Job Title
Special Project Editor, McMahon Group
Full Time, New York City
Job Description:
Special Editions/Projects
- Excellent content editing, writing, proofreading, fact checking, and copyediting skills (proficiency in AMA style)
- Assign, evaluate, and content edit physician-authored review articles for an audience of healthcare professionals
- Ensure accuracy, general flow of content, grammar, comprehensiveness, etc.
- Revise or rewrite manuscripts or portions of manuscripts as necessary
- Identify appropriate therapeutic topics that have clinical relevance to readers and are commercially viable
- Effectively communicate with thought leaders in person, on the phone, and in writing
- Coordinate all editorial aspects of annual publication from assignment through bluelines
- Interact with sales, copyediting, design, and production departments, as well as pharmaceutical industry clients if appropriate
- Effectively translate dense clinical information into concise, reader-friendly formats (eg, figures, tables, wall charts)
- Convert educational review articles into additional formats (eg, industry-sponsored pocket guides, wall charts, etc)
- Provide suggestions to design team regarding layout and artwork
- Meet with editorial board members annually (individually or as a group)
- Coordinate, conduct, and report on focus panel sessions with clinicians
- Analyze competing publications for insight into market, ideas for new features and projects, etc
- Efficiently manage multiple projects
- Working knowledge of Quark Xpress
- Open to occasional domestic travel and weekend work as necessary
CME Specific
- At least 3 years of continuing medical education experience
- Excellent content editing, writing, proofreading, fact checking, and copyediting skills (proficiency in AMA style)
- Assign, evaluate, and content edit comprehensive medical education manuscripts authored by freelance scientific writers or medical experts
- Ensure accuracy, general flow of content, fair balance, grammar, etc.
- Revise or rewrite manuscripts or portions of manuscripts as necessary
- Effectively communicate with thought leaders in person, on the phone, and in writing
- Experience in conducting literature searches and interpreting statistical data analyses
- Interact with sales, CME, copyediting, design, and production departments, as well as freelance medical writers
- Efficiently manage multiple projects
- Conversant in ACCME standards
- Working knowledge of Quark Xpress and PowerPoint
- Projects include needs assessment, primary manuscripts (including monographs, pocket guides, wall charts), slide presentations, live meetings, and new media
- Open to occasional domestic travel and weekend work as necessary
Contact Patti Dickens, pdickens@mcmahonmed.com
