Job Order: 3600
Staff Representative: Tim Jadwin
Position: Proofreader/Senior Editor
Location: New York
Company Summary:
An accredited, full-service medical education company with an excellent work environment and top-notch client roster. They are involved in the research, design, and implementation of educational programs for health care professionals.
Description:
Job Function:
Edit rough or "finished" copy in manuscript form; proofread all agency promotional material at all stages of production, form concepts to mechanicals; work closely with traffic coordinators (and writers/art directors) to complete jobs accurately but expediently to meet designated deadlines. Act as a primary reader with Director of Editorial Services.
Job Responsibilities:
- As copy editor
- Prepare manuscripts for final typing
- Verify references
- Check direct quotations and paraphrased statements against the original proof source
- Make sure references are cited according to AMA style
- Correct grammatical, syntactical, spelling and typographical errors
- Question ambiguities and inconsistencies in copy style
- Add registered/trademarks, logos generics, copyrights, code numbers, dates, fair balance and warning statements required by individual clients and/or the FDA
- Review all corrections and suggested editorial changes with copywriter
- As proofreader
- Correct all typographical, spelling, grammatical and syntactical errors
- Check that all typeset copy corresponds exactly with final client-approved copy
- Check type style(s) for consistency and sense (correct size and boldness to correspond to emphasis in copy), use of upper and lower case, use of italics, placement of generics
- Be sure characters in type proofs are clean and properly aligned
- Proofread each job at every stage of development (initial concept copy and layout, full typed copy, reader’s proofs, graphics [including charts, tables and graphs] and copy placement in comps and mechanicals, engravings and blueprints)
- BA degree or equivalent experience
- Good communications skills
- Excellent organizational and analytical skills
