Job Order: 5566
Staff Representative: Tim Jadwin
Position: Senior Editor
Location: New York
Company Summary:
A healthcare advertising company.
Description:
Position Summary
Senior editors review concepts, manuscripts, layouts, disk printouts, and bluelines.
Principal Responsibilities
- Reading for clarity, grammar, and spelling
- Proofreading
- Fact checking claims
- Conforming text to FDA regulations, American Medical Association style, and client style
- Senior editors should be a resource for editors, assistant editors, and proofreaders regarding general editorial matters (eg, consulting on issues of FDA regulations, style, and usage)
- Senior editors should lead by example
- Senior editors should be able to comprehend technical/scientific articles, and they should understand the reading level of the intended audience
- Senior editors are responsible for creating and maintaining a style/claims sheet for each of their products
- Proficiency in Word for Windows (PC)
- Flexible, creative problem solving
- Ability to deal with many varied personalities
- Ability to meet extremely tight deadlines (without compromising accuracy)
- Ability to juggle several projects at once
- In general, senior editors should be proactive, organized, and professional.
- Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Proven strong copyediting and proofreading skills
- Knowledge of AMA style and FDA regulations
- Ability to self-manage
- Comfort with client contact
- Preferred:
- Interest in managing other editorial staff
