Copy Editor

Job Title: Copyeditor 

Reports to: Editorial Director 

Location: Homebased, USA 

Job Status: Full-time, Exempt

Summary:

Clinical Education Alliance (CEA) is a global leader in providing innovative and impactful healthcare education, insights and communications, empowering healthcare professionals with the tools and resources they need to stay current and improve patient outcomes. CEA sets the standard for professional development with its commitment to scientific rigor, innovative formats, sophisticated marketing to drive healthcare professional awareness, and engagement techniques grounded in adult learning principles. With its expansive reach across the healthcare team, CEA drives healthcare excellence across the care continuum.

The Copyeditor plays a pivotal role in ensuring accuracy, consistency, and on-time delivery of content. The primary task of this role is copyediting faculty-developed or CEA staff–developed content following the CEA/AMA style guide and consists of identifying and correcting spelling mistakes, typos, grammatical errors, and inconsistencies. The Copyeditor also reviews content for flow, medical terminology accuracy, requirements for other teams, design elements in tables and figures, and other elements specific to different activity models. The Copyeditor may be called upon to support additional tasks of the company, as requested by the Editorial Director or Copy Manager.

Responsible for:

•    Copyedit various medical-/scientific-focused materials: manuscripts/modules for online posting, PowerPoint slidesets, grants, conference materials, print and digital content, marketing materials, outcomes reports, etc

•    Copyedit content to ensure it meets the CEA standards and style guide

•    Exhibit flexibility in level of copyediting to adjust for intended audience (eg, patient-focused materials, supporters, different therapeutic areas) and deliverable type (eg, slidesets, modules, commentaries, marketing emails)

•    Provide recommendations to improve clarity in communication

•    Obtain a working knowledge of specific terminology among different therapeutic areas by researching the literature, respected associations, or AMA Manual of Style or by collaborating with Scientific Directors and document the findings

•    Follow good publishing practices

•    Work closely with Editorial Director, Copy Manager, Program Directors, Scientific Directors to prioritize workload to ensure all deadlines are met

•    Use available resources to verify faculty information 

•    Proactively identify and resolve issues with appropriate team members

•    Communicate easily and effectively across all levels of the organization

•    Work closely with Scientific Directors, Program Directors, Designers, Grants team, Production team, and other team members to ensure materials are of the highest quality in terms of accuracy, clarity, and readability

•    Provide suggested updates to the CEA style guide

CEA Core Values 

Innovation – Creating, Leading Edge, Unique  

•    Seeks to understand new ideas and how they tactically apply to the role

•    Requires supervision support

Passion – Driven, Focused  

•    Seeks to understand the role and how it fits into the mission

Integrity – Credibility, Fairness, Quality, Accuracy, Trustworthiness  

•    Takes responsibility for tasks assigned and seeks to complete them to the best of one's ability in the allotted hours and records in NetSuite

•    Demonstrates an ability to understand the project goals and seeks to align tasks to complete

•    Accepts feedback and takes ownership to adapt work efforts to changing priorities

•    Communicates information effectively with manager and shared team members to complete tasks

Team – Alliance of thoughtful people driven by our core values  

•    Develops working relationships with the team to help support the team

Job Performance Measurements This position will be measured on:

•    Achieve identified efficiency ratio: % of Hours Required to Complete Activities vs % of Hours assigned for those Activities. Goal = 100%; Minimum threshold: 90% of Target

•    Achieve identified on-time delivery %: % of Activities the employee is assigned that are delivered on or before

the “to CMT” date in Mission Control. Goal = 100%; Minimum threshold: Greater than 85%.

•    Grant turnaround time within identified # of days: Goal = 3 days or less; Minimum threshold: Greater than 90%.

Job Requirements:

•    BA degree in English, Literature, or Communications preferred

•    3-5 years of experience in a medical education, communications, or publishing company

•    Proficiency in AMA Manual of Style and the ability to incorporate company-specific and activity-specific style requirements

•    Acute attention to detail

•    Ability to meet aggressive deadlines without sacrificing quality of work

•    Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Microsoft Teams, Adobe Acrobat, Outlook

•    Experience in online routing systems a plus

•    Experience in content management systems a plus