Content Editing Associate - Editorial Assistant

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Location:

Our office is located in Waltham, MA, but options for working remotely are available.

Responsibilities:

We are searching for a Content Editing Associate to join our editorial team. The position requires an individual with very strong organization, communication, and time management skills, as well as someone with close attention to detail and excellent proofreading skills. Prior medical experience and medical knowledge are not required.

The main tasks of the Content Editing Associate are as follows:

• Excellent proofreading, communication, time management, and organization skills.
• Addressing all editorial tasks in a timely manner.
• Maintaining frequent contact and developing relationships with external specialty authors, editors, and peer reviewers.
• Incorporating contributor revisions for specialty DEs to review
• Reviewing and tracking graphics, and coordinating with Graphics and Permissions teams
• Ferrying content through the editorial process, including:
• Editorial experience is a plus, but not necessary.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Styling and formatting original manuscripts
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Preparing for and leading specialty meetings with DEs in order to review the current status of the specialty's pending items and discuss next steps.
• Carefully tracking progress toward annual goals and providing accurate monthly reports to indicate completed and in-process work.
• Working closely with one or two physician deputy editors (DEs) to drive progress in an assigned medical specialty.
• Carefully documenting content developments and workflows in the proper databases.
• Sending content to a variety of external contributors for review; setting deadlines and following up to ensure timely responses
• Proofreading, checking links and references, and finalizing topics and graphics for publication; ensuring content is error-free and consistent with UpToDate's style guidelines.