[Hiring] Senior Medical Editor and Project Manager @Cleveland Clinic

Role Description

Join the Cleveland Clinic team, where you will work alongside passionate caregivers and provide patient-first healthcare. As a Senior Medical Editor and Project Leader, you will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the development, management, and production of medical and scientific enduring materials and continuing medical education (CME) activities.

• Edit, generate galley proofs, correspond with stakeholders (physicians and other health care professionals), coordinate revisions and approvals and prepare final proofs.
• Edit timely review articles and other content with a continuing-education orientation for Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine’s physician audience.
• Ensure content quality, accuracy and consistency with editorial and departmental style guidelines.
• Verify manuscript references, data, author financial disclosures, continuing medical education requirements and compliance with copyright regulations (including securing permissions as needed).
• Proofread article layouts in the final stages of production.
• Research topics and perform reference and data verification as required.
• Select, create, or coordinate the development of accompanying graphics, illustrations, tables, charts and videos in collaboration with authors, medical illustrators and web designers.
• Manage correspondence with authors and communicate peer review results, resolving conflicts as needed.
• Use online manuscript submission and peer-review system (Editorial Manager) to secure quality peer reviews.
• Participate in the acquisition of physician-authored submissions.
• Coordinate, maintain and monitor editorial schedules and deadlines.
• Manage multiple projects and tasks to meet deadlines.
• In collaboration with department leadership, develop budgets and project proposals as needed.
• Provide project management and editorial support for departmental initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in English, Journalism, Communications, or other relevant field and five years of applicable experience in medical publishing OR 10 years of applicable experience in medical publishing
• Experience in the development of medical, scientific and educational materials
• Strong editing and writing skills
• Demonstrated medical and/or scientific editing and writing ability
• Ability to understand and distill medical research
• Proficient in online medical resource use
• Ability to manage freelancers (editors and writers), designers and production people
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office programs, in particular Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Medical publishing experience

Requirements

• Medical editing and computer skills
• Experience using InDesign

Benefits

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• Cleveland Clinic Benefits

Physical Requirements

• Requires ability to travel throughout the hospital to attend meetings.
• Requires ability to operate computer and other office equipment.
• Requires ability to create and edit documents.

Personal Protective Equipment

Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required for procedures.