Copy Editor
New opportunity! ClinicalMind is a full-service Medical Communications Company with extensive experience in specialty therapeutic areas. We offer unique, cutting-edge live and digital initiatives designed to integrate, support, and enhance our client objectives and drive additional engagement with key customers.
ClinicalMind’s talented team defines our company. Anyone who works in this business knows that their success is based on one thing above all else – the people. Come join a growing Medical Communications Agency!
Job Summary
The Copy Editor is responsible for ensuring the accuracy, clarity, and compliance of all content. Primary responsibilities include traditional editorial duties to polish and refine various types of content and communications, ensuring they meet the highest AMA and brand/company standards. Additionally, the role involves developing and implementing editorial and content strategies.
Job Responsibilities and Skills
- Develop and implement editorial and content strategy for our clients and the CM/Sensified brand, working closely with our account teams and our medical/copywriters
- Occasionally join client meetings to present copy strategy as needed and interpret feedback from medical, legal, and regulatory review teams to identify what type of editorial or content support is needed
- Perform quality assurance checks (QCs) for project deliverables, ensuring content is strategically sound, error-free, and high-quality from the beginning to end of the project lifecycle/throughout each phase of content development
- Track project timelines and be able to proactively communicate reasonable turnaround times for client teams
- Ensure consistency and alignment with client and Sensified content standards and best practices, including individual pharma/med device standards, AMA style, and accessibility
- Ensure branded and unbranded pieces employ patient-facing and inclusive, bias-free language
- Support a variety of projects and campaigns, including writing/editing taglines, direct mail copy, website copy, video scripts, and more
- Perform in-depth reference checks and ensuring references are formatted according to AMA and brand standards
- Verify and fact-check new content and references
- Ensure all client-provided content and markups are carried through consistently throughout rounds of revision
- Work with a variety of teams to accurately communicate changes to materials
- Support new hire content team training, including but not limited to overviews of content development request form, copy blueprints, references, how to QC, and content process document
- Proactively work with Operations to define and establish processes, standards, and protocols related to improving and maintaining content integrity and thoroughness
- Able to maintain and follow internal and client-specific editorial style guidelines
Minimum Qualifications
- Possess a willingness and ability to learn the big picture and nuances of projects, including but not limited to purpose, strategy, tone, brand guidelines, and style guidelines
- Able to keep track of ever-changing content and design standards across brands to ensure consistency in branded materials
- Able to maintain and follow internal and client-specific editorial style guidelines
- Able to assist with social listening efforts, including but not limited to: maintaining familiarity with healthcare industry trends, and movements of client brand competitors
- Make positive workplace culture a priority
Disclaimer
ClinicalMind provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.