Junior Solutions Engineer
Process Street
Cloud
Associate Scientific Content Editor
WebMD
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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JuniorMid-Level
Tech Stack
Cloud
About the role
- Initiate production documents to include project features by adding appropriate sections and removing unnecessary ones
- Develop and format PowerPoint slide decks that supplement live and online educational content
- Generate tables and figures in PowerPoint from text-based educational content
- Provide instruction to graphics editors to create complicated figure recreations and illustrations
- Select images from our image database to augment educational content
- Identify the need to and obtain permission from copyright holders to republish images
- Perform quality control checks throughout the content development process to ensure completeness and consistency with product standards and requirements
- Facilitate hand-off of material from editorial to web producers and manage the staging review process
- Become familiar with house style guide/AMA style guide and editorial processes and procedures
- Ensure consistency and correctness in spelling, punctuation, grammar, syntax
- Revise scientific language for usage, flow, and clarity, ensuring facts, data, and scientific units have been used consistently
- Maintain friendly and productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Continuously identifying opportunities for process improvement
- Complete other responsibilities, as assigned
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in English or medical/science field, or related years of equivalent experience
- 1 to 2 years of editorial experience preferred, ideally in a medical communications agency, pharmaceutical company, or pharmaceutical advertising agency, and preferably Web-based
- Above average expertise using PowerPoint masters, applying animations, and formatting slides according to pre-specified template
- Highly skilled in using all features of PowerPoint and Microsoft Word
- Efficient capabilities for developing and editing Word documents and performing image searches
- Experience with print permissions and copyright requirements preferred
- Understanding of and familiarity with AMA style a plus
- Strong problem-solving skills to independently and quickly deal with unforeseen issues
- Excellent computer skills including working on shared networks and cloud-based systems
- High degree of proficiency using Microsoft Office suite required
- Experience with web-based data and document sharing sites and authoring tools (SharePoint Online, ReadCube, Accent Library) and project management applications a plus
- Experience with continuing medical education materials a plus
- Effective communicator, both verbally and in writing
- Strong team-building and interpersonal skills, and a cultural awareness
- Self-motivated, positive, critical thinker, with a willingness to accept varied assignments
- Comfortable in a highly deadline-driven environment, and able to pivot quickly between tasks and adapt to rapidly shifting priorities
- A technologically savvy individual who can easily pick up new software to use Medscape and WebMD applications and content development tools
- Willing to work overtime, as needed
