Editor

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Job Track: Editor
Department: Editorial Services – Commercial
Reports To: Managing Editor

JOB PURPOSE
Working across Commercial, Consulting, and other Fishawack Health business units, the Editor ensures editorial excellence, content accuracy, and regulatory compliance on assigned brands.

Job Responsibilities

The Editor is responsible for maintaining quality and brand editorial style on assigned work in a fast-paced agency environment with multiple competing deadlines. Creates, maintains, and socializes brand stylebooks; editorially reviews and fact-checks; and liaises with team members to achieve project goals. Guides teammates on editorial matters, including training to brand style and advising on rhetorical decorum and credibility. Ensures projects are free of copy-based and data-visualization errors. Is an advanced user of MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat Reader, and PageProof. Assists on editorial projects outside of assigned accounts as needed. Understands industry and agency culture and protects projects from commonplace threats to quality. Exemplifies excellence by adhering to best practices and standard operating procedures (SOPs), increasing personal expertise independently, and undergoing internal training. Completes assignments by deadline; communicates with team members proactively, effectively, and collegially. Records time accurately and adheres to company policies.

RESPONSIBILITY

PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT

Stylebook Owner- Develops and maintains brand stylebook, socializing it to the rest of the team.

• Creates brand stylebook using Fishawack Health template
• Updates on an ongoing basis per client and MLR feedback on projects with clear versioning
• Socializes stylebook and solicits feedback from teammates
• Ensures deliverables adhere to stylebook
  

Editorial Authority- Reviews brand materials and other projects for correctness, factuality, sense, credibility, decorum, compliance, and style.

• Checks files to ensure correctness, factuality, sense, credibility, decorum, compliance, and adherence to the brand stylebook
• Demonstrates a mastery of different types of reviews (eg, cold reads, word-for-words, check changes, fact checks, QC reads) and understands when to employ various levels of editorial rigor
• Displays an understanding of promotional regulations, audience, purpose, and client goals and objectives
• Adheres to best practices and standard operating procedures
• Identifies efficiencies when editing and training colleagues
• Advises brand team, copywriters, and other colleagues on editorial topics
• Encourages colleagues to follow established SOPs, while remaining flexible to client and/or business needs
• Onboards new team members to the Commercial Content Process and advocates adherence to it
• Understands spheres of authority and agency-of-record (AOR) team RACI
  

Communication- Writes and speaks comprehensibly with colleagues and select client personnel.

• Maintains a professional tone and helpful demeanor in internal—and if necessary, external—interactions
• Provides clear, actionable feedback during editorial reviews
• Deals with challenges proactively and positively; values suggestions and constructive feedback
• Uses official communication channels as intended: Outlook, Teams, Workplace, Netsuite, etc.
  

CORE COMPETENCIES FOR THIS POSITION
(The behaviors, skills, and practices required to accomplish the objectives of this position and in the daily conduct of business.)

• Attention to Detail- Can locate and identify errors in documents and files at a rigorous level; excellent eye for consistency; deep knowledge of the English language; is fluent in AMA and AP styles, with the ability to find answers to stylistic questions; is adept at secondary research; is comfortable working at the computer on complicated documents for long periods while maintaining focus and rigor
• Executive Functioning -Is an integral and proactive member of the team; can be counted on to think through project complications collegially and own editorial workstreams in an integrated manner; works with project managers when deadlines conflict to achieve efficiency and proper resourcing; can handle multiple deadlines while maintaining focus to execute individual projects with excellence
• Diligence, Dependability, and Honesty -Adheres to processes necessary to achieve excellence; knows how to push back when quality is being threatened; is not afraid to say “no” when absolutely necessary; understands how errors are introduced and has a strong distaste for scenarios that make quality harder to achieve; measures performance against perfection, choosing expediency only when necessary; evaluates materials honestly and constructively; cares about team and business success and has a desire to help; accepts responsibility for mistakes and works to rectify them
• Time Management -Uses time effectively and efficiently; concentrates efforts on top priorities and seeks assistance when necessary; communicates with colleagues and solves problems proactively while avoiding unnecessary delays; accurately estimates length and difficulty of tasks; anticipates and adjusts for problems and roadblocks, actively and routinely evaluating upcoming work; offers to help on other projects when idle
  

CORE COMPETENCIES FOR ALL FISHAWACK POSITIONS

• Client Focus -Is dedicated to meeting and exceeding the expectations and requirements of clients; gets first-hand client information and uses it for improvements in services; acts with clients in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with clients and gains their trust and respect
• Functional/Technical Skills -Has the functional and technical knowledge, skills, and creativity to do the job at an extremely high level of accomplishment
• Ethics/Values/Integrity/Trust -Adheres to an appropriate and effective set of core values and beliefs during both good and bad times; acts in line with those values; acts in a direct and truthful way; can present the unvarnished truth in an appropriate and helpful manner; admits mistakes; doesn’t misrepresent him/herself for personal gain
  

INTERACTIONS (EXTERNAL)

INTERACTIONS (INTERNAL DEPARTMENTS)

• Platform Help Desks (PageProof)
• Client (rare)
• Copy
• Art
• Project Management
• Client Service
• Shared Solutions
• Other Staff, as needed
  

Required Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

(To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and ability required.)

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required, preferably in English

Experience

Proofreading or editing experience required; must be computer literate

Special

Knowledge/

Skills

• Proficiency in the use of MS Office, specifically Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
• Proficiency in internet and other secondary research tools; AMA style, Dorland’s, and PubMed preferred
• Familiarity with digital routing preferred
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision as part of a cross-functional team
• Must have access to a dependable form of transportation as well as a valid driver’s license to attend offsite training meetings
  

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