Editorial Assistant

Status:
Full time |
Home-based in Canada

About PVI

PVI provides continuing medical education (CME) and professional development activities targeted at local, regional, and national levels. By leveraging innovation in educational design and application of adult learning principles, we strive to be a trusted partner in reducing professional practice gaps and fostering continuous professional development. Driving improvements in a range of clinical practice and process areas and encompassing interdisciplinary and systems approaches to disease prevention and patient diagnosis and management, we aim to improve patient outcomes by impacting those professionals in active patient care roles.

PVI measures the success of educational interventions on the basis of their demonstrated impact on reducing the professional practice discrepancies.

Description

The Editorial Assistant performs a variety of editorial tasks, including slide formatting, preparing content to be redrawn by graphic designers, and preparing of content for production, for continuing medical education activities for a variety of therapeutic audiences. The ideal candidate for this entry-level position has an excellent command of the English language, superior Microsoft Word and PowerPoint skills, the ability to understand scientific or medical content, and a desire to develop higher-level editorial skills.

Successful candidates will be able to juggle a variety of tasks in a fast-paced, home-based environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Format slides for live, virtual, and enduring continuing medical education activities
• Prepare and review materials for narration, audiovisual editing, or graphic design
• Coordinate with managing editors and production team to handle a variety of tasks necessary to launch virtual, live, and enduring activities
• Develop and maintain knowledge of the rules and regulations that govern medical education and continuing professional development (eg, ACCME) and internal style requirements (eg, AMA, internal style guide)

Qualifications

• Experience as a proofreader, fact checker, copy editor, or production editor is preferred
• An undergraduate degree in science, communications, or journalism
• Proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Word, and familiarity with Adobe Acrobat Professional
• Ability to handle a variety of tasks for continuing medical education activities in various stages of development, while maintaining high standards of quality
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team