Assistant Editor

At MJH Life Sciences our success is measured by your success! If you set your standards high and want to contribute to a winning team, we’ll provide you with every opportunity to help grow our company and your career. Our associates come from all backgrounds, sharing one key quality: determination to succeed. We value being Service Focused, having a Passion for Winning, Innovation, Respect, Integrity, and Teamwork. Nothing means more to us than hiring people with these attributes. If you believe you’re right for the job, this is the place to prove it!

Psychiatric Times seeks a highly motivated assistant editor with top-notch writing and editing skills, capable of turning around professionally written articles that present evidence-based medical information and insights for an audience of psychiatric clinicians. An assistant editor should have excellent organizational skills and attention to detail, ideally with interest in health care/medical research and some news writing experience.

Requirements

ABOUT THE POSITION  

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences communications, medical journalism, writing, or a related field
• Ability to write both breaking news and longer feature stories
• Willing to grow skillset in digital content creation and distribution channels, SEO, writing and editing highly scientific data-driven material
• Strong interviewing, AMA editing, writing, communication, technical, and organizational skills
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects concurrently and meet strict deadlines to thrive in a fast-paced, fluid environment
• Attention to detail, persistence, and focus
• Able to use or quickly learn Microsoft Word, Excel, Adobe InCopy, Content Management System, iMovie, Garage Band, and other databases and programs
• Flexibility; can evolve in current role as needed and adapt to change
• Demonstrate the ability to identify and solve problems quickly, decisively, and independently
• Willingness to travel to and file written and video reports from medical conferences
  
  

Responsibilities

• Conduct clear oral and written communication with fellow associates and psychiatry's key opinion leaders (KOLs), including doctors, residents, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants
• Assist in managing engaging content for Psychiatric Times social media accounts (eg, Facebook, LinkedIn, and X)
• Conduct interviews that result in articles, podcasts, and videos
• Work with editorial team and clinicians to conceptualize, edit, and produce compelling digital and print media content
• Professionalism and ethics in all interactions with internal and external customers
• Share information and cooperate with team members
• Some travel to attend medical conferences
  
  

About The Company

At MJH Life Sciences our success is measured by your success! If you set your standards high and want to contribute to a winning team, we’ll provide you with every opportunity to help grow our company and your career. Our associates come from all backgrounds, sharing one key quality: determination to succeed. We value being Service Focused, having a Passion for Winning, Innovation, Respect, Integrity, and Teamwork. Nothing means more to us than hiring people with these attributes. If you believe you’re right for the job, this is the place to prove it!

For more than 20 years, MJH Life Sciences™ has established a reputation for embracing agility and offering relevant, practical information that meets the needs of our diverse audience. As the largest privately held medical media company in the United States, we provide integrated communication products, services, education, and research to professionals within health care, animal health, and industry sciences.

The ever-changing health care communications industry requires us to stay ahead of the curve to create new ways of improving quality of life through health care communications, live events and medical education. We offer our associates countless opportunities for on-the-job training and professional development, and the ability to make a difference in the health care industry. We strive to create a culture that values dedication, hard work, collaborative events and community involvement.

MJH Life Sciences provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. All employees of MJH Life Sciences are employed “At Will.” This means that either the employee or the Company is free to end the employment relationship at any time, for any reason, with or without cause and with or without notice.