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The Associate Medical Editor is a licensed oncology registered nurse, preferably with a master’s degree and oncology certification. The Associate Medical Editor performs literature searches, writes, reviews, and edits evidence-based cancer information tailored to multiple literacy levels and audience needs that covers the trajectory of care from risk and prevention to diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, and end-of-life. This role requires great attention to detail and follow-up, ensuring cancer information is current, accurate, evidence-based, understandable, and actionable. Serves as a knowledgeable oncology clinician and patient care resource for the organization.
This position plays a key role in the creation of accurate, relevant, and timely medical content, which is critical to protecting organizational reputation, ensuring compliance, and reducing risk.

This is a remote position

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Develops, reviews, updates, and edits cancer information, ensuring all content reflects current and emerging evidence, is accurate and understandable, aligns with ACS and other clinical guidelines, and reflects the ACS mission. (75%)

Analyzes and consistently improves readability of ACS medical content, regularly applyingadult learning and health equity principles and health literacy best practices.(5%)

Uses data reports to lead and manage assigned print-based patient education projects and serves as liaison with inventory teams and vendors.(5%)

Maintains editorial integrity of content, applying and ensuring consistency with accessibility standards, applicable ACS messaging, guidelines, policies, and processes.(5%)

Provides as-needed support for constituent-related requests, responding to cancer-related inquiries escalated from the Cancer Helpline (NCIC) and Customer Experience teams.(5%)

Acts as consultant and collaborative, clinicalresource for mission priorities, partnerships, and special projects and content review requests.(5%)

EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS:

Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor's Degreein nursing

Preferred Degree: Master's Degreein nursing

Required License(s):Active, unrestrictedRN license

Preferred Certification(s): Oncology certification (OCN, AOCN, etc.) or eligibility for exam

Years of experience: 5+ years in clinical oncology nursing practice

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITY:

Knowledge of clinical oncology and evidence-based medicine, including cancer risk, prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship, along with end-of-life issues.

Clinical experience administering cancer treatments, providing verbal and written patient education, and directly managing the care and treatment side effects of people with cancer throughout the continuum of care, with an understanding of current and emerging therapies, clinical pathways, guidelines, and standards of care.

Knowledge of current clinical oncology trends, health policy, and public health initiatives and issues.

Ability to perform literature searches and apply findings to content development and review.

Demonstrated ability to develop original patient education materials, communicating complex medical/scientific information in plain language, applying health literacy best practices, adult learning principles,health equity considerations, needs of special populations in content development and review.

Working knowledge of AMA writing style and referencing standards.

Knowledge of the issues and potential impacts of applying artificial intelligence (AI) and search engine optimization (SEO) in content work.

Ability to complete assigned projectswith attention to detail, adhering to ACS processes and timelines,

*This is a remote position*

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS:

This is a remote position

Associate Medical Editor at American Cancer Society