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Job Description:

• Prepares content for scientific conferences, presentations, and multiple audiences; including assembling and organizing data into text and figures for scientific presentations, publications, grant applications, reports, newsletters, and websites. 
• Corresponds with editors and professional staff of scientific journals to ensure manuscript submission requirements are met and submissions for publication are complete.
• Partners with and mentors lab members to shepherd scientific articles to publication. 
• Participate in lab meetings and scientific discussions.
• Determines, researches, verifies, writes and edits publications, which often includes technical/scientific material for manuals or journals.
• Uses broad knowledge of writing to write in-depth pieces relating to specialized field (e.g. scientific writing).
• Performs other related work as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

Education:

• Masters Degree or Ph.D. in the health or social sciences.

Preferred Competencies

• Excellent writing skills; able to produce clear, compelling, and eloquent text.
• Superb organizational skills.
• Excellent editing and proofreading skills.
• Must be able to translate difficult science concepts for multiple audiences.
• Must be flexible and able to drive deadline-driven projects to completion.
• Must be able to work independently and as part of a team.
• Must be able to coordinate work by numerous contributors and manage complex processes.
• Must be advanced user of Microsoft Office and EndNote.

Application Documents

• Resume/CV (required)
• Cover Letter (required)

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