Job Description

Location: Hybrid

Department: Assessment

Reports to: Director, Test Development

Exemption Status: Exempt

Job Summary:

The Assessment Editor at The American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) is responsible for conducting editorial tasks for various medical examinations and assessments to ensure their quality, integrity, and accuracy, including facilitating meetings with subject matter experts (SMEs). This role involves editing, revising, and finalizing complex written and graphic medical examination material. The Assessment Editor also collaborates with staff and SMEs to manage examination development and other ongoing projects.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Reviews and edits medical examination material, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and adherence to appropriate guidelines.
• Reviews examination content and provide suggestions to authors, medical editors, and staff.
• Maintains quality standards through finalizing examination material via rigorous editing, peer review, and application/publication review of complex written and graphic content.
• Works closely with staff and subject-matter experts (SMEs) to manage examination development projects, including the facilitation of annual in-person committee meetings and remote meetings throughout the year.
• Reviews and processes feedback, both longitudinal assessment item-level feedback and exam survey data, such that revisions can be made to improve content.
•  Provides technical advice through offering expertise and innovative solutions for content-related challenges. 
• Builds and maintains strong relationships with committee members and staff to achieve desired results.
• Assists in implementing departmental initiatives related to testing and assessment.
• Collaborates in the design, critique, and implementation of new or improved editorial processes and procedures.
• Maintains and updates the Editorial Manual, style guides, and other relevant documentation.

Other Functions:

• Collaborates in the onboarding and training of new SMEs.
• Maintains an orderly and efficient workflow.
• Assists with the assembly of copyright materials that comply with legal standards.
• Collaborates in problem-solving by analyzing, documenting, and resolving issues as they emerge.
• Represents the ABP when making presentations to stakeholders and other professional audiences (eg, ATP, ICE, ABMS Conference).
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• This role does not include supervisory responsibilities.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in English, journalism, or related field.
• Three (3) to five (5) years of professional editorial or related experience.
• Excellent writing skills, impeccable grammar, and attention to detail when revising and proofreading.
• Ability to synthesize complex medical information and apply edits during live or virtual meetings.
• Knowledge of or ability to learn medical terminology as well as approved conventions and styles (eg, AMA).
• Ability to communicate clearly and professionally.
• Ability to edit and modify still images and video.
• Strong organizational skills with demonstrated ability handle multiple, concurrent, and overlapping projects while meeting deadlines.
• Ability to process significant amounts of work with efficiency and accuracy.
• Excellent keyboarding skills.
• Ability to facilitate exam-related meetings with SMEs.
• Ability to collaborate with a team in pursuit of quality and continuous improvement.
• Proficiency in or ability to learn to utilize web-based item banking platforms (e.g., ExamDeveloper), test delivery platforms, project management software (e.g., Wrike), and AV equipment for running meetings.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 (eg, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint).
• Availability to provide email coverage, as needed, outside of regular office hours and, in rare cases, attend meetings outside of regular office hours.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a medical field or testing environment.
• Advanced skills using Microsoft Office 365 (eg, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint).
• Advanced skills using web-based item banking platforms (eg, ExamDeveloper), test delivery platforms, project management software (eg, Wrike), and AV equipment for running meetings

Special Requirement:

• Must be able to work onsite in Chapel Hill, NC, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Travel Required

Travel outside the ABP office is expected to be between 1-5% of the time.

This position is expected to be in-person at the ABP for specific meetings (eg, subboard and exam committee meetings, team building).

Work Environment:

The work environment is an office setting. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate. The environment is also temperature-controlled. This may vary if working from home.

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate with others. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, demonstrate hand and finger dexterity in the course of their work, handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.

The physical workload is expected to be: Sedentary work, as described below.

Sedentary Work : Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

This role is expected to use the following machines, tools, and equipment:

• Computer and associated equipment (eg, external monitors, mouse, printer, keyboard)
• Virtual meeting tools and software
• Meeting room AV systems

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