Medical Editor (Consultancy)

Background

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) provides life-saving emergency relief and longer-term medical care to some of the most vulnerable and excluded communities around the world. As an independent medical humanitarian organisation, we deliver care based only on need, regardless of ethnic origin, gender, religion, or political affiliation.

MSF has around 63,000 local and international staff working in over 70 countries, in some of the most challenging places in the world. Our medical humanitarian projects are supported by offices in 44 countries, including the UK and Ireland.

Current need

MSF UK’s medical team includes clinicians, epidemiologists, and social scientists who undertake operational research in the humanitarian settings in which we work. Publication of MSF research is crucial to share knowledge and drive progress.

We require a medical editor to support MSF subject matter experts (SME) in preparing research manuscripts for publication ensuring accuracy, consistency, and coherence. Substantive structural editing, copy editing, and proofreading are often required.

Expected results

Production of accurate, well-structured, and timely articles published in the most relevant journals and publications.

Deliverables

• Editorial review of documents including copy editing to style guidelines and publication requirements with a focus on grammar and tone.
• Application of structural editing techniques to improve writing flow and shape manuscripts into cohesive and compelling pieces ensuring readability and impact of the text.
• High-quality proofreading before submission to journals.
• Effective use of tracked changes feature to mark-up edits.
• Creative suggestions made for formatting materials to make content informative and engaging.
• Support provided for tagging and formatting references to meet publication requirements.

Profile of consultant:

To be successful, you will:

• Hold a scientific background with a degree in the life sciences.
• Possess previous medical editing experience, ideally within scientific publications.
• Demonstrate familiarity with humanitarian terminology and concepts.
• Demonstrate excellent copy-editing and English language skills.
• Demonstrate excellent writing skills.
• Exhibit excellent attention to detail.
• Demonstrate knowledge of specialist referencing software such as EndNote.
• Exhibit excellent time management skills with a proven ability to forecast and manage workload.
• Showcase excellent inter-personal and communication skills.
• Commitment to the aims of MSF.

How to apply

To be submitted:

In your proposal, we would ask you to submit:

1. Your proposal, including methodology.
2. What you see as being in/out of scope.
3. Assumptions made, questions, or areas of uncertainty.
4. Examples of previous work - give a summary of similar work that you have developed and delivered before- what worked well? what lessons you learnt?
5. CV
6. Total fee proposal

Deadline: 2nd February 2025, 23:59

For further questions, please contact: admin.mu@london.msf.org