Editorial Lifecycle Editor – Military Health Communications

Fidelity Partners; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 49,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity Partners is seeking an Authored Works Review Editor for the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, to oversee editorial lifecycle management of public-facing content for the Defense Health Agency. The role emphasizes accuracy, AP styling, and HIPAA compliance in a high-visibility healthcare/public affairs environment.

The position requires five years of editing experience, a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, and the ability to coordinate with medical and

Qualifications

• Must have at least five years of professional editing, copyediting, or technical-writing experience.
• Must demonstrate exceptional command of English grammar, punctuation, and Associated Press style.
• Must have experience in healthcare communications, military public affairs, or a similar regulated, high-visibility environment.
• Must understand and rigorously apply HIPAA and Protected Health Information requirements.
• Must have experience managing editorial calendars, multi-author publications, document reviews, and approval workflows.
• Must demonstrate meticulous attention to detail, sound editorial judgment, and a strong commitment to accuracy and source verification.
• Must satisfy all Tier II background, CAC, training, NDA, network-access, onboarding, and facility-access requirements.

Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end editorial lifecycle for public-facing articles, reports, web content, publications, and leadership messaging.
• Develop and maintain an editorial calendar and track documents through drafting, review, revision, clearance, and final release.
• Edit and proofread content for clarity, accuracy, organization, grammar, punctuation, tone, and compliance with Associated Press style.
• Apply command style guides, DHA and military requirements, and approved editorial standards consistently across written products.
• Conduct rigorous fact-checking and verify sources, claims, statistics, medical information, names, titles, and organizational details.
• Coordinate with authors, clinical and administrative subject matter experts, legal counsel, public affairs staff, and leadership to resolve comments and obtain approvals.
• Develop, maintain, and enforce an organizational style guide that supports a consistent and professional command voice.
• Identify unclear, unsupported, conflicting, sensitive, or noncompliant content and return it with specific corrective guidance.
• Protect HIPAA-regulated information, PHI, PII, and other sensitive information throughout the editorial and release process.
• Package finalized materials and manage the clearance process before presenting products to the senior Public Affairs Officer for approval.
• Complete required orientation, annual training, security awareness, HIPAA training, and other Government-directed training and comply with all WRNMMC and DHA policies and procedures.

Skills

Editing experience

AP style

Editorial calendars

Attention to detail

Source verification

Healthcare comms

HIPAA knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, English

Job description

Fidelity Partners is seeking an Authored Works Review Editor for the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, to oversee editorial lifecycle management of public-facing content for the Defense Health Agency. The role emphasizes accuracy, AP styling, and HIPAA compliance in a high-visibility healthcare/public affairs environment.

The position requires five years of editing experience, a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, and the ability to coordinate with medical and