Senior Science Writer & Editor — Research Communications

Life Science Washington; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 104,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center seeks a Senior Science Writer/Editor to plan, write, edit, and finalize highly specialized scientific materials for publication, grant applications, and regulatory documents. You will translate complex findings for diverse audiences and work with multiple stakeholders to ensure quality and regulatory compliance.

You will manage literature reviews, generate scientific illustrations, and contribute to grant proposals and clinical protocols, collaborating with faculty

Qualifications

• Doctoral degree (PhD) in mathematics, computer science, biostatistics, statistics, epidemiology, immunology, or related field.
• 8–10 years' experience in grant proposal development, scientific writing, or journalism.
• Ability to define complex scientific concepts and words, and to prioritize and work with multiple projects at one time.
• Strong demonstrated technical writing and editing skills.
• Extensive familiarity with scientific and medical terminology, as well as scientific research methods.
• Experience with grant preparation, writing/editing scientific manuscripts, drafting of medical protocols, and preparation of documents in support of regulatory filings.
• Expertise in Word, EndNote, Adobe Acrobat, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Proficient in development of high-quality scientific graphics (Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop or equivalent).
• Skilled at conducting scientific literature reviews and distilling results into concise summaries of relevant information.
• Ability for quantitative analysis along with a basic understanding of statistics.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and experience working collaboratively with a diverse team across several disciplines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Prepare outlines for scientific manuscripts including drafting materials and methods sections in coordination with other authors and scientific staff involved in the study or trial.
• Produce high-quality figures, tables, and graphics for publications, progress reports, grant applications, presentations, and other program-level and study-specific documents.
• Copyedit and proofread scientific manuscripts and coordinate journal submission.
• Gain concurrence of authors on edited materials; make further revisions as required.
• Manage correspondence with journals related to pending manuscripts through submission and publication.
• Ensure adherence to publication compliance rules (e.g. NIH public access policy).
• Develop, review, and edit grant applications and grant-related documents such as annual progress reports (including human subjects and clinical trials documents), in partnership with faculty and study staff.
• Conduct specialized reviews of scientific literature to support grant proposals, scientific manuscripts, clinical protocols, and regulatory filings. Review professional journals and scientific literature to stay abreast of new requirements in technical writing field.
• Lead revisions to highly technical documents including grant proposals, manuscripts, book chapters, articles, reports, and presentations.
• Analyze, interpret, and distill information, and collaborate with faculty and staff to ensure creation of clear, factual, and appropriately concise documents.
• Translate complex scientific information to communicate research activities and results to lay audiences through program and lab websites, brochures, and other documents.
• Draft, edit, and conduct study-specific correspondence with funding and regulatory agencies and collaborators, as needed.
• Consult with project teams throughout the document development process as needed, including developing project timelines and ensuring that the content and format of all documents adhere to relevant guidelines and standards, are internally consistent, and are complete.
• Create and maintain reference libraries to support accurate and rigorous citation practices within scientific and technical documents.
• Review professional journals and books to stay abreast of new requirements in technical writing field.
• Provide and lead other writing and editing support as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Technical writing

Editing

Grant proposal development

Scientific literature reviews

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

EndNote

Word

PowerPoint

Excel

Adobe Acrobat

Education

PhD in mathematics, computer science, biostatistics, statistics, epidemiology, immunology, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Word

EndNote

Adobe Acrobat

PowerPoint

Excel

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Job description

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center seeks a Senior Science Writer/Editor to plan, write, edit, and finalize highly specialized scientific materials for publication, grant applications, and regulatory documents. You will translate complex findings for diverse audiences and work with multiple stakeholders to ensure quality and regulatory compliance.

You will manage literature reviews, generate scientific illustrations, and contribute to grant proposals and clinical protocols, collaborating with faculty