• Leading National Health and Education member-based organisation
• Full time, permanent opportunity, Melbourne / Sydney location and WFH options
• $131,877 p.a. plus 14% Superannuation and 17.5% annual leave loading

About the RACGP

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) is the voice of general practitioners (GPs) in our growing cities and throughout rural and remote Australia. For more than 60 years, we’ve supported the backbone of Australia’s health system by setting the standards for education and practice and advocating for better health and wellbeing for all Australians.

We foster the future of general practice through our profession-led, community-based training model for the Australian General Practice Training Program and other training pathways. We train GPs to deliver quality, whole-person care to patients across Australia, support their ongoing professional development and provide a point of connection for GPs serving communities in every corner of the country.
We’re committed to diversity and social inclusion and encourage applications from people who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. If you require any support or adjustments to participate in any stage of our recruitment process, please let us know in your application.

About you

As our Publications Manager, you’ll have significant editing experience, preferably in a healthcare, medical or scientific environment, with the ability to determine quality, evidence-based sources and their use to support clinical decision-making. Your exceptional oral and written communication skills, attention to detail and accuracy, along with you highly developed interpersonal skills, will ensure you can effectively liaise and communicate with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to meet content and production deadlines.

To thrive in this role, you’ll have:

• An undergraduate degree in communications, editing or a related field with extensive experience managing production and editorial processes for multiple titles, and medical editing experience as an editor in a scholarly publishing environment
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with permissions and copyright
• Comprehension of technical and medical literature; knowledge of medical terminology and clinical guidelines
• Business level skills in Microsoft Office applications, with knowledge of publishing software

About the opportunity

Reporting to the Head of Marketing and Commercial, you’ll lead a team of high performing editors to provide editorial support to the RACGP in the production of the Australian Journal of General Practice (AJGP), check, standards, guidelines and other member resources. You’ll oversee the strategic development and planning of content, ensuring the timely production of these publications to specified timelines and in line with correct policy and procedure, brand voice and house style, while editing to a high standard.

In addition, you’ll:

• Plan, develop, edit and fact-check medical content in check to ensure it is clinically appropriate, relevant and confirms to high editorial and ethical standards
• Manage copyright assignments and associated paperwork, oversee author review, approvals and corrections for AJGP and check ensuring permissions for all tables, figures, illustrations, photographs and excerpts are received and documented prior to publication
• Ensure materials in core publications and RACGP products comply with copyright and other relevant laws and regulations; including Committee of Publications Ethics (COPE) and Medicines Australia Code of Conduct.
• Provide publishing advice to internal stakeholders to assist in the development of RACGP products according to RACGP standards.
• Ensure efficiency, quality and accuracy in publication of RACGP products through advising and mentoring of editorial staff.

The Benefits

• 14% superannuation
• Additional leave over the Christmas and New Year period
• 17.5% annual leave loading for EA employees
• Hybrid working arrangements
• The Core Academy
• High-profile health and education organisation where progressive leadership, innovation integrity, collaboration and accountability are valued.

To apply

Click on the ‘Apply Now’ button to submit your CV and cover letter as one document.

Please apply as soon as possible as we will be reviewing applications as they are submitted, and interviews will commence with suitable applicants who have applied.

Towards the end of the process, applicants will be asked to complete pre-employment screening, which may include reference checks and/or a National Police Check. Applicants must have the right to work in Australia.

For a copy of the position description, visit https://www.racgp.org.au/the-racgp/careers/position-descriptions

RACGP internal applicants, please notify your current manager of your application for any internal RACGP opportunities.

We respectfully will not be accepting any applications from recruitment agencies for this role.

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