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The Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) is a not-for-profit membership organization that promotes the health of women and newborns. Our mission is to empower and support nurses caring for women, newborns, and their families through research, education, and advocacy.

The Manager of Editorial and Publication Services leads the editorial development, production, and quality assurance of the organization's educational, clinical, research, and professional practice resources. This position ensures all publications are evidence-based, accurate, consistent with organizational standards, and aligned with the organization's strategic priorities.

The Manager oversees the complete editorial lifecycle for print and digital publications while collaborating with nursing subject matter experts, instructional designers, learning management system (LMS) staff, project managers, marketing, and external publishing partners. This position also leads continuous improvement initiatives that enhance readability, consistency, accessibility, and the overall quality of the organization's educational resources

Editorial Leadership

• Develop, implement, and maintain editorial policies, procedures, style guides, and writing standards specific to the organization's educational, clinical, research, and professional practice resources.
• Establish a consistent editorial voice across all educational and publication resources while maintaining alignment with organizational branding. Ensure publications adhere to evidence-based standards, editorial best practices, accessibility guidelines, and organizational quality expectations. Lead editorial quality assurance for print, digital, online learning, and multimedia educational products.
• Review complex manuscripts for organization, readability, and clinical accuracy
• Partner with Education, Research, Clinical Practice, Marketing, Membership, Meetings, and Digital teams to support organizational initiatives.
• Collaborate with journal editorial offices, publishing partners, and vendors to ensure consistency across organizational publications.
• Support dissemination of research and evidence-based resources through multiple communication channels.

Quality Improvement

• Monitor publication metrics and recommend improvements to editorial processes.
• Evaluate new editorial technologies, publishing platforms, and workflow efficiencies.
• Implement continuous quality improvement initiatives to enhance productivity and publication quality.

Financial and Vendor Management

• Assist in developing and managing publication budgets.
• Assist in the management of relationships with freelance editors, copyeditors, designers, printers, and production vendors.
• Review vendor performance and ensure contractual deliverables are met.

Leadership Expectations

Provides ongoing professional mentoring, supports the expansion of learning, and provides tools to build knowledge, skills, and growth capacity. Serves as an educational resource for new and current staff. Promotes a positive work environment for all staff and collaborates with the leadership team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in English, Journalism, Communications, Publishing, Nursing, Health Sciences, or a related field. (Required)

• Master’s degree in communications, Publishing, Nursing, Healthcare Administration, or a related discipline. (Preferred)

• Equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

• Five or more years of progressively responsible editorial or publishing experience.

• Experience managing multiple publication projects from concept through production.

• Experience editing technical, scientific, healthcare, or educational materials.

• Experience developing editorial standards or style guides.

• Experience working with volunteer authors, editorial boards, or subject matter experts.

• Experience with online learning and educational publishing strongly preferred.

• Familiarity with learning management systems and eLearning platforms preferred.

• Experience in an association, nonprofit, academic, healthcare, or medical publishing environment preferred.

• Strong editorial judgment and exceptional attention to detail.

• Advanced copyediting and proofreading skills.

• Knowledge of publishing standards, copyright, permissions, and editorial ethics.

• grammar, consistency, and instructional effectiveness.

• Ensure consistency across educational products while recognizing the distinct writing needs of clinician learners versus scholarly publications.

• Maintain editorial calendars and publication schedules to meet organizational priorities and deadlines.

• Develop and maintain editorial policies, procedures, templates, and style manuals.

Publication Management

• Collaborate with NERP team members on the production of books, toolkits, guidelines, position statements, educational resources, online learning materials, and other publications.

• Oversee manuscript tracking from submission through final publication.

• Collaborate with designers, printers, digital publishing vendors, and technology partners to ensure timely production.

• Ensure publications comply with copyright, permissions, licensing, and intellectual property requirements.

• Support digital publishing initiatives and emerging publication technologies.

• Ensure educational content is written appropriately for practicing clinicians using principles of adult learning and health literacy.

• Support quality assurance testing for digital learning products to ensure editorial consistency, functionality, and learner experience.

Project Management

• Lead multiple publication projects simultaneously while managing competing priorities and deadlines.

• Collaborate in the development of project timelines, budgets, and resource plans.

• Ensure projects are completed on schedule and within budget.

• Monitor project milestones and communicate progress to stakeholders.

• Identify risks and implement mitigation strategies to maintain publication schedules.

Project Management

• Lead multiple publication projects simultaneously while managing competing priorities and deadlines.

• Collaborate in the development of project timelines, budgets, and resource plans.

• Ensure projects are completed on schedule and within budget.

• Monitor project milestones and communicate progress to stakeholders.

• Identify risks and implement mitigation strategies to maintain publication schedules.

Author and Volunteer Support

• Serve as the primary editorial contact for volunteer authors, reviewers, editors, clinical experts and internal staff.

• Provide guidance on manuscript preparation, editorial standards, and publication requirements.

• Coach authors on effective educational writing techniques and adapting clinical expertise into learner-centered educational materials.

• Develop author resources, writing guides, templates, and editorial tools that improve efficiency and consistency.

• Conduct educational workshops and training sessions on writing for educational publications, effective slide development, plain language, assessment writing, and editorial standards.

• Mentor authors throughout manuscript development and revision.

• Coordinate peer review and revision processes.

• Foster productive relationships with interdisciplinary contributors and external partners.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Education, Research, Clinical Practice, Marketing, Membership, Meetings, and Digital teams to support organizational initiatives.

• Collaborate with journal editorial offices, publishing partners, and vendors to ensure consistency across organizational publications.

• Support dissemination of research and evidence-based resources through multiple communication channels.

Quality Improvement

• Monitor publication metrics and recommend improvements to editorial processes.

• Evaluate new editorial technologies, publishing platforms, and workflow efficiencies.

• Implement continuous quality improvement initiatives to enhance productivity and publication quality.

Financial and Vendor Management

• Assist in developing and managing publication budgets.

• Assist in the management of relationships with freelance editors, copy editors, designers, printers, and production vendors.

• Review vendor performance and ensure contractual deliverables are met.

Benefits

HOW TO APPLY

Please submit your resume, cover letter, and desired salary to recruitment@awhonn.org.

Incomplete application submissions will not be considered.

AWHONN provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Salary Range- $75,000 - $83,000