COPY EDITOR

Company Overview:

About Palladium - Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value.  We work with governments, businesses, and investors to solve the world's most pressing challenges. With a team of more than 3,000 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of over 35,000 experts, we help improve economies, societies and, most importantly, people's lives. 

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Project Overview and Role:

USAID’s ProtectHealth project, led by Palladium and in collaboration with other USAID implementing partners, is supporting the Government of the Philippines (GPH) to enhance access and financing to meet key family planning (FP), tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS outcomes while realizing its goal of achieving universal health care (UHC). USAID’s ProtectHealth is specifically supporting the GPH’s implementation of the UHC Law by addressing policy and institutional bottlenecks within the health financing system.
The project provides technical assistance (TA) to enable the GPH to rapidly and effectively enact reforms envisioned under the new legislation on UHC. Specifically, USAID’s ProtectHealth helps enable the implementation of key reforms to sustain financing of TB, FP and HIV services, improve the utilization of such benefits and increase financial protection by providing the best available evidence and convening decision-makers at critical points in the policy process.

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

Scope of Work

To ensure quality delivery of technical products, the Copy Editor will provide appropriate, timely and relevant support to the Communication Specialist in copy editing technical documents and reports as well as information, education, and communication (IEC) materials developed by the project. To be able to provide quality editing tasks in a timely manner, the Copy Editor shall coordinate with the Communication Specialists in the delivery of revisions of technical products for dissemination.
Duties and Responsibilities

Regular coordination, updating with the Communication Specialist on copy editing tasks, and deliverables.
Thorough review and copy editing of technical documents, reports, and IEC materials, including fact sheets, briefers, social media posts, success stories, Palladium and USAID Newsletters, and technical volumes and scientific journals.
Provide appropriate editorial input, such as correct usage, grammar, style, and spell checking following Chicago Manual of Style, as well as provide thorough review of details and inputs such as, but not limited to laws, names of public officials and acronyms.
Review and apply Branding and Marking Guidelines in copy editing work.

Required Qualifications:

 Education:
A degree in communications, journalism or related field required.
Experience:
At least three years of experience in communications, public relations or journalism required.
Experience in writing, editing, and copy editing technical assistance products, and communication materials.
Experience working in USAID projects, and development work particularly in Communications highly desired.
Knowledge:
Strong copy editing skills, and keen attention to details required.
Familiarity, understanding of various technical reports required.
Excellent knowledge of English grammar and American word usage required.  A broad understanding of issues related to international development is highly desired.
Familiarity, understanding of the content on social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin
Skills and abilities:
Excellent oral and written communications skills, including journalistic or technical writing, editing and
research skills required. Must be able to work independently, taking the initiative once guidance is provided, must be able to provide quality work, even under pressure to meet deadlines.