Senior Associate Editor

Job Description

About Everyday Health

Everyday Health Group (EHG) is a recognized leader in patient and provider education attracting an engaged audience of over 60 million health consumers and over 800,000 U.S. practicing physicians and clinicians to its premier health and wellness websites. Healthcare professionals and consumers are empowered with trusted content and services through the Everyday Health Group’s flagship brands including Everyday Health®, What to Expect®, Baby Center, MedPage Today®, Health eCareers®, PRIME® Education, Castle Connolly Top Doctors® and our exclusive partnership with MayoClinic.org® and The Mayo Clinic Diet.®  

The Opportunity

Everyday Health is seeking a senior associate editor with a passion for empowering and inspiring people to live their healthiest lives every day. As a member of EverydayHealth.com’s editorial team, you will play a key role within a dynamic, creative, close-knit department focused on developing health, wellness, and medical content for a consumer audience.

The senior associate editor will support a team of senior editors to produce and promote high-quality health content across a wide scope of topic areas. You will provide a broad range of support responsibilities, including researching keywords to increase organic traffic and audience engagement, optimizing content for SEO, updating existing content, conducting interviews with health experts and patients, identifying opportunities for editorial coverage, and performing a wide range of administrative duties to maintain an efficient production workflow. 

Key Responsibilities

• Work in our CMS to build articles, optimize content with widgets and updates, and implement new functionalities
• Perform keyword research using SEO analytics tools 
• Assist with regular content audits
• Edit, write, repackage, and update content as assigned
• Help senior editors assign and edit content
• Coordinate production workflow with copy editors, medical reviewers, photo editors, and production editors
• Schedule, conduct, and transcribe interviews with experts and patients 
• Monitor news feeds daily for potential story ideas
• Perform administrative duties as required, including onboarding new contributors, processing invoices, backlink outreach, and managing production workflow

Job Qualifications

• Able to work collaboratively and effectively with others on the editorial team and with other departments across the company
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, creative work environment
• Smart, energetic, ambitious, and creative, with strong organizational skills
• Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy and quality
• Able to juggle multiple tasks, meet deadlines, and adapt to new assignments
• Minimum two years digital editorial experience
• Solid research and interviewing skills
• Experience using SEO and analytics tools for keyword research
• Experience working in a CMS and in web-based project management tools
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Health and medical content experience

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