Editor to ECDC – an EU-agency with important mission!

Are you an Editor with an eye for details and organizational skills? Are you experienced in editing and proof-reading in English and want to work in a professional environment alongside other skilled editors? Grab this opportunity to gain useful experience!
About the position
At Perido we are now looking for an Editor for a longer assignment at ECDCC – an independent and important agency of the European Union. Their aim is to strengthening Europe's defenses against infectious diseases. The core functions cover a wide spectrum of activities: surveillance, epidemic intelligence, response, scientific advice, microbiology, preparedness, public health training, international relations, health communication and the scientific journal “Eurosurveillance”.
The ECDC staff is currently working in a hybrid mode (i.e., both from office and from home). After an introduction at the agency’s premises, you can choose to proceed the work remotely or from the modern office nicely located just outside of Stockholm city.
Your daily tasks
In this role you will work in the unit called “Scientific Methods and Standards (SMS)”. This Unit leads the processes for strengthening the scientific excellence and the dissemination of knowledge within the organization and to partners. This includes the quality assurance of ECDC’s scientific work and the organization of ESCAIDE. The Unit is also responsible for ensuring the relevance and transparency of ECDC’s scientific outputs through appropriate consultation. In addition, the “Eurosurveillance” Editorial Office is hosted in this Unit.
You will take part in producing the in-house journal and you will have a close collaboration with peer-reviewers and authors, and perform tasks such as:
Edit and proof-read ECDC’s scientific publications and other output for accuracy, consistency, clarity, style and structure.
Implement consistent formatting and layout of texts in preparation for publication.
In performing editorial tasks, collaborate closely with authors, experts and colleagues in ECDC.
Write short texts such as publication abstracts.

Your qualifications
We believe the right person for this mission have some experience in writing and editing texts in English and are accurate and organizational in the use of language. You are committed and thoroughly when reading and reviewing material and you have an eye for details. In addition to this, your ability to organize your work and performing under pressure is excellent and you always strive to keep a constant communication with your colleagues to achieve efficiency within the team.
Does this sound like the job for you? If so, please send us your application as soon as possible, we look forward getting to know you!
Note! For this position you need to provide us with a curriculum vitae in English and in the Europass CV template (https://europa.eu/europass/sv). We also need a letter of motivation, explaining which job specific expertise and personal characteristics you can bring to the job (of maximum 1 page).
Requirements
Education at university level, or other relevant post-secondary education and relevant professional experience
Experience and skills in editing, writing and proof-reading texts in English, preferably in the area of scientific texts
Project and time management skills
Proficiency in formatting texts in MS Word as well as graphs and table in Excel
Thorough knowledge of MS Office in general (Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook)
Excellent level of English, written and spoken

Meritorious
Experience in editing in the medical, public health or other scientific field
Knowledge of the publishing process
Experience with desktop publishing software (such as InDesign)

Contract type and hours
Full time consulting assignment with Perido. We expect a total duration for this position between 9 and 12 months. Start 2022-06-01.
Application
Please apply for this vacancy through our website. More information about this position will be revealed at the first contact with responsible recruiter. We recommend that you submit your application as soon as possible since interviews will be held continuously.
Responsible recruiter for this position is Jennifer Walder who can be reached by mail jennifer.walder@perido.se or phone 070-467 95 72.
If you have questions you are also welcomed to contact us by mail fraga@perido.se and one of our recruitment communicators will answer you. State the reference number 33103 in the subject line.
About Perido
Perido is a successful consultant and recruitment company, active within the civil service sector. The company has grown consistently since the start in 2003. Our vision is that everyone should thrive and feel dedicated at work, this includes our co-workers and consultants. Through questioners that cover well-being we up hold high scores of contentment among our employees, both in-house co-workers and consultants year after year. This is something that we continue striving towards in everything we do. Today, Perido consists of 50 in-house co-workers and over 800 consultants working all over the country. More vacancies can be found on our website; www.perido.se/lediga-jobb/
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