Senior Editor, Conferences & Events

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Florida.

📋 Description

• Create and implement an editorial strategy for rare disease conferences, ensuring alignment with audience demands and business goals.

• Identify significant research, clinical advancements, emerging trends, technologies, and other noteworthy stories.

• Submit timely and precise articles under the pressure of conference deadlines.

• Oversee conference planning, including editorial calendars, coverage priorities, freelance staffing and assignments, budgets, as well as pre- and post-conference content.

• Attend selected conferences in person to report on keynote presentations, new data, and patient or advocacy news in real time.

• Collaborate with advocacy, editorial, news, audience development, commercial, sales, community, and patient advisory teams.

• Manage the complete editorial process from story ideation and assignment through to reporting, editing, fact-checking, and publication.

• Assign, edit, and publish news articles, research summaries, interviews, and analyses.

• Simplify complex scientific information into clear, accurate, and engaging narratives.

• Conduct interviews with researchers, clinicians, advocacy groups, and industry leaders.

• Coordinate onsite reporters, freelancers, and contributors.

• Act as the senior editorial lead at significant conferences and drive fast-paced news coverage.

• Recruit, assess, and onboard freelance reporters covering medical and scientific conferences.

• Oversee freelancer budgets, deadlines, and performance.

• Identify important sessions, connect with sources, and ensure coverage aligns with community priorities.

• Integrate conference coverage with broader editorial planning and immediate news needs.

• Utilize audience feedback to enhance conference coverage strategy.

• Analyze coverage performance and continually refine strategy based on audience engagement and community feedback.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of journalism experience.

• Proven track record of covering medical, scientific, or health-related conferences.

• Demonstrated experience in managing or editing freelance writers.

• Strong news judgment with the ability to quickly identify newsworthy angles, even under deadline pressure.

• Excellent editing skills with a keen eye for accuracy and adherence to AP style.

• Experience in building relationships with researchers, clinicians, patient advocates, and advocacy organizations.

• Strong project management capabilities, able to handle multiple freelancers, conferences, and deadlines concurrently.

• Comfortable and effective in cross-functional collaboration with editorial, advocacy, community, and sales teams.

• Willingness and ability to travel frequently to attend conferences, anticipated at 3–4 conferences annually.

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

• Preferred: Familiarity with the rare disease, chronic illness, or broader patient advocacy landscape.

• Preferred: Experience with a content management system and basic multimedia reporting, including photo, video, or social reporting from the field.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work structure.

• Travel to attend 3–4 in-person conferences each year.

• Opportunity to collaborate across editorial, audience development, sales, advocacy, news, community, and commercial teams.

• Professional opportunity to lead editorial strategy and content programming for rare disease conferences and events.