Health Media Jobs and Opportunities: Consumer Health at the FDA

December 9, 2011

This week, the Food and Drug Administration seeks to add a writer/editor to its Consumer Health Information team. There is also demand for health reporters and editors at print and online media outlets nationwide.

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Featured Listing

Writer/Editor, Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Status: Full Time
Medium: Print, Other

"This position is located in the Office of External Affairs, External Relations, Consumer Health Information Staff. The Consumer Health Information staff is responsible for creating, executing and overseeing all consumer health information activities for the FDA.

Duties:

  • Serves as a senior writer-editor and exercises independent judgment and initiative in creating a variety of consumer-oriented materials as required in support of public information and consumer education programs on a nationwide basis, including Consumer Updates, which can be found on FDA's website at http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/default.htm.
  • Coordinates the writing and disseminating of quickly produced Consumer Updates in conjunction with major agency announcements, including situations in which public health may be at risk
  • Assists with establishing and maintaining partnerships with external organizations and conducting other activities to increase the reach of FDA consumer health information.
  • Researches, conducts interviews, organizes, writes, revises, and clears written materials through the highest levels of the agency under constant deadline pressure, which may require working outside of normal business hours.
  • Translates complex terms and language into narratives easily understandable to the general public (which is assumed to have no more than a high school education).
  • Collaborates with the staff's Visual Information Specialists regarding editorial presentation of graphic materials.
  • Recommends topics to be covered and exercises editorial judgment regarding the content of materials. Loads and maintains web pages in the agency's automated content management system"

 

New Job and Internship Listings

Reporter, Modern Healthcare (via Gorkana Jobs)
Location: San Francisco, CA
Status: Full Time
Medium: Print, Online

Reporter, Modern Healthcare (via Gorkana Jobs)
Location: Nashville, TN
Status: Full Time
Medium: Print, Online

Health Editor, mycirQle (via Gorkana Jobs)
Location: New York, NY or Bay Area, CA ideal (Remote OK)
Status: Part Time
Medium: Online

Features and Health Reporter, The News-Record (via JournalismJobs)
Location: Gillette, WY
Status: Full Time
Medium: Print

Freelance Health Writer, TheCheckup.com (via Ed2010)
Location: Telecommute
Status: Freelance
Medium: Online

Blogs/News Editor, Everyday Health (via mediabistro)
Location: New York, NY
Status: Full Time
Medium: Online

 

Prizes

2011 Hillman Prizes, The Hillman Foundation
Eligibility: Work produced, published, broadcast, or exhibited in 2010.
Deadline: January 31, 2012
From the Website: "Since 1950, the Sidney Hillman Foundation has honored journalists who pursue investigative reporting and deep storytelling in the public interest. Our six categories will include books (non-fiction), reporting in newspaper, magazine, and blogs, film and broadcast journalism (includes television and radio), and photojournalism. The contest is open to journalists and subjects globally, although work must be published in the U.S."