Assistant Managing Editor, Journals - Remote
American Cancer Society · Cincinnati, OH · 2 days ago
Writing$67k–$72k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes description. We need to use for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Must preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Content:
- Intro about ACS mission etc. Could be "About the role" maybe includes description of role and mission.
- Essential Functions: list of duties with percentages. That's responsibilities.
- Experience/Qualifications: Minimum Degree Required, Years of experience, Preferred experience.
- Knowledge, Skills, and Ability: list of skills.
- Travel Requirements: ability to represent ACS at conferences etc.
- Physical Requirements: Works from home.
- Pay: Starting rate $67,000 to $72,000. Note about actual starting pay varying.
- Benefits: ACS provides staff a generous paid time off policy; medical, dental, retirement benefits, wellness programs, professional development programs. Also link to benefits page.
- Schedule: Not explicitly mentioned; maybe remote flexibility. It says "This position is fully remote, with flexibility to work from anywhere in the U.S." That's schedule/location. Could be under Schedule? Or maybe under Benefits? There's no explicit schedule hours. Could treat as Schedule: Fully remote, flexible location.
We must not create sections with filler like "not specified". So include only those with content.
Thus sections: About the role (intro), Responsibilities (essential functions), Requirements (experience/qualifications), Qualifications (maybe knowledge, skills, ability?), Skills (maybe combine?), Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
But we need to avoid duplication. The posting has "EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS:" and "KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITY:" separate. Could map to Requirements (experience/qualifications) and Skills (knowledge, skills, ability). Also maybe Qualifications section could be degree requirement? But we already have experience/qualifications. Could combine.
We need to follow instruction: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can use those exact headings.
We need to decide what goes where.
About the role: introductory paragraph about ACS mission and role context.
Responsibilities: essential functions list.
Requirements: Minimum Degree Required, Years of experience, Preferred experience (maybe also travel requirements? but travel is separate). Could also include travel requirements under Requirements? But maybe better to put travel under Requirements? However there is a separate "Travel Requirements" heading in posting. Could treat as part of Requirements or maybe as its own section but we don't have a heading for Travel. Not in allowed list. So we could incorporate travel responsibilities under Responsibilities or Requirements. Probably under Responsibilities as part of job duties.
Qualifications: maybe the degree requirement? But we already used degree in Requirements. Could treat Qualifications as "Minimum Degree Required" etc. But we need to avoid duplication. Let's think: The posting has "EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS:" then "KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITY:" So we could map:
- Requirements: Experience/Qualifications (years, degree, preferred experience)
- Qualifications: Knowledge, Skills, and Ability (skills, abilities)
- Skills: maybe not needed separate; but we could still include Skills heading with maybe some specific skills like Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Creative Cloud, etc. But that would duplicate.
Better to follow typical structure: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We can assign:
- About the role: intro paragraph about ACS mission and role.
- Responsibilities: essential functions (the bullet list with percentages).
- Requirements: Minimum Degree Required, Years of experience, Preferred experience (1-2 years with digital artwork/video), Travel requirements (ability to represent ACS at conferences), Physical requirement (works from home) maybe.
- Qualifications: Knowledge, Skills, and Ability list (problem-solving, data analysis, communication, Excel, PowerPoint, learning new programs, organizational skills, understanding embargoes, presenting, familiarity with trends, proofreading, AMA/AP Style, training staff).
- Skills: maybe we could list specific technical skills: Adobe Creative Cloud, advanced Excel, PowerPoint, etc. But that overlaps with Qualifications. Could instead put under Skills: "Exceptional problem-solving skills, ability to analyze and report data, distill technical information, persistent, flexible, resourceful, deadline- and detail-oriented, tactful customer service, excellent communication, advanced Excel and PowerPoint, ability to learn new programs quickly, proven organizational and time management skills." That's basically same as Qualifications. Might be redundant but okay.
But we need to avoid filler. We can combine.
Maybe better: Use Requirements for experience/education, Qualifications for knowledge/skills/abilities, Skills for specific technical proficiencies (Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Creative Cloud, AMA/AP Style). Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
Let's extract specifics:
Experience/Qualifications:
- Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor's Degree
- Years of experience: Required: Minimum of 3 years’ experience with web-based peer review systems, peer review processes, and editorial procedures for a scholarly journal, including experience dealing with scientific researchers or physicians.
- Preferred: 1-2 years’ experience working with digital artwork and editing video in Adobe Creative Cloud for social media.
Travel Requirements:
- Ability to represent ACS at conferences and other events attended by oncologists, oncology specialists, cytopathologists/pathologists, and other health professional audiences such as primary care.
- May attend professional publishing conferences; moderate or present at sessions; and participate in trainings, committees, and other activities.
Physical Requirements:
- Works from home.
Pay:
- Starting rate $67,000 to $72,000.
- Final candidate's relevant experience/skills considered before offer.
- Actual starting pay varies based on non-discriminatory factors including geographic location, experience, skills, specialty, education.
Benefits:
- ACS provides staff a generous paid time off policy; medical, dental, retirement benefits, wellness programs, and professional development programs to enhance staff skills.
- Further details on benefits can be found on our careers site at: jobs.cancer.org/benefits.
Schedule:
- This position is fully remote, with flexibility to work from anywhere in the U.S.
Now About the role: The initial paragraphs about ACS mission and role context.
Let's craft About the role paragraph:
"At the American Cancer Society, we're working to end cancer as we know it, for everyone. Our employees and 1.3 million volunteers are raising the bar every single day. We are a culture comprised of diverse backgrounds and experience, to better serve our communities. The people who work at the American Cancer Society focus their diverse talents on our lifesaving mission. It is a calling. And the people who answer it are fulfilled. This position is a critical part of the American Cancer Society’s Journal Program that is responsible for the publication and dissemination of research articles and educational content in the scholarly medical journals CANCER, Cancer Cytopathology, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, and Pediatric, Adolescent & Young Adult Cancer (launching in 2026). In a field that requires evolving strategies and tactics, the Assistant Managing Editor works with a results-oriented, high-performance Journals team, as well as commercial publishing staff and external medical Editors who set the goals for each journal. They will also work with external publishing partners to help support and implement peer review and publication strategies aimed at reaching our primary audience of oncology physicians and researchers, as well as other health professionals. Approximately 80% of the individual’s time is spent on CANCER, which receives over 4,000 submissions per year and generates critical revenue to support the entire Journals Program. Acts as lead for CANCER in the event of the Director’s absence, ensuring an uninterrupted workflow for peer review, production, and all editorial needs. CANCER, Cancer Cytopathology, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, and Pediatric, Adolescent & Young Adult Cancer generate over $2.5 million per year in revenue. This position is fully remote, with flexibility to work from anywhere in the U.S."
But note that the last sentence about remote is also schedule; we might move that to Schedule section and not duplicate. However About the role can still mention remote? Might be okay but we should avoid duplication. The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep that info somewhere. If we put it in Schedule, we still need to keep it somewhere. We could keep it in About the role but then Schedule would be duplicate. Better to put remote info in Schedule section and not repeat in About the role. So About the role should exclude the remote sentence.
Thus About the role: up to "This position is fully remote, with flexibility to work from anywhere in the U.S." we remove that sentence.
Let's craft About the role without that sentence.
Now Responsibilities: essential functions list. We need to format as
for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Must preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Content:
- Intro about ACS mission etc. Could be "About the role" maybe includes description of role and mission.
- Essential Functions: list of duties with percentages. That's responsibilities.
- Experience/Qualifications: Minimum Degree Required, Years of experience, Preferred experience.
- Knowledge, Skills, and Ability: list of skills.
- Travel Requirements: ability to represent ACS at conferences etc.
- Physical Requirements: Works from home.
- Pay: Starting rate $67,000 to $72,000. Note about actual starting pay varying.
- Benefits: ACS provides staff a generous paid time off policy; medical, dental, retirement benefits, wellness programs, professional development programs. Also link to benefits page.
- Schedule: Not explicitly mentioned; maybe remote flexibility. It says "This position is fully remote, with flexibility to work from anywhere in the U.S." That's schedule/location. Could be under Schedule? Or maybe under Benefits? There's no explicit schedule hours. Could treat as Schedule: Fully remote, flexible location.
We must not create sections with filler like "not specified". So include only those with content.
Thus sections: About the role (intro), Responsibilities (essential functions), Requirements (experience/qualifications), Qualifications (maybe knowledge, skills, ability?), Skills (maybe combine?), Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
But we need to avoid duplication. The posting has "EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS:" and "KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITY:" separate. Could map to Requirements (experience/qualifications) and Skills (knowledge, skills, ability). Also maybe Qualifications section could be degree requirement? But we already have experience/qualifications. Could combine.
We need to follow instruction: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can use those exact headings.
We need to decide what goes where.
About the role: introductory paragraph about ACS mission and role context.
Responsibilities: essential functions list.
Requirements: Minimum Degree Required, Years of experience, Preferred experience (maybe also travel requirements? but travel is separate). Could also include travel requirements under Requirements? But maybe better to put travel under Requirements? However there is a separate "Travel Requirements" heading in posting. Could treat as part of Requirements or maybe as its own section but we don't have a heading for Travel. Not in allowed list. So we could incorporate travel responsibilities under Responsibilities or Requirements. Probably under Responsibilities as part of job duties.
Qualifications: maybe the degree requirement? But we already used degree in Requirements. Could treat Qualifications as "Minimum Degree Required" etc. But we need to avoid duplication. Let's think: The posting has "EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS:" then "KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITY:" So we could map:
- Requirements: Experience/Qualifications (years, degree, preferred experience)
- Qualifications: Knowledge, Skills, and Ability (skills, abilities)
- Skills: maybe not needed separate; but we could still include Skills heading with maybe some specific skills like Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Creative Cloud, etc. But that would duplicate.
Better to follow typical structure: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We can assign:
- About the role: intro paragraph about ACS mission and role.
- Responsibilities: essential functions (the bullet list with percentages).
- Requirements: Minimum Degree Required, Years of experience, Preferred experience (1-2 years with digital artwork/video), Travel requirements (ability to represent ACS at conferences), Physical requirement (works from home) maybe.
- Qualifications: Knowledge, Skills, and Ability list (problem-solving, data analysis, communication, Excel, PowerPoint, learning new programs, organizational skills, understanding embargoes, presenting, familiarity with trends, proofreading, AMA/AP Style, training staff).
- Skills: maybe we could list specific technical skills: Adobe Creative Cloud, advanced Excel, PowerPoint, etc. But that overlaps with Qualifications. Could instead put under Skills: "Exceptional problem-solving skills, ability to analyze and report data, distill technical information, persistent, flexible, resourceful, deadline- and detail-oriented, tactful customer service, excellent communication, advanced Excel and PowerPoint, ability to learn new programs quickly, proven organizational and time management skills." That's basically same as Qualifications. Might be redundant but okay.
But we need to avoid filler. We can combine.
Maybe better: Use Requirements for experience/education, Qualifications for knowledge/skills/abilities, Skills for specific technical proficiencies (Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Creative Cloud, AMA/AP Style). Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
Let's extract specifics:
Experience/Qualifications:
- Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor's Degree
- Years of experience: Required: Minimum of 3 years’ experience with web-based peer review systems, peer review processes, and editorial procedures for a scholarly journal, including experience dealing with scientific researchers or physicians.
- Preferred: 1-2 years’ experience working with digital artwork and editing video in Adobe Creative Cloud for social media.
Travel Requirements:
- Ability to represent ACS at conferences and other events attended by oncologists, oncology specialists, cytopathologists/pathologists, and other health professional audiences such as primary care.
- May attend professional publishing conferences; moderate or present at sessions; and participate in trainings, committees, and other activities.
Physical Requirements:
- Works from home.
Pay:
- Starting rate $67,000 to $72,000.
- Final candidate's relevant experience/skills considered before offer.
- Actual starting pay varies based on non-discriminatory factors including geographic location, experience, skills, specialty, education.
Benefits:
- ACS provides staff a generous paid time off policy; medical, dental, retirement benefits, wellness programs, and professional development programs to enhance staff skills.
- Further details on benefits can be found on our careers site at: jobs.cancer.org/benefits.
Schedule:
- This position is fully remote, with flexibility to work from anywhere in the U.S.
Now About the role: The initial paragraphs about ACS mission and role context.
Let's craft About the role paragraph:
"At the American Cancer Society, we're working to end cancer as we know it, for everyone. Our employees and 1.3 million volunteers are raising the bar every single day. We are a culture comprised of diverse backgrounds and experience, to better serve our communities. The people who work at the American Cancer Society focus their diverse talents on our lifesaving mission. It is a calling. And the people who answer it are fulfilled. This position is a critical part of the American Cancer Society’s Journal Program that is responsible for the publication and dissemination of research articles and educational content in the scholarly medical journals CANCER, Cancer Cytopathology, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, and Pediatric, Adolescent & Young Adult Cancer (launching in 2026). In a field that requires evolving strategies and tactics, the Assistant Managing Editor works with a results-oriented, high-performance Journals team, as well as commercial publishing staff and external medical Editors who set the goals for each journal. They will also work with external publishing partners to help support and implement peer review and publication strategies aimed at reaching our primary audience of oncology physicians and researchers, as well as other health professionals. Approximately 80% of the individual’s time is spent on CANCER, which receives over 4,000 submissions per year and generates critical revenue to support the entire Journals Program. Acts as lead for CANCER in the event of the Director’s absence, ensuring an uninterrupted workflow for peer review, production, and all editorial needs. CANCER, Cancer Cytopathology, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, and Pediatric, Adolescent & Young Adult Cancer generate over $2.5 million per year in revenue. This position is fully remote, with flexibility to work from anywhere in the U.S."
But note that the last sentence about remote is also schedule; we might move that to Schedule section and not duplicate. However About the role can still mention remote? Might be okay but we should avoid duplication. The instruction: Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep that info somewhere. If we put it in Schedule, we still need to keep it somewhere. We could keep it in About the role but then Schedule would be duplicate. Better to put remote info in Schedule section and not repeat in About the role. So About the role should exclude the remote sentence.
Thus About the role: up to "This position is fully remote, with flexibility to work from anywhere in the U.S." we remove that sentence.
Let's craft About the role without that sentence.
Now Responsibilities: essential functions list. We need to format as - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we will create a
with each essential function as - . The essential functions are long sentences with percentages. We'll keep them as is.
We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we must keep the percentages and details.
We'll copy the essential functions exactly as given, but ensure we keep the content.
Essential Functions block:
"ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Managespeer review and editorialaspects ofthe journal.Oversees the editorial support vendor, ensuring adherence to protocols for peer review and production, keeping the Director apprised of progress. Responsible for the management of solicited content forCANCER, from acquisition to submission, per goals set by the Editor-in-Chief. Manages revenue-generating supplements and special issues from proposal to online publication, guiding authors, agencies, and funders through the complex processes involved. Works directly with theCANCEREditor-in-Chief on the consideration of letters to the editor and decision appeals. Responsible for tracking and analyzing complex peer review, production/publication, competition, and other data to help chart trends and calculate semiannual Editor honoraria payments. Compiles reports for presentation and discussion at annual and quarterly meetings, as well as ad hoc meetings. Makes recommendations and implements changes based on data analysis. Responsible for managing and/or triaging all communications received by the Editorial Office forCANCER. Collects annual conflict of disclosures from Editorial Board members.(35%)Providesproduction support for the journal.Copyedits and proofreads critical materials, detecting errors or inconsistencies. Monitors journal online platforms andprovidesfeedback topublisherfor updates and changes.In a continuous publication model,ensuresthere isa steady pipeline ofcontentforCANCER, the ACS’s largest journal,by continually reviewing manuscript data and reports.Conducts monthlycontentstrategy meetings toreviewmonthlyreport data andadvisethe Director and Managing Director on thecontentpipelineand the status ofspecial content.Implements publisher-enforced process changes.Screenssubmittedimages for inappropriate manipulation and alerts the Director and Editor-in-Chief to any issues that arise so they can be investigated. (35%)Together with the Research Engagement Manager, leadsjournal user engagement efforts, including creation and editing of short-form video, podcasts, infographics, visual abstracts, etc.(20%)Provides operational and administrative support to the Program including managing invoices, honoraria, and contract payments, monitoring correspondence,andmanaging group calendars.Organizes, plans, and manageslogistics, travel arrangements,and communications for journal annual meetings held either virtually or in person.(10%)"
We need to split into separate list items. The percentages are attached at end of some sentences. We'll keep them as part of the sentence.
We'll create
- for each major bullet: maybe each sentence before a percentage or new topic.
Let's parse:
1. Manages peer review and editorial aspects of the journal.
2. Oversees the editorial support vendor, ensuring adherence to protocols for peer review and production
- with each essential function as
- . The essential functions are long sentences with percentages. We'll keep them as is. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we must keep the percentages and details. We'll copy the essential functions exactly as given, but ensure we keep the content. Essential Functions block: "ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Managespeer review and editorialaspects ofthe journal.Oversees the editorial support vendor, ensuring adherence to protocols for peer review and production, keeping the Director apprised of progress. Responsible for the management of solicited content forCANCER, from acquisition to submission, per goals set by the Editor-in-Chief. Manages revenue-generating supplements and special issues from proposal to online publication, guiding authors, agencies, and funders through the complex processes involved. Works directly with theCANCEREditor-in-Chief on the consideration of letters to the editor and decision appeals. Responsible for tracking and analyzing complex peer review, production/publication, competition, and other data to help chart trends and calculate semiannual Editor honoraria payments. Compiles reports for presentation and discussion at annual and quarterly meetings, as well as ad hoc meetings. Makes recommendations and implements changes based on data analysis. Responsible for managing and/or triaging all communications received by the Editorial Office forCANCER. Collects annual conflict of disclosures from Editorial Board members.(35%)Providesproduction support for the journal.Copyedits and proofreads critical materials, detecting errors or inconsistencies. Monitors journal online platforms andprovidesfeedback topublisherfor updates and changes.In a continuous publication model,ensuresthere isa steady pipeline ofcontentforCANCER, the ACS’s largest journal,by continually reviewing manuscript data and reports.Conducts monthlycontentstrategy meetings toreviewmonthlyreport data andadvisethe Director and Managing Director on thecontentpipelineand the status ofspecial content.Implements publisher-enforced process changes.Screenssubmittedimages for inappropriate manipulation and alerts the Director and Editor-in-Chief to any issues that arise so they can be investigated. (35%)Together with the Research Engagement Manager, leadsjournal user engagement efforts, including creation and editing of short-form video, podcasts, infographics, visual abstracts, etc.(20%)Provides operational and administrative support to the Program including managing invoices, honoraria, and contract payments, monitoring correspondence,andmanaging group calendars.Organizes, plans, and manageslogistics, travel arrangements,and communications for journal annual meetings held either virtually or in person.(10%)" We need to split into separate list items. The percentages are attached at end of some sentences. We'll keep them as part of the sentence. We'll create
- for each major bullet: maybe each sentence before a percentage or new topic. Let's parse: 1. Manages peer review and editorial aspects of the journal. 2. Oversees the editorial support vendor, ensuring adherence to protocols for peer review and production