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POSITION DESCRIPTIONS
COPY EDITOR
Rev 7-29-05

The Copy Editor works closely with the Editor-in-Chief and other Newsletter Editorial Board members to ensure timely and effective production of the NASIG Newsletter, and to develop and implement improvements for its process, policies, content, structure, and appearance.

Production of individual Newsletter issues often requires short periods of intensive work within short turn-around times. Members of the Newsletter Editorial Board routinely find this commitment requires occasional evening and/or weekend hours.

SPECIFIC, ROUTINE TASKS:
* Copy edit all submissions, including review of conference reports, approved by the Editor-in-Chief
* Following the established style sheet, input basic style and formatting details
* Simultaneously distribute all articles after copy editing to the Editor-in-Chief, PDF Editor, and HTML Editor, by each issue's copy editing target date

REQUIRED QUALITIES AND SKILLS: reliability; flexibility; initiative; creativity; dedication to producing a high quality and timely product; effective communication and organization skills; ability to maintain good working relationships with others, esp. within in a geographically dispersed team; convenient use of an e-mail program; excellent copy editing skills; ability to complete all copy editing for an issue within the designated time frame (normally this is a maximum of 1 week); excellent skills with recent version of MS Word

DESIRED QUALITIES AND SKILLS: convenient use of an e-mail program that can handle attachments

All Newsletter Editorial Board members serve at the pleasure of the Editor-in-Chief.
The Newsletter Editorial Board charge is available at:
http://www.nasig.org/committee-newsletter.cfm

For guidelines governing service on NASIG committees, see:
http://www.nasig.org/about_committees_
guidelines.cfm

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