Project Manager AO Surgery Reference

In order to master this challenge, you have:

Critical Required Skills:

• Excellent communication skills
• Good command of English (written and oral)
• Ability to work independently, in a structured and organized manner    
• Ability to quickly acquire knowledge on a topic to guide authors (and editors) in authorship
• Ability to fully understand and communicate surgical procedures

Required Education:

• Higher education (university) or equivalent degree

Required work experience:

• Project Management
• Experience working in an international environment
• An educational/technical/scientific background is an advantage

Other Requirements:

• MS Office skills, typing skills.

In this role, you will be required to:

Project Management:

• Planning and coordination
• Communication
• Monitoring of the project budget
• Coordination of author selection and project setup
• International travel (20%-30% of workload), often outside of normal working hours    

Coordinate, support and guide content development:

• Prepare and conduct content development and review workshops with writers/editors
• Provide authorship support to authors
• Ensure content consistency of material between authors
• Ghostwriting for authors with poor language/writing skills

Web publishing:

• Preparing content for web publication and creating web documents
• Enriching content with appropriate additional sources (AO publications, videos, supporting documents...)
• Extensive testing of the created pages before publication
• Creation of promotional materials for the project launch, as requested by the department

Continuous improvement and presentation of the AO Surgery Reference:

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the AO Surgery Reference, e.g., suggesting changes to structure and design, reporting bugs, and testing new developments
• Represent and present the AO Surgery Reference at courses or lectures, at the request of the specialty.