Creative Content Writer (Biology Educational Animation)
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JoVE is the world-leading producer and provider of science video solutions with the mission to improve scientific research and education. Millions of scientists, educators and students use JoVE for their research, teaching and learning. Our institutional clients comprise over 1,000 universities, colleges, and biopharma companies, including such leaders as Harvard, MIT, Yale, and Stanford. As a rapidly growing company, with offices in the USA, UK, Australia, and India servicing clients in over 60 countries, we are seeking talented and ambitious individuals to join our company.
We are looking for a creative content writer to join our team to produce scripts for Biology-focused educational animation videos. This position is academic focused and it is not focused on scientific journal writing.
Responsibilities:
- Follow our guidelines for script generation to produce scientifically accurate, educational, and engaging lessons.
- Create accompanying storyboards to visualize scientific concepts in an easy to understand manner for undergraduate students.
- Generate documents using our guidelines to provide instructions to media professionals such as voice talent, video editors, and animators.
- Review content (scripts, storyboards, and animation rough-cuts) and provide feedback based on your knowledge and expertise.
Requirements
- PhD or Masters in Biology or relevant discipline
- 2+ years of experience in instructional design or curriculum development
- Experience in writing scripts and storyboards for video content development.
- Eagerness to convey science using a creative approach.
- Enthusiasm to learn how to communicate scientific concepts visually.
- Strong written communication skills.
Benefits
Why Join JoVE?
• When working with JoVE, you can expect salary and benefit package competitively placed within the local market
• You will make a direct impact in accelerating science research and in improving student learning in science education
• Opportunity to work with global teams and in an environment that promotes innovation and collaboration
• Our strong promotion from within culture draws a clear path to advance your career with us
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JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) is the premier, peer-reviewed scientific video journal, STEM education platform, and digital laboratory infrastructure powerhouse engineered to operate as the definitive visualization and reproducibility layer for global academic and biopharmaceutical research. The company completely eliminates the severe systemic friction of traditional scientific publishing—where researchers and students struggle to replicate complex experimental methodologies, laboratory protocols, and physical hand movements from static, text-only journal scripts—by deploying high-definition, step-by-step video publication pipelines. Moving far beyond traditional, text-based academic archives or unvetted media libraries, JoVE natively unifies its indexed video journal (abstracted in PubMed, MEDLINE, Web of Science, and Scopus) with its specialized JoVE Science Education, JoVE Core, and JoVE Lab Manual frameworks into a single high-availability learning ecosystem. The platform empowers millions of scientists, professors, and students across thousands of prestigious universities and life-science centers globally—including Harvard, MIT, Yale, and Stanford—to optimize training velocities, reduce laboratory resource waste, and maximize experimental success rates with elite precision. Under the hood, its sophisticated technical core natively orchestrates global, multi-region video production networks, custom interactive STEM quizzes, and AI-driven classroom curriculum mapping integrations. What sets JoVE apart is its uncompromising dedication to replacing scientific ambiguity with absolute visual proof; by bridging the gap between intricate low-level physical manipulations and high-concurrency cloud-scale educational delivery, the firm enables global scientific networks to eliminate replication bottlenecks, supercharge academic literacy, and accelerate commercial and medical research innovations.
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