Job Description

Job Summary:

Editorial assistants perform a range of administrative andeditorial tasks necessary to the production of publications. You’ll often beinvolved in projects from conception to completion, from receiving copy fromauthors through to the handover to production staff.

Job Description:

• Supportingeditorial staff in all activities leading to publication, including acting as apersonal assistant to commissioning editors and overseeing tasks       such as issuing contracts and dealingwith royalties

• Liaising withother in-house teams, writers, photographers, printers, designers, andproduction staff to negotiate and monitor timescales for stages in thepublishing process

• Dealing with theadministration of work commissioned to freelance writers, picture researchers,photographers, stylists, and illustrators

• Organizing andresearching projects to tight deadlines

• Summarizingwritten material

• Correctingmanuscripts

• Obtaining rightsto use materials from other publications

• Using computersfor word processing, desktop publishing, and email

Desired candidate :

• Enthusiasm, interpersonal skills,self-motivation, and flexibility

• A high standardof written and spoken English

• Attention todetail, together with the ability to proofread

• The ability tostay calm under pressure, work well with others, and show initiative

• Time managementskills, including the ability to keep to tight deadlines

• Job shadowing ata magazine or newspaper

• Working in alibrary or bookshop