Editorial Production Assistant

Duncan Professionals Limited t/a Redwood; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading publishing organization in the United Kingdom is looking for an Editorial Production Assistant to support their publishing division. This role offers the chance to learn about the publishing process through responsibilities such as managing author communications and ensuring the quality of publications. Candidates should possess a degree or equivalent, strong communication skills, attention to detail, and proficiency in IT. Experience in publishing is desirable but not essential. The position is initially until December 2020.

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• High degree of literacy and numeracy.
• Attention to detail is crucial.

Responsibilities

• Responding to email and telephone queries.
• Ensuring high quality of copyediting and typesetting.
• Marking up and validating author corrections.
• Delivering articles to the IET Digital Library platform.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Education

Degree level or equivalent

Tools

IT packages

Job description

Are you interested in a career within publishing? Would you like to gain experience within editorial and production? We have a great opportunity working for a highly respected organization in their publishing division. This highly respected organisation is based in Hertfordshire, 20 minutes train journey from London and it is a superb opportunity to learn about the publishing process. The Editorial Production Assistant will have the opportunity to learn and develop skills within journals publishing, along with managing the publishing process, including print and digital publications.

Some key responsibilities of the role will involve:

• Responding to email and telephone queries and chasing authors, reviewers and editors
• Ensuring the quality of copyediting and typesetting is to a high standard and recording issues as appropriate
• Marking up and validating author corrections
• Ensuring the final XML, PDF and image files are correct
• Delivering articles and issue online files to the IET Digital Library platform

This is a great role to develop your publishing experience and the successful candidate will be educated to degree level or equivalent. You will have strong interpersonal and communication skills and a high degree of literacy and numeracy, plus experience of using different IT packages within a working environment. Attention to detail is crucial for this role as is a willingness to represent the journals at meetings. Experience of proofreading and/or publishing a distinct advantage. Some experience in a publishing environment is highly desirable but not essential.

For further details of these roles please forward your CV and a short letter of application outlining your interest, availability and salary expectations.

This role is initially until December 2020.