Editor - Foundational Courses

Oxford University Press; Dadri; On-site; INR 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

OUP in the Education division seeks an editorial professional to manage manuscript editing, proofreading, and digital content development for school education materials. The role focuses on ensuring high-quality publications, coordinating with authors and freelance editors, and maintaining schedule discipline.

The candidate should have postgraduate education in a relevant field, strong writing and communication skills, and comfort with editorial technology.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate in English/Mathematics/Science/Humanities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Conversant with basics of editing and technology.
• Experience in working on Tech platforms will be an advantage.
• Effective organizational skills.
• Performing under strict deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Oversee timely, error-free and cost-effective publication of books from manuscript to final product.
• Ensure completion of editorial tasks within agreed schedules.
• Plan and manage copy-editing schedules for assigned tasks.
• Publish error-free high-quality books and maintain professional communication with authors.
• Identify and develop suitable freelance editors and manage supplier relations.
• Coordinate costing, sales briefs, and support digital content development.
• Review and sign off on digital resources including audio, animations, and interactive elements.

Skills

Editing & proofreading

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Deadline-driven

Tech platform experience

Education

Postgraduate in English/Math/Science/Humanities

Job description

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Division: Education

Department: Product_School Education

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES/KEY RESULT AREAS

• To ensure timely, error free and cost-effective publication of books by handling projects from manuscript stage to the final books.
• To ensure completion of assigned editorial tasks within agreed schedules.
• To assist in planning and managing copy-editing schedules of assigned tasks.
• To ensure publication of error-free high-quality books.
• To ensure efficient and professional communication with authors.
• To identify and develop suitable freelance editor/s.
• To ensure harmonious and professional relations with suppliers.
• To ensure timely preparation of required costing, sales briefs.
• To extend full cooperation while handling unbudgeted additional editorial tasks.
• To ensure timely, error free development, review, and sign off of the digital content.

Scope/Nature of Work

1) Editing manuscripts

• Language editing ensuring error-free quality in grammar, spellings and meanings.
• Content editing ensuring error-free quality in content in terms of level and factual accuracy.
• Development of manuscripts (for Editors) – cross-checking with the curriculum, providing the missing features/elements, checking the gradation of a topic across the levels plus competition analysis and inference.
• Visualization of the page/chapter and providing art work briefs related to the content.
• Cross-checking the manuscript with the curriculum and flagging the missing elements.
• Preparing the author query form for missing content and/or any content related query.

2) Proofreading

• Careful proofreading ensuring error-free quality by
• Cross-checking the proofs with the edited manuscripts.
• Checking illustrations with the art work briefs.
• Checking the proofs for all the features and design elements with the style-sheet.

3) Editing and checking digital resources

• Audio
  • Scripting audio transcripts from the text.
  • Cross-checking the recorded audio files with the transcripts for voice and content accuracy.
• Animations
  • Scripting storyboards for animations from the text.
  • Cross-checking the animations for quality in content and visuals.
• Interactive exercises, games and slide shows
  • Providing briefs for interactive exercises, games and slide shows from the text.
  • Cross-checking these with the briefs provided to ensure error-free quality in terms of content and functionalities.
• Also mapping of available digital resources (audio/animations/games/slide shows/interactive exercises) for any new e-book.
• Dynamic Question Banks
  • Detailed review and analysis of existing DQBs.
  • Creation of new DQBs based on the different assessment patterns as required.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

• A post graduate in English/Mathematics/Science/Humanities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Conversant with basics of editing and technology.
• Experience in working on Tech platforms will be an advantage.
• Effective organizational skills.
• Performing under strict deadlines.

KEY INTERFACES

• Internal: Interface with representatives from product, marketing, sales and operations teams within the organization.
• External: 3rd Party Vendors – non-commercial supplier relationships focused on operational / project activities.

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