Remote Copy-editor/Proofreader

Team Car Care / Jiffylube; Cedar Park (TX); Remote; USD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading service company is searching for a Remote Copy-editor/Proofreader to ensure that content is clear, consistent, and credible. Key responsibilities include correcting spelling and grammar errors, maintaining consistent style across texts, and liaising with clients to gather necessary materials. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills and attention to detail, ensuring that all materials are well presented. This role requires proficiency in IT-based publishing systems.

Qualifications

• Excellent written communication skills.
• Attention to detail in spelling, grammar, and formatting.
• Ability to work with IT-based publishing systems.

Responsibilities

• Correct spelling mistakes and grammatical errors.
• Sub-edit text for consistent style.
• Liaise with clients by phone and email.

Job description

About the job Remote Copy-editor/Proofreader

As a copy-editor or proofreader you'll ensure that material is clear, consistent, complete and credible, and that text is well written, grammatically correct and accessible.

You'll be required to correct spelling, grammar and layout (proofreading), check content, use consistent styles and reword or rewrite (copy-editing).

Responsibilities

• correcting spelling mistakes and grammatical errors
• sub-editing text written by a number of executive to ensure consistent style
• working with IT-based publishing systems and databases, as well as via the internet or from paper manuscripts
• liaising regularly with clients by phone and email
• checking that clients have provided all the required materials and paperwork
• creating artwork briefs to detail the content of illustrations
• ensuring that illustrations are correctly captioned and referred to in the text
• producing or working to a style checklist to ensure consistency in hyphenation, capitalisation, formatting of references, etc
• maintaining awareness of new words or phrases coming into popular usage with a view to ensuring they're appropriate for the readership
• discussing and resolving any potentially libelous sections
• retrieving articles from archives and rearranging within publications
• overseeing the work of indexers, typesetters and designers