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Production Editor

Salary range: up to £26,000 dependent on experience
London

Jessica Kingsley Publishers is an award-winning publisher committed to social change, publishing over 200 books a year. We are looking for a well-organised, enthusiastic and highly motivated person to join us as a Production Editor.

Working within a positive and busy Production department, this position will suit a candidate with a great eye for detail, impeccable grammar and spelling and effective time-management skills who has an interest in the books we publish, and will offer scope for considerable autonomy and responsibility.

You will be responsible for taking your allocated projects through all stages of production up to publication, ensuring all books are produced on time, to budget and to a high quality, and communicating effectively with authors throughout the production process.

You will foster and maintain effective relationships with external suppliers, briefing and overseeing the work of all freelance editors, proofreaders and indexers, and collaborate closely with our team of Production Controllers to produce exceptional products.

This role is based in our London office, close to King’s Cross station.

To apply, please email your CV and covering letter to victoria.peters@jkp.com

Closing date: Tuesday 31st July 2018.

Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are only able to get in touch directly with shortlisted candidates. If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please do let us know.

Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.

Production Editor

Hachette UK, London
Full-time
Trade
Production

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