Assistant Editor | Education

Assistant Editor | Education. Our client, a market-leading, international publisher of educational titles is seeking to recruit an Assistant Editor to support and assist in the development of new and existing content for a number of online and blended course development projects.

You will provide support on assigned projects and may be responsible for your own projects. Reporting to the Content Development Manager, you will work closely with freelance resources and will be part of a cross functional team.

Responsibilities will include:

• Provide editorial support to Content Development Manager and Editor
• Rights and Permissions: Carry out diligent rights and permissions checks
• Editorial:  Commission and brief freelancers as required and supervise copy-editing
• Ad hoc picture research: assist with picture research as required
• Set up new suppliers, process PO requests and process invoices
• In-house copy editing tasks as required

You will have good experience of working to deadlines, some experience of using database systems and will be familiar with using MS Office.

Educational publishing experience in an editorial or production capacity will be an advantage as will any experience you have of working with a digital technology company.

Excellent communication, organisation and time management skills will be important as will your ability to work as part of a team.

For further details and a job description, please contact Donald Smith at d.smith@inspiredselection.com