Editorial Assistant, Bloomsbury Academic
The Bookseller
- Bloomsbury, Central London
- £27,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Supporting the team to meet annual commissioning, publishing and profitability targets
- Helping to coordinate and develop textbooks and digital resources through all stages of the publishing process
- Liaising with authors and academic advisors, and colleagues across editorial, production, marketing, sales and digital
- Using publishing systems to set up titles and manage editorial processes
- Assisting in the editorial workflow for digital content, including using content management systems
- Conducting course, competitor and other market research
- Managing the peer review process for proposals and draft manuscripts
- Assessing and preparing manuscripts for handover to production
- Checking content for third party material and arranging copyright permissions
- Briefing cover designs and writing cover copy
- Dealing with queries and checking proofs for titles in production
- Organised with excellent prioritisation skills: is able to balance a varied workload effectively
- An excellent communicator (written and verbal)
- Able to build effective working relationships with colleagues and external contacts
- Meticulous in their attention to detail and accuracy
- Self-motivated with a positive, can-do attitude
- Able to work well as part of a team and independently
- Good at finding solutions to problems and using their initiative
- Numerate, with experience of using Microsoft Office applications such as Outlook, Word and Excel
- hybrid working pattern of: 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred)
- 25 days holiday
- 3.5 days Christmas company holiday
- Two paid Personal Wellness Days
- Flexible Fridays - take Friday afternoon off by working an additional 3 hours and 30 minutes earlier in the week
- Season Ticket Loan
- Share save Scheme
- In-house Doctor
- Eye care Voucher Scheme