Job Description:
* Manage Workflow and Timelines: Oversee the entire process from manuscript to publication, ensuring adherence to agreed timelines and publication schedules.
* Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work closely with authors, editors, typesetters, and cover designers, providing clear guidelines and instructions on client workflows, content processing, typesetting specifications, illustrations, proofreading, and technical standards (e.g., file formats).
* Coordinate Outsourced Work: Manage and monitor tasks assigned to freelancers or external service providers to ensure timely and high-quality deliverables.
* Liaise with Internal Teams and Clients: Communicate effectively with colleagues from the Production, Platforms, and Logistics teams responsible for publication release, as well as client contacts for addressing queries and managing processes.
* Maintain Project Schedules and Quality: Ensure that assigned projects stay on schedule, meet quality standards, and that there is timely communication with the Desk Editing Team Leader and client representatives.
* Administer Project Systems: Handle the administration of assigned projects within the client’s central product information system and manage workflows in both the client’s CMS and internal systems (Asana & PTS).
Job Requirements:
* BA degree in English, Journalism, or related field preferred
* Good working knowledge of MS Office Applications, including file management through Windows Explorer
* Two years of experience proofreading or editing text; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or education from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved
* Working knowledge of XML publishing production workflow / systems an advantage
* Knowledge of MS Word operation an advantage
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