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Junior Desk Editor London 2024

1 month ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Pan Macmillan Full time

Pan has an exciting opportunity for a highly organized and enthusiastic Junior Desk Editor to join the Managing Editorial team. This role encompasses working across Pan's varied Fiction and Non-Fiction publishing programme, including the Macmillan, Pan, Mantle, Tor and Macmillan Business imprints.

This is a great opportunity for a candidate with some publishing experience to grow their desk-editorial skillset and put their skills to work, helping to create books of the highest quality.

Your role

You will be working with the busy Managing Editorial team to bring our Pan publishing programme to life, ensuring pesky typos and misplaced commas are ironed out, and keeping our titles on track.

The role includes managing your own titles through all aspects of the desk-editing and production process, as well as overseeing second formats, reissues and ebooks. It'll suit someone with some experience of project management and excellent editing and proofreading skills, who can work flexibly and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

A typical morning might see you responding to emails from commissioning editors and authors before moving on to artwork checks. You might then check some revised page proofs, marking up corrections for the typesetter. In the afternoon you may attend a progress meeting to discuss schedules with Editorial and Production, and following the meeting you now know when to book a proofreader for one of your titles so you'll be in touch with our brilliant freelancers.

You might then check an ebook file ahead of distribution, check captions and maps in a non-fiction title, or be called on to proofread a pitch document for an exciting new acquisition.

About you

Essential experience and knowledge you'll need to succeed
  • Self-motivated and highly flexible – happy to move between projects as priorities dictate and manage multiple projects effectively
  • An impeccable eye for detail and an excellent understanding of the English language (grammar, punctuation and semantics, and the application of style guides)
  • Excellent copy-editing and proofreading skills
  • A confident communicator with the ability to build strong relationships with teams across the business
  • An understanding of Microsoft Word (tracked changes) and Adobe (for digital mark-up)
  • An excellent problem-solver.
Desirable skills we'd love you to have
  • Experience of commissioning and managing editorial freelancers
  • An understanding of the editorial and production process
  • A broad knowledge of, and interest in, commercial and cross-over fiction and non-fiction, and a love of reading
  • Familiarity with Google for Work (Gmail/Google applications)
  • Experience of working with Biblio would be an advantage.
What you'll get in return

In return we can offer you a range of great projects, a supportive and collaborative working environment, and a competitive salary and benefits package. Some of the benefits we offer:

  • 25 days annual leave increasing with years of service + bank holidays
  • Generous pension scheme
  • Discounted private medical insurance
  • Group income protection scheme
  • Enhanced family pay and leave
  • Flexible working hours and summer hours (early finish on a Friday during summer months)
  • 2 volunteer days per year
  • 75% off all Macmillan books and regular staff book sales (highly reduced rates)
  • Season ticket loan/advance
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Discounts on shopping, Tastecard+ and gym memberships; Christmas club savings
  • Daily free breakfast and monthly company lunch

At Pan Macmillan, we are highly committed to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion at every level of our organization. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. Our efforts to promote DE & I are ongoing, and we continually strive to learn and improve our policies and practices.

Workplace Culture

We pride ourselves not just in winning awards and publishing the bestselling books in the market, but also on the wellbeing and satisfaction of everyone who works with us. This is a company where all voices are heard and new, creative ideas are welcomed.

We seek to recruit and develop talent from all backgrounds, creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. This has a profound impact on our perspective and ideas, encouraging us to learn from each other and to nurture the best talent leading us to publish books that appeal to the broadest possible readership.

Our mission is to publish the very best authors and illustrators successfully and sustainably because we believe that books enrich people's lives and help build empathy and understanding.

Our values

To ensure that everyone who works at Pan Macmillan delivers on our mission and shares the same goals, we have developed a set of values that define our working culture and are the foundation of our publishing. These values were derived in consultation with the whole company and they are deliberately illustrated in a circle to underline a lack of hierarchy in importance.

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