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Desk Editor

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom HarperCollins Publishers Full time

**Team**: HQ Non-Fiction

**Salary**: Permanent

**Location**: London, UK

**Closing**: 11:59pm, 15th Jan 2023 GMT

**Perks and benefits**:

- Healthcare
- Retirement benefits
- Wellness programs
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Extra holiday
- Professional development
- Mentoring/coaching
- Paid volunteer days
- Flexible benefits scheme
- Cycle to work scheme

The team are looking for a Desk Editor to take full desk editorial responsibility for a range of titles across all areas of the non-fiction list. This is not a commissioning role, but the position offers a rare opportunity for an accurate, organised, efficient and creative team player to step into a challenging editor’s role and the chance to work with a growing, ambitious collaborative team.

Core Responsibilities:

- Full desk-editorial responsibilities - overseeing copy-editing, proofreading, copywriting and writing text-design briefs for a range of non-fiction titles, including digital formats. Seeing titles through from manuscript to finished copies.
- Managing relevant editorial listings (AIS, Plan G Acquisitions, Metadata, P&Ls) to ensure accurate and up-to-date title/list information is available internally and externally.
- Copywriting, creating and checking sales/marketing material, e.g. catalogues, sales presenters, cover copy etc.
- Liaising with authors, illustrators and managing freelance copy-editors and proof-readers, ensuring plant costs are in line with the budget for each project.
- To work closely with the production team, commissioner and pub ops manager to keep both mono and 4-colour illustrated titles on critical path.
- Briefing jackets and liaising with designers, seeing covers through from start to finish.
- Presenting titles at key stakeholder meetings.
- Work closely with the in-house Publicity & Marketing teams to ensure maximum exposure for authors and titles, according to agreed priority list To maintain strong relationships with authors and agents.
- Reading manuscript submissions, and reporting on these, noting market context.
- Supporting the commissioning team across the list under the Editorial Director’s guidance.

Experience Required:

- Strong desk-editorial and project management experience
- Exceptional copy-editing and proofreading skills
- Experience of typesetter briefing and illustrated book management
- Experience of structural editing which will be developed in the role
- Extremely organised, efficient and self-motivated
- Strong author care and interpersonal skills
- Focus on metadata
- Good design eye
- Budget management
- Editorial schedule management
- Good team player, willing to carry through projects
- Global thinker - someone able to think 'beyond the book' and help us develop digital, international and audio sales
- Excellent communicator
- Detail-orientated and cost-aware

Computer skills: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, InDesign

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