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We currently have an exciting opportunity within our Content Solutions department, working as an Editorial Assistant within the Content Development team in Chiswick, West London.

The role is a 12-month maternity cover, and we can offer flexible working arrangements.

Purpose of the Position

This role supports the Content Development team to deliver a growing portfolio of standardization projects that provide tailored solutions for clients from a diverse range of market sectors. This typically involves supporting the drafting, development, and publication of national standards (e.g. British Standards) and client-sponsored standards (e.g. PASs, Flexes, and private standards). It also includes supporting the delivery of other client-sponsored standardization services such as programmes, standards mapping, and scoping exercises.

You’ll have regular interaction and engagement with team members as well as a variety of industry experts, so excellent communication is also essential. You’ll be confident in working with multiple team members across multiple projects in a dynamic and driven service delivery function.

This role is perfect for someone who has proved themselves extremely organised and effective at communicating and is interested in either starting or furthering their career in a publishing or knowledge solutions environment.

We make a difference in the world every day.

BSI is the UK’s National Standards Body, but we are much more than that. We are an international organization that tackles the problems businesses have by leading the development and embedding of best practice. We help companies access new markets, accelerate innovation, become more resilient and sustainable, and build trusted customer relationships.

Standards protect and create trust, but they are only one aspect of our work. Ensuring conformity with standards and regulatory frameworks accelerates our clients’ ability to improve and grow. Our consulting expertise and insights create a rich environment for innovation.

Key Responsibilities
- Maintain project information in project databases (e.g. SAP).
- Progress content through workflow stages in a content management system.
- Raise new supplier approval requests, client invoice requests, and purchase orders.
- Conduct desktop research into stakeholders and relevant standardization projects.
- Issue project announcements, stakeholder invitations and reminders, and chase responses.
- Maintain project stakeholder databases.
- Arrange and support the project team and project stakeholder meetings, workshops, and interviews.
- Upload consultation drafts and download and collate consultation comments.
- Template, proofread, and assist in the editing of documents.
- Conduct picture research for color-designed publications.
- Issue hard copies or watermarked soft copies of project publications to project stakeholders.
- Support the delivery of projects from allocation to publication being managed by Freelancers.

What we are looking for:
Education & Qualifications
- Qualifications to degree level or equivalent

Skills, Knowledge & Experience
- Managing multiple tasks accurately and delivering to schedule
- Working with content, including good knowledge of working in Word
- Communicating effectively with internal ad external customers
- Working with, and taking direction from, multiple team members
- Excellent planning and organisation skills
- Excellent prioritisation and time management skills, including the ability to keep to tight deadlines
- Excellent IT and administration skills, including word-processing skills
- Experience in working in a publishing environment _(Desirable)_
- Experience in project administration and logistics support _(Desirable)_
- Experience in working with databases such as SAP _(Desirable)_

What we offer

We offer a highly competitive starting salary with 27 days annual leave with the opportunity to increase this to 32 days, company-paid private medical insurance, an excellent company-contributed pension scheme, and a wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle.

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