Prepress Coordinator

Company Description

Informa is a leading academic publishing, business intelligence, knowledge, and events business, creating unique content and connectivity for customers all over the world. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100.

Taylor & Francis is one of the world’s largest publishers of high-quality, peer reviewed scholarly journals, books, e-books and reference works. We empower learners, thinkers and doers with trusted knowledge that advances research and enriches lives. We bring together diverse people, ideas and opinions to validate and publish the experts, theories and truths that matter. And we’ve been doing this in an unbroken arc since 1798.

Our purpose is to foster human progress through knowledge. We strongly believe that this requires us to encourage and examine different ideas and voices, so that any work that meets our exacting levels of quality deserves to be included in our publications. This requires open minds, the opportunity for robust debate, and the courage to defend perspectives that stand up to scrutiny, even if they conflict with our personal beliefs or values. Because that’s the only way to find the best obtainable version of the truth and, ultimately, foster human progress. If you agree, then we’d love to hear from you.

**Job Description**:
Taylor & Francis Books is currently recruiting for a Prepress Coordinator to oversee the production of new titles from receipt of the author’s uncopyedited typescript through to delivery of the final content, providing support to external project managers and ensuring new books meet our quality requirements.

**What you’ll be doing**:

- Commissioning, preparing material for, managing and feeding back to external project managers.
- Entering and maintaining up-to-date information on our database.
- Communicating with colleagues in other departments as necessary.
- Controlling and maintaining schedules.
- Quality control of final content.
- Controlling budgets, assessing and coding invoices for prompt supplier payment.
- Liaising with authors if required, and providing necessary support.
- Completing multiple tasks to deadlines.

Full training will be provided.

**Qualifications**:
**What we are ideally looking for**:

- Accustomed to prioritising and working to deadlines.
- Organised and able to multi-task.
- Excellent attention to detail and the ability to identify spelling and grammatical errors.
- An understanding of the importance of maintaining information relied on by others, ideally through experience of using a database.
- A good communicator, both written and verbal, able to represent the company professionally and contribute to the team.
- Basic skills in MS Office including Word, Excel and Outlook, and Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- Ability to problem-solve and work effectively, both on your own initiative and as part of a team.
- Experience of working within budgets.
- An aptitude and enthusiasm for working with new technology and dealing with people, and an ability to adapt well to change.

Additional Information
**What We Offer In Return**:

- A salary of £29,831.99.
- An excellent work/life balance with a fantastic, flexible working culture.
- 25 days annual leave per year, plus an extra day off for your birthday
- 3 additional discretionary days for Christmas each year
- 4 paid volunteering days each year
- Employee assistance programme - offering 24/7 well-being support
- Bonus
- Share Match - Plan that matches every share purchased with two free shares.
- Pension scheme
- Life assurance, plus optical and medical care.

**What you should know**:
You must have the right to live and work in the UK

T&F has multiple options for how employees can work based on their role - be that in the office, at home or somewhere in between.

**Training And Professional Development**:
We’re passionate about ensuring you have all the tools and resources at your fingertips to reach your short and long-term career goals. We’ll support you in your journey by working together on your own bespoke Taylor & Francis Development Plan, ensuring you have the resources, tools, support and coaching that will get you where you want to be.

**Interview process**:
**Being Yourself at Taylor & Francis**:
Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in and value diversity of people and thought, fostering a supportive and inclusive environment where all colleagues can learn and succeed as their true selves. Taylor & Francis recruits, develops, and retains colleagues without regard to any protected personal characteristics or other non-merit based factor.

Or better yet check out our LinkedIn ‘Life’ Page, highlighting our accomplishments, employees, and company culture. It’s also a good way of meeting our recruitment team, who will be happy to advise you on your journey here at T&F.