The role

Our successful Non-Fiction team are looking for an Editor to edit and oversee a number of complex illustrated books from initial concept to finished product. Subjects cover all areas of trend-led gift and IP publishing, including cookery, lifestyle, humour, and design.

Responsibilities:

• Support the Editorial team in acquiring editors on a range of illustrated books, ensuring that this is carried out to the highest standards of quality and accuracy, to budget and within deadline.

• Prepare cover briefs, write cover copy and information sheets, and check proofs.

• Copy-write and check sales and marketing materials.

• Research and prepare pitch presentations for new business, including liaising with designers internally and externally

• Full desk editorial responsibilities – copy editing, proofreading, copy-writing

• Writing design briefs for a range of fiction titles.

• Seeing titles through from manuscript to finished copies

• Manage budgets, schedules and critical paths

• Manage relevant editorial listings to ensure accurate and up-to-date title/list information is available internally and externally

• Liaise with authors, artists and agents and working with the project editorial team managing freelance copy-editors and proof-readers

• Support the commissioning team across the list

Key Skills/Experience

• Demonstrable editorial experience in illustrated books

• Proven copy editing and proof reading skills

• A good eye for detail

• Strong written skills, able to adapt tone appropriately to each pitch

• Strong visual awareness

• Quark for Mac skills

• Financial awareness. Full familiarity with budgeting and cost-control processes in relation to specific projects and lists

• A good team player who is capable of working on their own initiative.

• Deals well with a mixture of long- and short-term demands.

• Positive self-starter

• Adept team-player. Able to contribute in wider discussions of the Division’s publishing and business

• Passion for innovative publishing, meaningful content and beautiful books