Introduction to the role

Collins schools publishing delivers up-to-date and engaging student resources and exceptional teacher support to help UK and International schools tackle new initiatives and utilise the latest technology. The small Product Development team are content developers and editorial project managers, working with authors and freelancers to create print and digital resources from the publisher’s brief to final sign off. We are looking for a Content Editor to support the team in ensuring projects are completed efficiently and to a high standard through a variety of administrative and editorial tasks. This is a vital role with scope to progress quickly and take responsibility for entire stages of the process and small projects with support. It would be suitable for someone looking for their first job in educational publishing.

Key tasks and accountabilities:

• Supports senior project lead with administrative tasks involved in briefing and managing of copy-editing, design and proofreading 

• Runs checks on manuscripts and proofs, manages resolution of queries

• Conducts picture research

• Becomes familiar with budgets and schedules, measuring progress against them and feeding into estimates for their creation

• Manages own time and prioritises tasks with support

• May run small projects with support

• Communicates in an appropriate, clear and timely way with a range of people inside and outside the company

Your first six months

Supporting a variety of projects and working with different colleagues, you will quickly become comfortable with print and digital publishing products and processes at Collins. You will be increasingly familiar with the education landscape and with key considerations for different end users. You will have become confident taking responsibility for successful completion of tasks with increasing autonomy and an understanding of when escalation is required. You will be comfortable asking questions, proposing alternative viewpoints, solutions or improvements and explaining your reasoning and will feel your voice is heard and valued.

 Experience and skills required

• Experience working on tasks needing accuracy

• Organisation and prioritisation while working to deadlines

• Consideration of customer/user experience

• Appropriate professional communication

• Clear, effective and engaging communication skills

• Unswerving attention to detail in products and in planning

• Excellent organisation and time management with realistic goals

•   Proactive in solving problems but knowing when to seek guidance

• Flexibility to juggle a busy workload and prioritise

• Confident with digital systems, documents and spreadsheets

• Genuine interest in education and its potential to change lives

  Benefits

  •  Hybrid working model (3 days in the office)

  • 28 days holiday plus bank holidays

  • Private healthcare cover and life assurance

  • Summer Hours 

  • Free access to HeadSpace, employee assistance programme (24 hour helpline), mental health first aiders, and a wellbeing portal

  • Relocation Rent Support Loan 

  • Employee networks: HC All In (open forum), Elevate (for ethnic minority colleagues), HarperParents, Menopause at Work, Pride at HC, Social Mobility Network and Neurodiversity at Work

  • Unlimited training on our Learning and Development portal

  • Virtual GP and eyecare vouchers

  • Gym membership discount

  • Onsite physiotherapy (London only)

  • Charitable donation matching and 2 volunteering days

  • We're a certified Carbon Neutral company

  • Free e-books and audiobooks, newspaper subscriptions and discounts on books

  • Subsidised canteen and retail discounts

  • Onsite prayer room 

  If you wish to discuss anything regarding this position and/or your application to this role, please reach out directly to stephanie.jemmett@harpercollins.co.uk with subject heading ‘Vacancy Query’ plus the job title and we will aim to get back to you within 5 working days.

  Please note, if you are interested in the role you would need to submit your application via Applied. We do not accept email applications.