Desk Editor, Adult Publishing - London, United Kingdom - Pan Macmillan

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This is an exciting opportunity to join an award-winning publisher at a key point of growth.

We're looking for an organized and detail-oriented individual who's passionate about working across a variety of genres. This is an important and varied role for someone who enjoys seeing projects through to completion accurately and effectively.


The role:


You will be working with the Managing Editorial team to bring our Adult publishing programme to life, ensuring pesky typos and misplaced commas are ironed out.

The role includes overseeing backlist titles and the reissues programme as well as managing your own frontlist titles through all aspects of the editing and production process.

The role is all about the detail and requires someone with first-rate proofreading and copy-editing skills.

It is also, in part, a support role, and the right person will be happy to carry out general admin tasks to help with the running of the department, such as proofreading TIs (Title Information sheets) and catalogues, and checking sales and marketing materials, as necessary.


The successful applicant will have:


  • Previous deskediting or editorial assistant experience
  • Excellent copyediting and proofreading skills
  • An impeccable eye for detail and an excellent understanding of the English language, i.e. grammar, punctuation and semantics
  • An understanding of the production process and the ability to draw up, manage and renegotiate schedules in line with the critical path
  • Be selfmotivated and highly flexible happy to move between projects as priorities dictate and manage multiple projects effectively
  • A strong understanding of Microsoft Word (track changes) and Adobe (for digital markup).

We'd love it if you had:

  • A passion for working as part of a team, including strong communication skills
  • Experience of working with Biblio would be an advantage.

Salary starting from:
£31,000 onwards

Closing Date: 28 August 2023

Hiring Manager:
Laura Carr, Managing Editor


This is a full time, permanent role, and will be based in our offices in Farringdon, London, with some flexibility to work from home each week.


All applicants must be able to demonstrate the right to live and work in the UK in order to be considered for this role.

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