Summary of the Managing Editorial Assistant, One More Chapter job at HarperCollins UK

Key Responsibilities

• Project manage titles to publication schedules and consistently deliver high quality books
• Be the central point of contact for editorial freelancers and organise the freelance schedule for copyediting and proofreading
• Ad hoc proofreading
• Liaise with external stakeholders over manuscripts at each stage of the editorial process for copyedits and proofreads
• General admin duties and correspondence
• Undertake the production work of titles and liaise with internal departments where required, specifically publishing operations, production, audio, rights and design
• Typeset all titles for print books and eBook using specialist software called Vellum (no prior experience of this software required)
• Responsibility for updating backlist files for promotions and reprints
• Creating and receipting POs and setting up suppliers on internal systems
• Responsibility for ordering author copies from the warehouse to authors, as well as ordering in copies for the editorial team
• Responsibility for monthly submissions to publishing publications e.g. The Bookseller
• Responsibility for title submissions for the HarperCollins group newsletter
• Onboarding new freelancers through RiskCenter

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to express technical and creative vision clearly
• Excellent organisational skills and experience of working to deadlines
• Advanced MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint
• Remains calm under pressure, able to work at pace and to tight deadlines
• Able to prioritise and manage multiple schedules
• Capacity to learn and be adept at using multiple editorial and IT systems
• Happy to work independently as well as part of a team
• Dynamic and innovative, not afraid to do things differently
• Excellent attention to detail
• Active problem solver