Assistant editor Work, Jobs in England (with Salaries)

Assistant Editor, HarperNonFiction
HarperCollins UK —London
- £32,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- English
- Project management
- Communication skills
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Assistant Editor
Education Choices Magazine —London
- From £12.71 an hour
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Word
- English
- Bachelor's degree
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Assistant Editor
Clio —London
- Full-time
- Remote
- Life insurance
Editorial Assistant, HarperNorth
News Corp —Manchester
- £25,500 a year
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
3d
Editorial Assistant, Journals
Royal Society of Chemistry —Cambridge
- £30,163 a year
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- Time management
- Annual leave
4d
Assistant Editor, HarperNonFiction
News Corp —London
- £32,000 a year
- English
- Project management
- Communication skills
20h
Production Assistant
Uncovered Group —London
- Monday to Friday
- Hybrid work
- Social media management
- Driving
- Work from home
- Referral programme
Assistant Producer, BBC Audio North
BBC —Salford
- £28,100 - £35,000 a year
- Full-time
- IT
2d
Editorial Assistant, HarperNorth
HarperCollins UK —Manchester
- £25,500 a year
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
Quick apply
4d
Assistant Editor (Features)
NewsUK —London
- Mentoring
- Organisational skills
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee discount
Editorial Assistant - Philosophy
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC —London
- £27,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- English
- Employee assistance programme
2d
Assistant Editor (PhD/Master's) - Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science
MDPI UK —Manchester
- Full-time
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
YouTube Growth Assistant Producer
BBC —Salford
- £28,000 - £38,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Organisational skills
- Communication skills
3d
Assistant Editor (Master's/PhD holder) - Sensors
MDPI UK —Manchester
- Full-time
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
Assistant Editor (Master's/PhD holder) - Engineering
MDPI UK —Manchester
- Full-time
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
Assistant Editor (Master's/PhD holder) - Pharmacy
MDPI UK —Manchester
- Full-time
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
Assistant Editor (Master's/PhD holder) - Plant Sciences
MDPI UK —Manchester
- Full-time
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
Assistant Editor (Master's/PhD holder) - Technology
MDPI UK —Manchester
- Full-time
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
Editor, Homes & Gardens Magazine - 12 Months FTC
Future Publishing —London
- £50,000 - £60,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Project management
- Referral programme
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Junior Marketing & Communications Assistant
17 Bruton Street —London
- Full-time
- Hospitality
- Social media management
- Marketing
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Assistant Editor, HarperNonFiction

HarperCollins UK
London

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Job details

Permanent
£32,000 a year
1 day ago

Qualifications

English
Project management
Communication skills

Full job description

Description

HarperNonFiction is one of the leading commercial Non-Fiction publishing divisions in the UK, with a huge range of bestselling authors. We are looking for a creative, organised and driven individual to join our Editorial team, working across a combination of our Thorsons, Lifestyle, Gift & IP publishing which includes personal development, cookery, health, humour and brand partnership titles. Notable successes across our publishing include How I Cook, Think Like a Monk, Good Energy, Dinosaur Philosophy and The Mini Eggs Cookbook.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to develop their editorial skills and career across a unique range of non-fiction publishing, including book and non-book titles. To be successful in this role you will demonstrate a track record in desk editorial work. You will also enjoy working on your own initiative, have the ability to juggle competing priorities and be able to anticipate the needs of the Publisher in delivering best-in-class publishing, publishing comms and author care. You will be an excellent communicator who combines creative flair with an eye for detail and can work co-operatively within the team.

Key Responsibilities

Editorial

Supporting the Publisher, Publishing Director and wider team to deliver best-in-class publishing and author care
Managing their titles through the editorial and production process while keeping to the critical path
Contributing to structural and line edits on manuscripts
Briefing and liaising with freelancers to organise copy edits, proofreads and indexing
Liaising with production and checking and collating proofs
ebook editorial checks and creating briefs
Helping to organise and support photoshoots for illustrated titles
Preparing cover and launch briefs
Writing cover and catalogue copy
Creating Title Information (TI) sheets as requested, monitoring and updating them
Managing records and optimising metadata across frontlist and backlist titles
Monitoring Amazon to ensure copy and jackets are optimised
Proofreading and checking materials, e.g. covers, author pitches, presenters, TI
Helping manage reprints: responsibilities include organising the re-branding of covers, updating prelims
Editorial admin, such as proof mailings, processing invoices, progressing contracts, clearing permissions, sending out author questionnaires
Working cross-functionally across Sales, Marketing and Publicity teams
Engaging with current events and the literary and media landscape to contribute fresh ideas to our publishing
Reading and reporting on submissions from agents

Administration:
Providing some admin support to the Publisher and Publishing Director, such as:

Looking up sales and TCM figures
Organising purchase orders and processing invoices
Ordering Publication Day presents for authors
Arranging hospitality for key meetings
Taking minutes for the weekly in-house editorial meeting and monthly in-house brainstorming meetings
Providing advance/sample materials to other departments
Running a weekly report to monitor materials/briefs due to/from Ed ops, design and covers

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Solid editorial desk and editorial project management
Good understanding of the publishing industry
Proven interest in commercial trend-led non-fiction in the Thorsons, Lifestyle, gift and IP areas
Excellent attention to detail
Proven ability to manage titles through the desk editing process (including overseeing the copy edit, proofread, index and collating proofs)
Reliable, with the ability to use own initiative
Organised and able to juggle multiple tasks
Excellent command of the English language
Effective communicator at all levels
Customer focused, ensuring the highest level of author care

About HarperCollins UK

With a history stretching back over 200 years, HarperCollins is the second largest consumer book publisher in the world. Here at HarperCollins UK, we publish around 1,500 books a year for readers of all ages and interests.

Our bestsellers include Bernard Cornwell, Adele Parks, Jonathan Franzen, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Memoirs of British prime ministers. Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy. George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. And legendary titles by legacy authors J.R.R. Tolkien, Agatha Christie and C.S. Lewis.

We’re home to the most iconic bears, Paddington, Rupert and Winnie-the-Pooh, and Judith Kerr, Rob Biddulph and Michael Morpurgo, Mr Men & Little Miss, Thomas & Friends and Minecraft for our younger readers.

We have offices in London, Honley, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dublin. In London, we’re in The News Building with News UK. Keeping our historic connection to Glasgow, we’re also based in the Robroyson district where each week, our distribution centre sends up to 3 million books around the world.

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