Content editor Work, Jobs in London (with Salaries)

Assistant Editor, Fiction (12 month FTC)
HarperCollins UK —London
- £31,500 - £32,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Word
- Communication skills
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Assistant Editor
Clio —London
- £35,800 - £48,400 a year
- Full-time
- Remote
- Life insurance
Assistant Editor, Fiction (12 month FTC)
News Corp —London
- £31,500 - £32,000 a year
- Microsoft Word
- Contracts
- Communication skills
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Editorial Assistant
Rila Publications Limited —London
- From £26,000 a year
- Full-time
- Bilingual
- Social media management
- Organisational skills
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Editor (10 month FTC)
Hachette —London
- Preschool
- Organisational skills
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
Assistant Content Editor (Copy) Crystal Ski - 12 Months Fixed Term Contract
TUI Group —Surbiton
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Organisational skills
- Communication skills
- Resort
7d
Editor, Subscriber Content
Newsweek —London
- Weekend availability
- Remote
- AI
- Communication skills
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Creative Solutions Editor
Monocle —London
- Full-time
- Travel
- Café
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
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Junior Content Editor
Founders Forum Group —London
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Bachelor's degree
- AI
- Analytics
- Annual leave
- Work from home
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Editorial Assistant
EMJ —London
- £30,000 a year
- Monday to Friday
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Word
- Writing skills
- English
- Work from home
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4d
We are looking for editors of short videos (TikTok / Reels / Shorts)
ClipForge —London
- £40 - £70 an hour
- Part-time
- In-person
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2d
Middle East Editor
The New York Times —London
- Organisational skills
- Communication skills
- Editing
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Annual leave
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Assistant Content Writer
Superyachts.com —London
- £25,000 - £34,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Writing skills
- Communication skills
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7d
Video Game Content Designer (Contract, Part-Time)
Soulbound —London
- £12,000 - £16,000 a year
- Remote
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Photo Editor
Warner Bros. Discovery —London
- Weekend availability
- Hybrid work
- In-person
Junior Video Editor
Host Broadcast Services (HBS) —London
- English
- Travel
- In-person
Editor
ITP Media Group —London
- Organisational skills
- Leadership
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Social Media & Marketing Executive
Duck & Dry —London
- £30,000 - £39,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Social media management
- AI
- Flexitime
- Work from home
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Commissioning Editor, News Review (12 Month FTC)
NewsUK —London
- Presentation skills
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee discount
6h
Direct Response Copywriter/Creative Strategist
Elavate —London
- £60,000 - £70,000 a year
- Remote
- AI
- Analytics

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Assistant Editor, Fiction (12 month FTC)

HarperCollins UK
London

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Job details

Fixed term contract
£31,500 - £32,000 a year
2 days ago

Qualifications

Content quality assurance review
Microsoft Word
Stakeholder liaison
Internal department liaison
Copy editing
Content creation
Purchase order creation
Editing quality assurance passes
Content management
Editorial workflow management
Project management experience
Communication skills
Copywriting

Full job description

Description

We have a brilliant opportunity to work with our bestselling General Fiction list, working to support our two Publishing Directors and a Commissioning Editor, as part of our busy, friendly General Fiction team. It’s a role that offers a broad range of responsibilities, with a focus on editorial support for some of our key brand authors, production support for the busy list, and some direct contact with authors and management of their publishing. The role also includes administrative tasks across the General Fiction team and an ability to prioritise is key. We’re looking for someone with practical editing experience in a commercially focused publishing team, who is passionate about popular fiction, romance and great storytelling.

Key Responsibilities

Editorial:

Working closely with the Publishing Directors to give editorial support on their authors
Managing all aspects of production on their titles and seeing them through the production process, including booking freelancers
Doing structural and line edits as needed or alongside the Publishing Directors and working with authors
Checking copy-edits, resolving queries and collating page proofs
Completing ebook editorial checks
Writing and preparing cover and launch briefs, and cover copy
Creating Advance Information sheets to key sales deadlines, monitoring and updating them
Inputting metadata across all relevant titles and monitoring it – including checking Amazon - to ensure it remains relevant and up to date
Proof-reading cover runouts, author presentations, short stories and other texts, as well as sales and marketing material, e.g. catalogues, rights sheets, presenters
Creating author questionnaires, reading group questions and other extra content
Reading and reporting speedily on submissions shared by the Publisher or Publishing Director

Administration:

Liaison on Publishing Directors’ behalf with authors, agents, and other departments
Provide advance/sample materials to internal divisions
Organising purchase orders and processing invoices
Supplying TCM figures, international sales figures and overall sales analysis
Raising new contracts
Ordering gratis copies for authors
Taking minutes when necessary at inhouse meetings
Sending out proofs for advance quotes

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Previous experience in Trade Editorial
Project-management experience – effective at multi-tasking, with the ability to cope in a pressurised environment
Direct liaison with authors, agents, and other departments within the publishing company
Editing and writing copy experience
Reliable and demonstrates initiative
Effective communicator at all levels
A keen eye for detail
Advanced MS Word and Intermediate Excel and Outlook

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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