Assistant Editor

Location: Noida

Position Type: Full time

Reports to: Managing Editor

Division: Travel

PURPOSE OF ROLE

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Follow and adhere to schedule, workflow, and brief for your work and produce accurate, edited copy.

• Carry out a range of editorial tasks as and when required, for example:
  • Research subjects to ensure text’s factual accuracy and depth.
  • Write text as and when required.
  • With guidance, produce accurate edited copy in accordance with the project’s editorial style guide.
  • Proofread pages in accordance with the project’s editorial style guide.
  • Work on indexes and picture credits ensuring attention to detail and accuracy
• Check epubs for correct links and quality assurances.
• Check your own work and maintain good editorial accuracy and quality, from start to finish of the production process (plotters) in adherence to the DK style guide.
• Manage own workload and organize work to meet deadlines and ensure the target dates are met.
• Verify text at every stage. This involves ensuring that all information is checked as thoroughly as possible for factual accuracy.
• Work with/ have regular dialogues with in-house editors, senior team and managers as well as with London team, authors and fact-checkers, when required, to ensure that text is accurate and up-to-date as well as on your status and progress of your work.
• Liaise with designers, cartographers and DTP on the production of the page layouts as and when required.
• Report on overall schedule and weekly progress to Editor, Project Editor, Senior Editor or Managing Editor and senior team. Also flag up any issues that may arise.
• Adapt text for different formats in media if required. Update progress reports; record minutes of meetings and conference calls regularly.
• Maintain excellent communication channels with the entire book team (in-house) for the duration of the project.