Editorial Assistant

Job description

Your primary responsibility will be to work with our editors, providing support for all aspects of the author–publisher relationship, from the contract to the finished book, including:
• Overseeing the critical path for books
• Liaising with authors and agents
• Second-editing texts and collating author corrections
• Drafting promotional and marketing copy
• Clearing image and text permissions
• Performing pre-print checks, fact checks and proofreading copy
• Soliciting endorsements for new titles
• Maintaining our title database and metadata
• Working with other members of the Oneworld team on editorial, design, production, sales, marketing and publicity as required
• Researching new commissions

We’d love it if you had…

We have a new position for an editorial assistant, working on our non-fiction titles, including history, social issues and popular science. This would be an ideal position for an early-career publishing professional to work within a collaborative and supportive team.

We are looking for a bright, hardworking, self-motivated graduate with initiative, excellent proofreading and copyediting skills, good general knowledge, strong organisational capabilities, a flair for writing copy and demonstrable interpersonal skills. You will be proficient with Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat. The ideal candidate will understand the importance of attention to detail at all stages of the publishing process.

In office Mondays–Thursdays, work from home on Fridays.

Employer details

Oneworld is one of London’s leading independent publishers. We publish around 100 new books a year across a range of non-fiction, literary and genre fiction and children’s fiction. In recent years, our titles have won three Booker Prizes, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Indie Book Award, the Orwell Prize for Non-Fiction, the Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the Year and the Royal Society Science Books Prize.

Please submit your CV and covering letter to the non-fiction publishing and editorial directors, Sam Carter & Cecilia Stein

Email: jobs@oneworld.co.uk