Job Description:

• Copy edit academic journal articles on a tight production schedule.

• Guide manuscripts through all production stages from electronic translation through publication.

• Identify and tactfully solve unique editorial situations with authors, journal office staff, and/or supervisors.

• Review author proofs and approve final files for publication.

• Communicate daily with authors, managing editors, and colleagues, including production staff.

• Checks typeset proofs before author review. May review typeset proofs or revised written copy returned by authors and approves or rejects changes.

• May coordinate all or some stages of manuscript editing and proof review up to the time the book is bound and edit and approve catalog and jacket materials with guidance from others.

• Performs other related work as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor's degree.

• Graduate course work.  

Experience:

• A minimum of two years of prior publishing experience in copy editing or proofreading, preferably in scholarly journals or books rather than newspapers or magazines.

Technical Knowledge or Skills:

• Familiarity with the Chicago Manual of Style, XML-based editing, Microsoft Office, and Adobe Acrobat strongly preferred.

Preferred Competencies

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.  

• Work independently and to interact tactfully with authors.

• Work cordially with colleagues at all levels.

• Work concentrate and attend to a highly detail-oriented tasks.

• Focus, despite distractions in environment.

• Work on multiple jobs simultaneously, involving manuscripts for different journals, with different styles and procedures.

• Tact and diplomacy in dealing with authors, editors, and colleagues in other departments.

• Willingness to take direction.

• Willingness to take responsibility for meeting deadlines.

• Background in a foreign language.

Application Documents

• Resume (required)

• Cover Letter (required)

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