Editor - DK Travel

Closing date for applications: 23rd March 2025

Salary: £31,000 depending on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus bonus and benefits

Are you an Editorial Assistant ready for your next step up?

The DK Travel division is seeking an enthusiastic and creative individual to work across our expanding list of travel guides and gift and inspiration books.

As an Editor, you will play a crucial role in delivering a range of projects, from guidebook updates to exciting new content, as well as conducting market research and creating sales materials. This would be a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Editorial Assistant to step up and further develop their editorial and project management skills within a supportive team environment.

We are looking for someone who is eager to learn and grow, with a genuine passion for travel and travel publishing. You should have proven experience in editorial publishing and be ready to embrace new challenges.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• An understanding of the fundamentals of the publishing process, specifically commissioning, editing and producing visual editorial content
• Proven ability to project-manage a list of titles, keeping to schedules and budgets
• Copy-editing, proofreading and research skills
• The ability to communicate clearly and effectively
• An understanding of what makes good content
• Experience working with InDesign will be advantageous

Benefits

We have a range of benefits to reflect our commitment to our people, some of which are:

• 25 days paid holiday entitlement in year one, plus bank holidays
• Generous pension scheme
• Volunteering policy and charity matching
• Employee assistance programme
• 60% discount on company books
• Cycle to work scheme and discounted gym membership
• Flex Fridays (1pm Finish subject to certain criteria being met)
• Shopping discounts
• Up to 30 days remote working from abroad
• And we plant a tree for every new employee to our business

Additional information

This role reports directly to the Editorial Director, and you will also support and collaborate with members of the wider editorial team.

In line with DK’s hybrid working approach, this role is currently office-based for a minimum of three days a week, with the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.

DK is a member of the disability confident scheme. We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies.

DK supports flexible working and has introduced a new ‘smart-working’ policy with a hybrid approach of working weekly from home and in DK’s office.

To apply

If this sounds like the role for you, please apply by submitting your CV and cover letter by 23 March 2025.

In your cover letter, we want to get to know you better, so please include...

• the DK book you have most enjoyed and why

and one of the following:

• a travel book published in the last year that you wish you could have worked on
• a book that you’re proud to have contributed to

DK is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the varied communities that read our books across the world. We encourage applications from all individuals, regardless of age, religion, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality or social background. DK is proud to announce that we have adopted The Halo Code.

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.