Editorial assistant, Bloomsbury Digital Resources

Closing date for applications: Monday 31st March at 11.59pm

Contract: Full-time permanent position

Salary: £27,000 per annum

Are you a highly organised individual with a passion for project management and editorial processes? Bloomsbury is seeking a detail-oriented individual to support their Major Reference Work programme.

Part of the Non-Consumer Division, Bloomsbury Digital Resources is committed to serving a global community of students, scholars, instructors, and librarians by providing creative online research and learning environments that deliver excellence and originality.

Whether it be primary documents, critical texts, historical archives, or the latest in video and audio resources, we are committed to enhancing the research experience with innovative, engaging, and dynamic digital resources of the highest quality. The focus will be:

• Supporting the Academic Editorial team in achieving their revenue and profitability targets
• Supporting the timely delivery and release of the Major Reference Work (MRW) programme
• Project-managing MRWs from contract stage through to handover to production using Bloomsbury Content Manager, our bespoke system for MRW workflows

Responsibilities

• Issuing contracts to MRW contributors
• Preparing and distributing editorial guidelines documentation to MRW editors and contributors
• Maintaining oversight of MRWs in Bloomsbury Content Manager to ensure projects progress smoothly and according to their schedules
• Liaising with MRW contributors to ensure they have the information they require to submit their articles; attending to contributor queries
• Managing the flow of information and content to MRW editors and contributors to ensure that all content is complete and has been reviewed and revised according to the directions of the MRW editors
• Collating and briefing manuscripts and image content to production
• Managing copyright permissions for images and other third-party content
• Liaising with external editors to ensure that queries are answered and issues are addressed
• Reporting to the Editorial Director for MRWs on the progress of the programme, highlighting issues with individual projects
• Producing minutes from meetings with external editors and/or internal stakeholders, as required

Knowledge, skills and experience

Will have knowledge and/or experience of:

• Relevant processes, systems and websites
• Management of own workload
• Basic project management
• Interest in developing industry and market awareness

Skills and behaviours

• Calm and measured response under pressure
• Highly organized with the ability to multi-task, combined with ability to prioritize appropriately
• Attention to detail, accurate proof reading
• Effective team-working, networking and relationship-building
• Handling and communicating information sensitively and professionally
• Excellent communication (oral and written) to internal and external contacts
• Commercial awareness and customer focus
• Places a high value on quality of content, author care, company reputation and sustained customer relationships

Additional information

The role is based at our Oxford office, Kemp House, Chawley Park, Cumnor Hill, Oxford OX2 9PH on a hybrid-working pattern of 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred). Allocated office days for this role are:

This position is eligible for Bloomsbury’s Rental Deposit Loan Scheme. To assist candidates who want to start and to establish a career in publishing, Bloomsbury offers an interest-free rental deposit to support securing somewhere to live. The rental deposit loan can be up to £3,000 and will be paid back over 2 years.

Please apply via the ‘APPLY NOW’ button with your CV (Word or PDF format only) and detail how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role by Monday 31st March.

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Bloomsbury reserve the right to close the role early if we exceed the required number of applications

Bloomsbury Benefits

As well as a fantastic opportunity to join a global award-winning organisation, Bloomsbury offers the following competitive benefits package:

Working Pattern

• Hybrid working pattern of: 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred)

Holidays

• 25 days holiday
• 3.5 days Christmas company holiday

Other Benefits

• Two paid Personal Wellness Days
• Flexible Fridays – take Friday afternoon off by working an additional 3 hours and 30 minutes earlier in the week
• Work Anywhere Fortnight - For two weeks of any calendar year. The minimum period for Working Anywhere is one week, the maximum period is two weeks.
• Season Ticket Loan
• Share Save Scheme
• AXA Healthcare Plan (Private Medical Insurance)
• Peppy Health App
• In-house Doctor
• Eye Care Voucher Scheme

Company culture – Employee Voice Meetings, Staff Networks (Bloom, Accessibility, Mental Health, Pride, and Parents, Guardians and Carers, Multi-Faith) and 13 Mental Health First Aiders trained across the UK offices, Publishing Events and access to free Publishing Resources

For additional benefits see our careers page.

Bloomsbury is a place where anyone of any background, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender identity, age, ability, or socio-economic status can thrive, feel comfortable, and be heard and accepted. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please flag to the recruitment team if required

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.

The Book Trade Charity provide financial assistance for people looking to get into the publishing industry; you can find more information and talk directly here: http://booktradeentrysupport.org

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