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Duke University Job Description: |
Job Title: ASSIST MANAGING EDITOR |
Job Code: 1051 |
FLSA: E |
Job Level: 10 |
Revised Date: 03/01/2021 |
Job Family: JF 28 |
Ensure editorial quality and maintain production timelines for 25 to 30 trade and scholarly books per year at Duke University Press.
Responsibility for timely project management of editorial, proofreading, and indexing on assigned list of books, from manuscript transmittal to check of final files for printing.
Maintain schedules throughout production; update managing editor with weekly information on all titles for schedule maintenance information in Title Management.
Keep up-to-date reports; responsible for informing managing editor and EDP director about scheduling issues.
Coordinate final book dates with EDP director and managing editor, as well as designers working on individual titles.
Responsibility for overall quality of editing, proofreading, and production of individual list of books.
Evaluate manuscripts for completeness at assignment; prepare analysis of copyediting needs in collaboration with authors.
Hire and supervise copyeditors, proofreaders, indexers as needed; send copyedited manuscripts to authors for review; review author changes to copyedited manuscripts; prepare manuscripts for designer for interior text design; send manuscript into typesetting; send page proofs to authors and proofreaders for proofreading; review author changes in proofs; edit indexes; check all subsequent passes of proof to ensure accuracy; check final PDF files for printing; check advance copies.
Provide timely and thorough feedback to freelancers about their performance.
Supply well-edited and well-prepared manuscripts for composition; oversee work done by compositors to ensure quality of pages and final files.
Monitor costs for books produced, ensuring quality, schedule and budget.
Determine copyediting and proofreading budget, and schedules for freelance services.
Approve invoices; keep relevant Press staff informed of budget or author issues that could affect costs.
Act as liaison between authors and Duke University Press throughout the production process.
Establish contact with author at project assignment; discuss manuscript with author before copyediting; communicate with author about copyediting; troubleshoot with author as necessary throughout copyediting, page proof, and index stages.
Communicate schedules to authors and keep authors informed about upcoming stages as well as potential delays.
Edit and proofread cover copy.
| Education/Training: | Work requires communication skills, plus analytical and organizational skills generally acquired through completion of a bachelor's degree program. |
| Experience: | Work generally requires one year of editorial experience in a publishing or related setting to acquire skills necessary to assist in managing and coordinating a variety of tasks such as copy editing, researching and evaluating technical or scientific manuscripts for accuracy, clarity, content, and completeness, monitoring production schedules, proofreading galleys and page proofs and checking layout, and illustrations. OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE. |
| Skills: | N/A |
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