Careers
Any current opportunities are listed below.
Desk Editor
An exciting opportunity to join a small, creative, fast-paced non-fiction publishing team, working on commercial books across a range of subjects from history, popular science and lifestyle to sport, puzzles, humour and craft.
Key responsibilities
- Project managing titles from delivery through to publication, including structural edits.
- Providing thoughtful and responsive author care throughout the editorial process and acting as the main editorial point of contact.
- Hiring and briefing all copy-editors, proofreaders and indexers as per agreed budgets and company style guides.
- Briefing and liaising with designers, illustrators and typesetters as per agreed budgets and briefs.
- Collating and keying in corrections using InDesign.
- Completing final pre-print checks.
- Writing cover copy where needed.
Skills required:
- Keen eye for detail and minimum of two years’ editorial experience in a trade publishing house, ideally working on non-fiction.
- Confident project manager, able to work on time and on budget.
- Impressive knowledge of language and grammar.
- Excellent proofreading and attention to detail.
- Knowledge of book production process.
- Good communication skills, with experience of working in a team and liaising with authors and freelancers.
- Proficient in InDesign.
- Experience working on full-colour books if possible.
Flexible hours: could be full or part-time dependent on candidate availability. Minimum three days a week, at our offices just off Clapham High Street. Editorial tests to be completed as part of the interview process.
Please send a short covering letter and CV to nicki.crossley@mombooks.com by Friday 31 January.