Editorial Assistant, Books (Singapore)
Full-time
Junior Executive
11 months ago
Routledge is looking for an organised, methodical and motivated Editorial Assistant to join our books editorial team in Singapore. This is an excellen..
Routledge is looking for an organised, methodical and motivated Editorial Assistant to join our books editorial team in Singapore. This is an excellent opportunity to gain a thorough introduction to the academic book publishing process in a demanding role where the assistant will be working on a range of academic books in social science and humanities.
Please submit your application before advert closing date of January 8th 2024
Applications are shortlisted on a rolling basis and we will be interviewing alongside advertising. We therefore encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity.
What you'll be doing:
- Provide administrative support to the Commissioning Editors
- Assist the Editors in sending proposals for review, drawing up author contracts and chasing reviews during the book proposal process
- Provide pre- and post-publication care to authors, including chasing authors to deliver manuscripts, advising on permissions and copyright queries, and checking and passing manuscripts to production
- Keep author and project databases up to date, organizing author book promotion flyers and sending gratis copies to authors and contributors.
- Act as the main point of contact for numerous authors and internal departments
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