Female Content Coordinator/Editor

Vacancy for Coordinator/ Editor in Children’s Books Publishing Department.

Salary Range: 45-55k

Requirements:

• Candidates must possess a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field and have an excellent command of written English with a minimum of 1 year of experience in editing, proofreading, and content appropriation to ensure that they deliver grammatically correct and technically sound content, overseeing the layout and appearance of content.
• Prior experience with design related work or interest and knowledge of design software is preferred as the projects involve less text and more illustrations or design.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly, accurately, and professionally, both verbally and in writing, and be comfortable collaborating with creative, production, designing team.

Key Responsibilities

• Assisting publishing manager in day-to-day tasks and manage projects by keeping track of everything.
• Checking, improving and finalizing books to make them print ready and performing required tasks like proofreading with a high degree of accuracy, an eye for consistency, and attention to detail, checking for proper punctuation, syntax, grammar, spelling, usage, and style according to guidelines, correcting factual or grammatical errors.
• Developing an extensive knowledge of standard printing guidelines and preferences, effectively becoming a resource as the keeper of the brand.
• Develop and edit content of projects where necessary.
• Coordinating with the designers to check if the manager’s suggestions have been rightly incorporated and that the books get composed in the required way.
• Coordinating for further improvement particularly pertaining to formatting, including heading styles, figure and illustrations, sentence casing, etc.
• Keeping a record of department’s documents.
• Checking tasks are done by composers and designers.
• Effectively prioritizing work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

Benefits:

Leave encashment

Annual Increment and Bonus

Location: Korangi, Karachi

P.S. Shortlisted candidates will be called for a test of their English editing and writing skills.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: Rs45,000.00 - Rs55,000.00 per month

Application Question(s):

• Do you have relevant Bachelor's or Master's degree?
• Do you have strong Written communication and editing skills?

Work Location: In person