Closing date: 25th October 2024
Salary: £27,000 to £29,000 dependent on experience and location (+bonus +benefits)
Manage quality control, liaise with key teams, and help shape the future of learning at Hodder Education.
Hodder Education is the home of accessible, future-proofed educational resources where we put students, teachers and parents at the heart of everything we do. Our goal is to help every teacher and learner across the globe to succeed by creating and delivering high-quality content and support.
Hodder Education is a division of Hachette, one of the largest publishing groups in the UK, with 12 publishing divisions and over 60 imprints. Everyone here is proud to be in the business of opening doors and minds.
What you'll do
The reprint function comprises some Editorial, Design and Production processes. The editor's responsibilities span all the lists published by Hodder Education, and so they will work closely with all the Product and Content teams.
- To liaise with Production, Product Managers, Editorial, Design and Picture Research (as applicable)
- To be the Editorial point of contact for reprints and corrections, and take ownership of the reprint logs/have responsibility for keeping them up to date
- To review Critical Stock Reports against the corrections logs to assess the need for reprint corrections, locating PDFs (or other files)
- To monitor weekly Reprint Status Report and Sign-off Reports from Production and report progress, flag and manage delays
- To run regular schedule reports and other WIP reports as required
- To be the main point of contact for external sources and the Customer Service team, for notification of possible errors; to troubleshoot, resolve or redirect them appropriately and promptly
- To uphold robust quality control standards and to communicate any issues or concerns regarding quality control to the project teams or managers
- Checking/investigating accuracy/validity of corrections before logging
- To mark up reprint amendments for print and/or digital (pdf-only) content, ensuring that corrections are appropriate and checking for any knock-on effects to the surrounding content. To record changes on the reprint corrections logs. This includes version control across series and related titles, logging corrections to related titles as required
- To undertake or delegate proof checking and plotter checking as required
- Liaise with awarding bodies on corrections where required and ensure that processes relating to reprints are followed
- Check file copies and maintain reference library
- Managing corrections to ePubs and replacing ePub files on Boost
What you'll bring
- Excellent command of written English
- Microsoft Office Suite experience
- Organisational
- Planning and prioritising
- Scheduling (desired)
- Understanding of the book production process (desirable)
- Biblio (desirable)
- Attentive to detail (essential)
- A clear communicator in speech and writing (essential)
- Able to work as part of a team (essential)
- Able to complete a task, deliver results (essential)
- Proactive and enthusiastic (essential)
- Displays owner mentality (essential)
- Able to plan and manage own workload (desirable)
- Focused on quality (desirable)
- Quick learner (desirable)
- Proven editorial knowledge and work experience desired
What we offer
Our staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:
- 28 annual leave days per year, increases to 29 days after 2 years' service and goes up to 30 days after 5 years' (+ bank holidays)
- Private medical insurance
- Generous pension schemes
- Rent deposit loans
- 2 community days per year
- Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)
- Retail discounts through Hachette rewards
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Eye care vouchers
- Wide-ranging training library
- Development programmes (including mentoring)
- Up to 70% off book purchases
- A charity bookshelf
- 12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing and religious networks
- Season ticket loans
- And much more!
The role will be based at our London office, Carmelite House, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.
Our commitment
Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.
If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.
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