LUMS
Job Vacancy Announcement
Company Name
Lahore University of Management Sciences
Position
Senior Officer for Editing, Permanent Position
Job Description
Position Purpose
To work on a range of publications, including brochures, journals, magazines and electronic resources which would require compiling along with correcting basic spelling, typographical and grammatical errors (proofreading) , or checking facts and style consistency and undertaking significant rewriting (copy-editing) . To ensure that texts due for publication are well written, grammatically correct and accessible to target audience.
Main Responsibilities
· working with IT-based publishing systems and databases, but also from paper manuscripts, disks or via the internet;
· liaising regularly with internal marketing departments and otherwise by face to face meetings, phone and/or email;
· checking that authors from these internal marketing departments or otherwise have provided all the required materials and paperwork;
· resolving queries directly with the author, e.g. style and text inconsistencies;
· correcting spelling mistakes and grammatical errors;
· creating artwork briefs to detail the content of illustrations;
· ensuring that illustrations are correctly captioned and correctly referred to in the text;
· producing or working to a style checklist to ensure consistency in hyphenation, capitalization formatting of references, etc.;
· sub-editing text written by a number of authors to ensure consistent house style;
· maintaining awareness of new words or phrases coming into popular usage with a view to ensuring they are appropriate for the readership;
· discussing and resolving any potentially libelous sections with the commissioning editor and author;
· retrieving articles from archives and rearranging within publications;
· preparing preliminary pages for the title, contents and preface of a publication;
· overseeing the work of indexers, typesetters and designers;
· ensuring that publications are prepared on budget and to schedule;
· maintaining archives of LUMS publications
Job Location
Lahore
Eligibility Education Masters from a renowned institution
Experience 2-3 years in relevant area
Special Skills
Excellent communication, & writing skills
Well-versed in the English Language
Well-versed in MS Office
Behaviour
Team-oriented
Result-oriented
Accountability
Attention to detail
Ability to adhere to timelines
Deadline to submit resumes 7th December, 2009
Contact
Information
risham.zaigham@lums.edu.pk
