Editorial Assistant

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $50k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Macmillan

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1001 - 5000 employees

📱 Media

📚 Education

Media • Education

Macmillan is a leading global publishing company and home to a wide range of imprints that publish adult and children’s fiction, nonfiction, and educational materials. Part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, Macmillan also operates Macmillan Learning and Macmillan Education, providing interactive course solutions, higher education content, language learning, and school curriculum publishing across dozens of countries. The company focuses on supporting authors, educators, students, and institutions with world-class content and digital learning tools.

📋 Description

• Provide administrative support for editorial director and executive editor, including setting up meetings • Shipping packages, managing the imprint library and backlist • Responding to queries, liaising with other departments, taking minutes, drafting acquisitions memos and P&L’s • Monitoring book production schedules and due dates, running sales and title reports • Prepare and traffic forms and requests related to all parts of the publishing process for the managers • Organizing materials for presentations for internal and external meetings, including sales launch and edit meetings • Maintain professional and responsive communication with authors and agents • Log, read, and evaluate submissions • Provide editorial support such as reading, proofreading, and line editing • Write copy for sales materials, tipsheets, catalogs, book jackets, online feeds, metadata, etc.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Proofreading or copy editing experience a plus • Ability to prioritize, respond to shifting and fast-paced environment, and work independently • Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Google Workspace programs • Demonstrated interest in the children’s book market • Previous book publishing experience/internships a plus • Previous media or entertainment experience/internships a plus