Jobs in LUMS, Senior Officer Editing

Senior Officer Editing is required in LUMS Lahore 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.

Major 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

Education Required: Masters from a renowned institution
Experience Required: 2-3 years in relevant area

Skills Required:
Excellent communication and writing skills
Well-versed in the English Language
Well-versed in MS Office

Last Date: 7 December, 2009
Send Resume to: risham.zaigham@lums.edu.pk