About this role
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES/KEY RESULT AREAS
- To ensure timely, error free and cost-effective publication of books by handling projects from manuscript stage to the final books.
- To ensure completion of assigned editorial tasks within agreed schedules.
- To assist in planning and managing copy-editing schedules of assigned tasks.
- To ensure publication of error-free high-quality books.
- To ensure efficient and professional communication with authors.
- To identify and develop suitable freelance editor/s.
- To ensure harmonious and professional relations with suppliers.
- To ensure timely preparation of required costing, sales briefs.
- To extend full cooperation while handling unbudgeted additional editorial tasks.
- To ensure timely, error free development, review, and sign off of the digital content.
Scope/Nature of Work
1) Editing manuscripts
- Language editing ensuring error-free quality in grammar, spellings and meanings.
- Content editing ensuring error-free quality in content in terms of level and factual accuracy.
- Development of manuscripts (for Editors) – cross-checking with the curriculum, providing the missing features/elements, checking the gradation of a topic across the levels plus competition analysis and inference.
- Visualization of the page/chapter and providing art work briefs related to the content.
- Cross-checking the manuscript with the curriculum and flagging the missing elements.
- Preparing the author query form for missing content and/or any content related query.
2) Proofreading
- Careful proofreading ensuring error-free quality by
- Cross-checking the proofs with the edited manuscripts.
- Checking illustrations with the art work briefs.
- Checking the proofs for all the features and design elements with the style-sheet.
3) Editing and checking digital resources
- Audio
- Scripting audio transcripts from the text.
- Cross-checking the recorded audio files with the transcripts for voice and content accuracy.
- Animations
- Scripting storyboards for animations from the text.
- Cross-checking the animations for quality in content and visuals.
- Interactive exercises, games and slide shows
- Providing briefs for interactive exercises, games and slide shows from the text.
- Cross-checking these with the briefs provided to ensure error-free quality in terms of content and functionalities.
- Also mapping of available digital resources (audio/animations/games/slide shows/interactive exercises) for any new e-book.
- Dynamic Question Banks
- Detailed review and analysis of existing DQBs.
- Creation of new DQBs based on the different assessment patterns as required. SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
- A post graduate in English/Mathematics/Science/Humanities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Conversant with basics of editing and technology.
- Experience in working on Tech platforms will be an advantage.
- Effective organizational skills.
- Performing under strict deadlines. KEY INTERFACES Internal
- Interface with representatives from product, marketing, sales and operations teams within the organization. External
- 3rd Party Vendors – non-commercial supplier relationships focused on operational / project activities