PURPOSE OF POSITION: The Developmental Editor completes substantive edits and acts as a project manager for authors as assigned by the Director of Product Development to ensure acceptable manuscript through editing and production phases and participates in book acquisitions.Location: On-site at our Corporate Office, located at 1150 Greenwood Blvd, Suite 1000, Lake Mary, FL.
Schedule: Monday – Friday | 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Compensation: $55,000 - $60,000/Salary (depending on skills and experience)SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIESPerforms substantive edits for assigned projects, including content flow and syntax; transitioning; tightening or expanding content as necessary; verification of statistics, scriptures, quoted material, and uncommon terminology; and all other substantive editing steps outlined in the Product Development SOP manual.Assists director as requested on acquisition matters, developing publishing proposals or conceptual outlines for some proposed projects, project managing authors as assigned at time of contract, supervising writing process, ensuring that the completed manuscript matches the conceptual outline approved by the acquisition team.Maintains communication with assigned authors regarding content issues until manuscripts are sent to the printer.Resolves all content issues flagged by copy editors.Provides scheduling input to maintain and track all book projects.Participates in departmental meetings and interdepartmental meetings as required.Maintains Book Group issues of style and quality.Abides by all policies and procedures of Charisma Media.Agrees with Charisma Media’s vision statement, beliefs, and values.
