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FISH4JOBS

Salary

From £16,000 to £19,000 per year

Location

Oxfordshire

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Excellent opportunity to join leading publisher as a Publishing Administrator providing assistance to a group of development editors and production project managers working on multi-volume reference works.

As Publishing Administrator you will be required to:

* Assist in dealing with correspondence from authors and editors, handling
queries and negotiating deadlines.

* Assist with email and telephone chasing throughout all stages of the
publishing process to ensure schedules are adhered to.

* Maintain individual project databases [Access or other systems], updating
fields to ensure records are accurate and generating reports to assess
project status.

* Send out invitations to authors, log acceptances and declines, and issue
contracts accordingly. Where required, assist with the outsourcing of such
tasks with external suppliers.

* Acknowledge receipt of submitted manuscripts and check them against In-
house specifications to make sure all relevant material is supplied for review
purposes.

* Offering support to production managers and development editors by
monitoring and prioritizing work within the shared mailboxes.

* Liaise with the finance department to organize the payment of fees and
expenses.


To be considered for the Publishing Administrator you will nee to:

* Be enthusiastic and Willingness to help and learn.

* Good team player with a can do attitude

* Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills

* Be a competent user of MS office applications including Outlook, Word,
Excel and Access. Experience of using database systems would be desirable.

* Have good attention to detail and ability to multitask

* Have effective record keeping skills.

* Have a good level of education