Commentaries Editor

Job Summary
To prepare for publication, material or works/products to agreed quality standards and agreed deadlines and within approved budgetary constraints, ensuring that the text is free of grammatical errors, its exposition coherent and unambiguous and its referencing accurate and consistent.
Key Responsibilities
- Assume editorial responsibility for such works/products as may be assigned to you, ensuring that they are completed for publication in accordance with the agreed publishing schedule and within budget
- Prepare or help prepare project plans as required and update them as necessary
- Alert the managing editor immediately of any changes or developments that may affect the publishing schedule, i.E. that may delay or accelerate publication, reduce or increase its cost, or result in a workload that deviates from that budgeted for
- Help with the design/creation of sample pages for new works/products as required
- Consult and negotiate with the author(s) of assigned works/products regarding any material changes to such works/products
- Update, edit, check, proofread or correct each assigned work/product in accordance with the relevant agreed project plan, observing the conventions of the work/product concerned provided they accord with general publishing conventions or with other acceptable LexisNexis conventions
- If the conventions of an assigned work/product deviate from general publishing conventions or from other acceptable LexisNexis conventions, alert the managing editor to that fact
- Check the accuracy of references to legislation in assigned works/products
- Liaise with and brief service providers, whether internal or external, to ensure proper and timely preparation, completion and publication of assigned works/products
- Ensure that work performed by internal or external service providers for an assigned work/product meets agreed quality standards and conforms to the approved publishing conventions of that work/product
- Compile supplementary matter (e.G. table of contents, table of cases, table of statutes, bulletin, control/instruction sheet, etc.) or check such matter as required
- Check the correctness of the information on covers, binder mock-ups or proofs, or in marketing or associated material, as required
- Check printers’ proofs and advance copies of assigned works/products and of such other works/products as the managing editor may direct
- Ensure that content of the printed and digital/electronic versions of assigned works/products that are published in print and electronic media matches or corresponds in every material respect
- Perform a quality control check on such works/products as the managing editor may direct
- When required, analyse competitor works/products with a view to suggesting improvements to LexisNexis works/products
- When required, perform any of the above or other related functions in respect with the works/products of other departments
Administrative Responsibilities
- Monitor production costs of assigned works/products, ensuring that they do not exceed the budget allocated to those works/products
- Ensure that invoices for any work done on an assigned work/product are submitted in good time and are accurate and complete
- Complete a pre-press pass sheet for each assigned work/product before releasing the latter for publication
- Inform Electronic Publishing that an assigned work/product that is to be published in electronic or digital format has been released for publication and supply Electronic Publishing with the relevant files or with access to those files
- Attend promptly to queries relating to an assigned work/product
- Prepare or update training manuals when required
Desired Experience
- 3 to 5 years’ experience in editorial
- Excellent command of English language
- Good communication and interpersonal skills, tactfulness and diplomacy
- An eye for detail
- Ability to prioritise multiple projects or tasks such that the agreed publishing schedule is met
- Ability to plan and organise personal workload
- Ability to work to deadlines and under pressure
- Ability to work independently and with a minimum of supervision
- Competence in MS Office, especially MS Word
Preferred Qualifications/Requirements
- LLB or equivalent legal degree/Bachelor’s Degree with a major in English
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