Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Closing date: 16 Jul 2017
OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
Publications Editor
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £33,420 - £39,896 per annum
Ref: COMMS/04/17
The UK’s leading think tank on international development and humanitarian issues.
The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) has a world-leading reputation for excellence; our researchers work on issues of global concern, such as poverty alleviation, economic transformation, humanitarian action and climate change. Our goal is to shape policy-makers’ thinking about these critical issues and successful communications has a crucial role to play in this. The Publications Editor is central to securing ODI’s impact.
You will ensure that we have quality and consistency across all our outputs through accurate and appropriate editing and by ensuring ODI’s staff are provided with the writing skills and support they need to create influential publications that reach their target audiences. You will be responsible for copy editing and proofreading a range of ODI publications, as well as setting and monitoring institutional standards for quality and tone of voice to ensure brand integrity.
You will be an experienced editor, used to translating complex material into plain English without over-simplifying it. You will also have excellent editorial judgement, and will inspire colleagues, including researchers, to have confidence in your judgements. You will have knowledge of the international issues relevant to this field of work, and will relish the opportunity to turn out first-class, well-constructed writing across ODI’s publication formats.
You will have:
- Degree-level qualification in a related discipline
- Extensive experience of working as an editor for publications, preferably in a research or think-tank organisation
- Proven experience in copy editing a high volume of publications across a number of disciplines relating to international development
- Highly experienced writer, with demonstrable experience of writing for different audiences, including policy/political and academic audiences
- Experience of developing and embedding editorial processes, including use of external suppliers and writing style guidelines
- Experience of managing, assessing and developing external copy editors
- Experience of developing new publications’ series
- Experience of coaching staff from different disciplines in writing excellence
- Wide-ranging knowledge of international affairs, including preferably experience of issues relevant to the Global South
- Demonstrable knowledge of relevant laws for this field of work (libel, plagiarism and copyright)
- Awareness of the latest online publication techniques and the editorial requirements attached to them
- Some experience in editing content specifically designed for the web.
Closing date: 16 July 2017
ODI is an equal opportunities employer Charity Reg. No.228248
How to apply:
For more information, please download an application pack from our website at www.odi.org.uk/jobs](http://www.odi.org.uk/jobs). If you are experiencing difficulties downloading, please telephone 020 3327 7290 or you can send an email to recruitment@odi.org.uk