Editorial Assistant at Today's Woman

The editorial assistant role is the usual starting point for careers in editorial work. They support senior editorial staff in the administration of the commissioning, planning and production of publications.
 
Duties include:
 
    supporting editorial staff in all activities leading to publication, including acting as a personal assistant to commissioning editors and overseeing tasks such as issuing contracts and dealing with royalties;
    liaising with other in-house teams, writers, photographers, printers, designers and production staff to negotiate and monitor timescales for stages in the publishing process;
    dealing with the administration of work commissioned to freelance writers, picture researchers, photographers, stylists and illustrators;
    organising and researching projects to tight deadlines;
    summarising written material;
    correcting manuscripts;
    obtaining rights to use materials from other publications;
    using computers for word processing, desktop publishing and email;
    dealing with phone and email queries, e.g. from writers and the public;
    filing, photocopying and other routine administrative tasks.
    writing articles and reports;
    amending articles;
    collating the work of several authors;