Editorial Assistant (Children's)
About The Position
If you're looking to grow your career at a company where creativity meets legacy, ABRAMS is the place for you. As a trailblazer in illustrated publishing since 1949, ABRAMS continues to set the standard for beautifully crafted books across art, design, culture, and children’s literature. We’re looking for an Editorial Assistant to join our Children’s Editorial team. The Editorial Assistant will provide editorial and administrative assistance to the editorial director and executive editor for the children’s group, focusing on picture books, board books, non-fiction, and novelty books.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
- Ability to work independently and follow through consistently on assignments.
- Detail-oriented: Position requires accuracy and careful attention to detail.
- Excellent grammar, spelling, communication, and writing skills.
- Must be highly organized, energetic, and able to juggle multiple priorities efficiently and calmly.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is needed.
- Demonstrated interest in children’s books.
Nice To Haves
- Copyediting/proofreading experience helpful.
Responsibilities
- Taking notes in meetings, managing mailings to authors and agents, processing expenses, maintaining calendars and meeting agendas, and handle general editorial tasks as needed.
- Trafficking and logging editorial materials on active projects, liaising with other departments (managing editorial, design, production, sales, marketing, publicity, contracts, and accounting).
- Communicating with authors, artists, and agents.
- Managing schedules and due dates for major publishing programs, and communicating between teams to make sure materials are accurate and distributed on time.
- Writing fact sheets, catalogue copy, P&L drafts, and cover copy.
- Editorial tasks also include: light proofreading, collating multiple set of galleys, making text corrections.
- Vetting agented submissions for quality and responding to proposals/submissions/inquiries.
- Additional administrative tasks include: scheduling meetings and booking conference rooms, guiding and training interns, independently shepherding the occasional board book reissue or co-pub project if needed
- Creating and managing PowerPoints for (4) four meetings a year to present books to Sales.
Benefits
- Generous paid holidays and Summer Fridays.
- Company-paid year-end office closure between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day each year
- Comprehensive health benefits, including short-term and long-term disability.
- Retirement savings (401k) and life insurance.
- Vacation, Personal, and Sick time off.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Number of Employees
1-10 employees
