Editor / Commissioning Editor, Penguin Classics (Penguin Press, 12-month FTC)
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About the Role
Acquire and publish new titles in the Penguin Classics series, and take on editorial responsibility for forthcoming titles during a colleague's parental leave. This role involves generating ideas, acquiring rights, commissioning and editing translations, and guiding manuscripts through to publication.
Responsibilities
- Acquire and publish new titles in the Penguin Classics series
- Take on editorial responsibility for several forthcoming titles
- Generate ideas
- Acquire rights
- Commission and edit translations and other new material
- Guide manuscripts through to publication
- Work closely with colleagues on each book’s positioning, copy, design, publicity and marketing strategy
- Build strong relationships with authors, translators, agents and estates
Requirements
- Intellectually curious editor with a passion for discovering books from different languages and cultures
- Wide-ranging taste
- Ability to connect works from the past with readers today
- Editorial judgement and project-management skills to develop a book from acquisition through to publication
- Strong instinct for what makes a successful Penguin Classic
- Excellent editing and copywriting skills
- Ability to work confidently with complex material
- Interest in the Penguin Classics black-spine list (books out of copyright) is a plus
Skills
- Editorial judgement
- Project management
- Editing
- Copywriting
- Relationship building
Location
- Embassy Gardens
Work Type
- 12-month fixed-term contract
- Hybrid working (at least three days a week in the office: Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays)
Experience Level
- Editor or Commissioning Editor
Salary/Compensations
- Circa £35,000-£45,000 dependent on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus bonus and benefits.
Benefits
- Bonus
About the Company
- Penguin Classics is the world’s largest and best-known library of classic literature.
- The Penguin Classics series is published by Penguin Press, which is also home to the non-fiction imprints Allen Lane, Pelican and Particular Books, and a contemporary poetry list.
Equal Opportunity
- As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role, and opt-in on their application form.