Copy Editor needed with Agilisys
About: Agilisys is the UK's most innovative IT services and outsourcing provider, transforming the way our clients deliver services to their customers through the use of strategic, affordable, shared service platforms. Visit www.agilisys.co.uk
Opening: Copy Editor
Experience: 2 to 5 years
Job Location: Bandra (W), Mumbai.
Job Skills required:
- Strict British English business writing and editing skills
- Fundamentally inclined towards proof-reading and copy editing roles
- Ability to liaise with external parties formally to get necessary inputs to perform the job well
- Good speed in reading, comprehending, looking for newer and different sources of information, selecting relevant material, assimilating and structuring information
- Analytical mind to draw meaningful inferences from researched matter.
Responsibilities:
Editorial
1. Reviewing reports and other research outputs created by the team in terms of business English writing
2. Checking that the author has provided all the required materials and resolving queries directly with the author
3. Write executive summary/ editorial pieces, which are crisp, subject-related opinion pieces
4. Train the team in the nuances of business writing
5. Assessing the suitability of the text for its intended readership, e.g. based on regional practices (the UK and India mainly), industry etc.
6. Maintaining awareness of new words or phrases coming into popular usage and ensuring they are inoffensive to readership
7. Discussing and resolving any potentially libellous sections with the team head and the author
Designing
8. Creating artwork briefs for the report design and layout etc.
9. Producing a checklist to ensure consistency of content presentation, eg dates, hyphenation, capitalisation and other aspects
10. Indexing and storing the research outputs
Marketing
11. Managing IndiQuest website
12. Managing marketing and business activities such as writing contributing to proposals, preparing marketing collaterals etc.
Contact: Richa Duragkar, richa.duragkar@agilisys.co.uk , 022-265440538 mentioning, current and expected salart, experience, platform and tools used, notice period, suitable time to call.
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