Copy and Production Editor # HUJP00010143

Cambridge, MA 02138

03+ Months Contract with extn

Max pay rate of $35/hr

Note:

Hours range from 15-25 per week, 1-2 days onsite a week Candidate will work with manager on schedule

Copy and Production Editor, Harvard Magazine

Reports to editor.

• Copyediting the entire print magazine (includes both substantive content editing and fact-checking, as needed, and editing for correct grammar, diction, and stylistic consistency); all online editorial contents; and special promotional materials such as ads publicizing the magazine’s website, fundraising, and other activities.

• Print production. Forwarding final pages to the outside proofreader for checking, and collating corrections from editors’ reviews and revisions, and proofreader revisions, with the creative director to prepare final files for printing.

• Reviewing and proofing the online editorial contents of the entire magazine for style and content before it is posted.

• Supervising and assisting the contributing editors who produce the copy and initial layouts for the class notes and obituaries departments. Verifying the degree status of individuals whose news is submitted for class notes, proofing and updating both contributing editors’ copy as needed, and acquiring, assigning, and on occasion writing parts of the subsidiary sections thereof (query boxes, nuggets), plus coordinating the layouts, with edited texts in place, of both sections. Serving in addition as the magazine’s primary contact with Harvard and Radcliffe class secretaries.