Editorial Assistant

The Institution of Engineering & Technology ,
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Contract Type: Contract
Salary: £19,000 per annum

Overview

Editorial Assistant £19,000 per annum Fixed Term Contract until December 2020 Stevenage, Hertfordshire We are looking for an Editorial and Production Assistant to join the IET family If you are looking to get into publishing, at any stage in your career journey, we are offering an excellent opportunity to join The IET and learn on the job We are the IET and we inspire, inform and influence the global engineering community to engineer a better world. As a diverse home across engineering and technology, we share knowledge that helps make better sense of the world in order to solve the challenges that matter. It’s why we are uniquely placed to champion engineering. Editorial and Production Assistants work on our journals and manage the processing of articles. Your role will be to ensure they are peer reviewed and published to agreed standards and timings. Full training on all these processes will be provided, we just need you to be organised, have excellent attention to detail and know how to meet a deadline. Ideally you will have a background in an office-based role in an administrative or customer support capacity. If this sounds like an opportunity you are interested in, send us your CV for consideration. If you are keen to join the IET Family, we look forward to hearing from you soon. Person Specification: Essential Criteria: Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills, with a strong customer focus Experience in an office based, admin or customer service type role Tact and diplomacy A high degree of literacy and numeracy skills plus experience of using computers for electronic mail, internet research, information retrieval, file manipulation and word processing Organisational and time management skills with excellent attention to detail The IET is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.