What are the responsibilities and job description for the Editorial Assistant Rotational Program position at Book of the Month?
Summary:
The Editorial Rotational Program mission is to accelerate the professional growth and development of Early Career Editorial professionals through exposure to a multitude of assignments, apprenticeship style learning, and accelerated responsibility. We are looking for driven, tenacious, and pragmatic team members who have the desire and potential to rise over time into a significant contributor within the Editorial team and our broader direct-to-consumer lifestyle business.
As a full time Editorial Assistant, this program will offer employees the opportunity to explore areas such as: Analytics & Reporting, Industry Relations, Operations, Licensing & Contracts, Cross-Functional Business Initiatives, and Book Selections. After approximately 2 years, team members will be placed in a more specialized role based on performance, strengths, and interests demonstrated over the previous years.
Success in this program will be achieved by approaching work with the following characteristics:
The Editorial Rotational Program mission is to accelerate the professional growth and development of Early Career Editorial professionals through exposure to a multitude of assignments, apprenticeship style learning, and accelerated responsibility. We are looking for driven, tenacious, and pragmatic team members who have the desire and potential to rise over time into a significant contributor within the Editorial team and our broader direct-to-consumer lifestyle business.
As a full time Editorial Assistant, this program will offer employees the opportunity to explore areas such as: Analytics & Reporting, Industry Relations, Operations, Licensing & Contracts, Cross-Functional Business Initiatives, and Book Selections. After approximately 2 years, team members will be placed in a more specialized role based on performance, strengths, and interests demonstrated over the previous years.
Success in this program will be achieved by approaching work with the following characteristics:
- Making High Quality Work: Learning how to organize, prioritize, and check work for efficiency, accuracy, and proper formatting
- Getting Things Done: Exhibits sense of urgency & follow through in assigned tasks; proactively communicates status updates of tasks
- Possessing Good Judgment: Demonstrates upward trajectory in thinking through steps of work thoroughly and logically.
- Being A Good Learner: Receives feedback well and incorporates it to improve
- Administrative: Perform administrative tasks such as building and maintaining various trackers and reports, and preparing/proofreading a variety of documents, including agendas, memos, contact directories, presentations, and documents for special projects
- Analytics & Reporting: Organize and analyze data to find trends; input findings into spreadsheets and charts for stakeholder review
- Industry Relations: Assist with maintaining & expanding contact databases, developing presentations for publishers, and communicating efficiently and professionally with industry partners
- Turnover Operations: Coordinate and input Editorial content into internal company systems as part of the monthly book turnover process
- Licensing & Contracts: Draft and execute licensing agreements, manage trackers, and update in a timely and accurate manner
- Cross-Functional Initiatives: Support the coordination and execution of cross-functional business initiatives, including but not limited to: audio production & acquisition, sourcing foreign titles, literary magazine, etc.
- Book Selections: Read and evaluate manuscripts, providing feedback on their potential for BOTM
- Strong work ethic; ability to learn quickly, take on new challenges, and apply feedback
- A desire to learn quickly and grow over time
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- Strong prioritization skills that allow you to keep projects on track
- Ability to do math and conduct data analysis
- Strong writing and proofreading skills, as well as excellent attention to detail
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interface comfortably with people at all levels
- Great judgment, with the ability to handle sensitive information with discretion and care
- Fast and avid reader with a deep knowledge of contemporary commercial fiction
Salary : $62,400 - $70,000
