Freelance mandate
Help publish reference guides for readers around the world in French, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, and Mandarin.
EDImonde Inc., a publishing house specializing in high-end reference guides, is looking for a copy and editorial editor to ensure the excellence of its books, website, and all its publications.
The successful candidate will work on a freelance basis, depending on the mandates assigned, and will ensure linguistic quality, editorial consistency, and uniformity of content intended for international readers.
Main responsibilities
- Review, proofread, and improve texts in French and English.
- Correct spelling, grammar, syntax, punctuation, and typography.
- Ensure consistency in style, tone, and terminology across all publications.
- Verify the accuracy of proper names, data, figures, dates, and references.
- Standardize texts according to EDImonde’s editorial standards.
- Review books, the website, blogs, newsletters, social media, and promotional material.
- Check titles, subheadings, tables, captions, sidebars, and indexes.
- Perform the final review before printing or publication.
- Collaborate with authors, journalists, translators, graphic designers, and the editorial team.
- Suggest improvements to increase the clarity, flow, and quality of the texts.
- Check the quality of translations and their compliance with the original text.
- Use major artificial intelligence tools to improve the efficiency of the review process.
Skills required
- Excellent command of French and English, both spoken and written.
- Excellent command of spelling, grammar, syntax, and typographical rules.
- Excellent analytical and synthesis skills and great attention to detail.
- Excellent knowledge of writing and publishing standards.
- Ability to work independently and meet deadlines.
- Excellent command of Microsoft Word and editing tools.
- Use them effectively in the workplace.
- Organizational skills, rigor, and professionalism.
- Excellent teamwork skills.
Candidate profile
- We are looking for bilingual candidates (French and English). We also wish to recruit people fluent in other languages, including German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, or Mandarin.
- Degree in writing, translation, communication, journalism, literature, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience in copy editing, proofreading, or publishing.
- Experience in a publishing house, media, or book publishing is an asset.
- Constant focus on quality, accuracy, and consistency.
- Desire to contribute to the publication of reference works distributed internationally.
