Careers at Scholastic - Spanish Editor
Spanish Editor
- Location: London
- Contract type: Permanent
- Salary: Competitive
- Hours: 35 hrs per week
- Job reference: 38.21
Scholastic is the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books, working with thousands of schools every year to inspire children to read for pleasure. Scholastic provides trusted resources and classroom magazines to teachers through its Educational publishing arm. Scholastic UK is also the home to children’s authors and illustrators including Philip Pullman, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler and series including The Hunger Games, Captain Underpants and Horrible Histories.
We are looking to recruit a Spanish Editor to join our Mary Glasgow Magazine department to write and edit our Spanish language learning titles as part of our range of highly visual, teenage centric language learning magazines which are available in their various associated print and digital formats throughout the world, with their largest markets being in the US and UK.
The role requires an individual who is fluent in Spanish, to native speaker standard, to be responsible for writing and editing two of our Spanish language MGM titles whilst liaising with our freelance editors to create a third Spanish title. You will be required to produce supplementary products such as audio, visual and online content; establish customer relationships and be continually up-to-date with both the progression and issues within our key markets of language education to ensure the continuous development and improvement of MGM products. The writing and editing of the magazines will require you to oversee the production process from concept to print by managing a team of freelance translators, proof readers and evaluators, sourcing additional assistance for the team as and when required.
Educated to degree level, preferably in language teaching although not essential, experience in language teaching would be desirable. A fluent Spanish speaker with equally accurate written Spanish, you must have excellent general writing, editing, critical thinking and content management skills enabling you to write with ease for secondary school children. As a publishing professional you will also require the ability to write, record and produce the related website content as well as write and supervise the recording of our audio content. An excellent communicator, who is accurate and organised with meticulous attention to detail, you will need to be confident in your decision making and have a problem solving attitude to fulfil this essential role, critical to our highly successful Mary Glasgow Magazine range.
If you would like to apply please send your CV with a covering letter to vacancies@scholastic.co.uk quoting the reference number 38.21 when applying.
