| Publication or Company |
Rodale, Books
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| Industry |
Book Publishing |
| Job Duration |
Full Time |
| Job Location |
New York, NY |
| Job Requirements |
Rodale Books is currently seeking an assistant for the New York City office. This person will provide editorial and administrative support for both the editorial director of trade books and the director of subsidiary rights. The ideal candidate is organized and detail-oriented, has a professional manner, and exceptional oral and written communication skills. We are seeking someone who is creative and has a can-do attitude! Previous administrative work and publishing experience is strongly preferred.
Responsibilities include:
•General office support to the editorial director and the director of subsidiary rights
•Manage weekly editorial meetings (meeting request, setup—video, agenda, minutes)
•Communicating with authors, agents, writers, photographers, foreign publisher, translation sub-agents, rights contacts, and other clients
•Analyzing book proposals and writing readers reports
•Fielding unsolicited submissions
- Drafting correspondence
•Creating fact sheets, catalog copy, and P&L drafts
•Ordering books/office supplies
•Mailing packages
•Trafficking of internal materials
•Submit check requests for author payment
•Process T&E expenses
•General editorial and sub-rights research
Qualifications:
•Bachelor’s degree
•At least one year of experience working as an editorial assistant/intern
•Excellent verbal/written communication skills
•Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
•Ability to work as a member of a team
•Ability to juggle and prioritize multiple tasks and work independently
•A creative thinker who is always on the lookout for new, more efficient ways of doing things
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| About Our Company |
Rodale is a global lifestyle company with a mission to inspire and enable people to improve their lives and the world around them. Through a broad portfolio of award-winning media properties, Rodale engages with more than 70 million people around the world through multiple distribution channels, including magazines, books, online, mobile, e-commerce, direct-to-consumer, and video. Rodale publishes some of the best-known health and wellness lifestyle magazine brands, including Men's Health, Prevention, Women's Health, Runner's World, Bicycling, Running Times, and Organic Gardening, and is one of the largest independent book publishers in the United States with a collection of bestselling titles that include Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite, The Kind Diet, Eat This, Not That! and The Honest Life. Widely regarded as a digital leader in the healthy living space with properties such as Fitbie.com and RODALE'S, a new eco-luxury online store, the company continues to find new ways to connect with audiences across developing technologies. The company is also an established leader in direct-response marketing with more than 27 million active customers in its database. To learn more about Rodale, visit www.rodaleinc.com. |
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