Editorial Assistant (12 month Fixed Term Contract)

Adam Matthew Digital Limited; Waverley; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 45,000

Job description

The opportunity:

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join an award-winning digital publisher of academic resources in the arts and humanities.

Would you like to work for a creative, innovative, and successful digital publisher? We are looking for someone with a passion for history, digital humanities and supporting academic research who is interested in educational technology and a career in publishing.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our fast-paced team to support across all functions within the editorial department, from research and development of proposals to the production of our primary source products. The successful candidate will work across the full cross-section of the publishing programme, with a focus on conducting essential research and analysis of the market, facilitating the assessment and digitisation of rare, historic collections, and implementing methods to generate accurate metadata and transcripts that aid discovery by students and researchers across the world.

Your key responsibilities will be:

1. Assist with the research and development of new AM projects, supporting in all aspects of the formulation of project proposals.
2. Conduct market research, including competitor surveys and checks, conference findings, and compiling feedback from scholars and librarians.
3. Assist with outreach to archives and provide support on tasks that progress the licensing of primary source content.
4. Oversee digitisation suppliers and other technical vendors, ensuring processes are on track, deliverables meet quality standards, and that any issues are escalated appropriately.
5. Harvest, organise and refine cataloguing metadata in spreadsheets for primary sources documents; including interpreting finding aids and existing catalogues, using automated processes and extracting data from digital facsimiles.
6. Generate and enrich metadata for sources to support optimal discoverability.
7. Run processes for generating automated transcripts and additional metadata to support discovery and accessibility of digital primary sources.
8. Represent AM in a positive and professional manner to external parties, including suppliers, editorial advisors, archivists and members of the scholarly community.
9. Use project management software to report on all aspects of progress and to support project management, including recording time against tasks, managing personal workload and updating key project and archive information.

Additional duties:

1. Contribute to the continued research and development of our digital resources.
2. Attend and report on conferences, to keep department up to date with current scholarship.
3. Conduct wider surveys of competitor activity.

To be successful in this role :

Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate the following:

1. A passion for primary sources, heritage, and the potential of digital resources as an education and research tool.
2. Graduate in any subject area OR educated to A-level (or equivalent) with relevant work experience in related sectors.
3. Excellent organisational skills and ability to manage tasks independently to deadlines.
4. Strong ability to research and present detailed information on a wide range of subject areas.
5. Strong communication skills.
6. Good critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
7. Ability to adapt to new tasks and processes quickly.
8. Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
9. Proficiency in MS Excel.
10. Demonstrates maturity and professionalism in working with in-house staff and external partners.
11. Experience in a project-based or editorial environment (desirable).

This role is offered on a Hybrid basis. Our hybrid roles work upon a principle of a minimum of two days per week in the office, with up to three days working remotely/from home.

We will offer you in return

1. A highly competitive salary (reviewed annually), and the opportunity to continuously grow and develop your career. We take great pride in upskilling and promoting our employees.
2. A flexible working environment where you can plan your week to allow for work-life balance and that will allow you to work from home, with occasional attendance to the office.

An Excellent range of benefits, including:

1. A generous annual bonus scheme.
2. 25 days’ annual leave incrementally increasing to 30 days with the opportunity to purchase or sell annual leave.
3. Life Assurance cover offering payment of four times your annual basic salary.
4. A day’s volunteering with a charity of your choice at full pay and a charity fund matching scheme.
5. Private Health Insurance, a Health Cash Plan and Employee Assistance Programme.
6. Health and Wellbeing benefits to include online fitness classes and corporate massages.
7. A Mobile Phone Allowance and Working from Home Stipend.
8. A pension scheme with a 5% employer contribution.
9. A Cycle to Work and Electric Car Scheme.
10. Finally, an innovative, progressive and fast-paced, inclusive, fun team environment with many social activities and a focus on health and wellbeing where you can work as part of a brilliant team, enjoy your work and be rewarded for it!

About the Team

The editorial department’s mission is to create critically-framed resources of the highest quality to support clear learning and research needs. We foster academic and archival relationships around the world, publishing high quality collections of manuscripts, rare books, objects and learning tools to support humanities research. We harness our team’s passion for unique, historic research material and the latest technological advancements to make our digital primary source collections as user-intuitive and discoverable as possible to students and researchers.

About Adam Matthew

Adam Matthew Digital is an award-winning publisher that brings history to life through our digital collections. We pride ourselves on our creativity and our independent spirit. We love nothing better than coming together to solve the unique problems that arise when displaying historical materials online.

Our Values

Be Bold – we maintain our entrepreneurial spirit, keeping a sense of agility and curiosity in all we do.

Be Distinctive – we think differently and celebrate the individual. We bring quality, passion, and fun to our work.

Be Honest – we act with integrity to our partners and customers. We are forthright with each other to ensure we continually improve.

Be Accountable – we take responsibility for delivering results and support one another to succeed.

We have a strong commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, and actively encourage applications from a diverse range of candidates.

What next?

Like what you see? please click on 'Apply Now' and submit your CV and covering letter ahead of our closing date of April 11 2025. Interviews will be held in person in our Marlborough office or remotely if requested between April 22^nd-25^th 2025.