Job Description

Location: The London office, home-based, or a hybrid of office and home working
Salary: From \xc2\xa336,760 - \xc2\xa340,844 per annum, depending on skills, experience and location
Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent, 36 hours per week
Reference: 15090

Do you have editorial experience and a background in publishing?

Would you like to use your skills to produce high-quality guidebooks and publications to enable countless people to safely enjoy our historic sites?

If so, this is an exceptional opportunity for a Guidebooks Commissioning Editor to join us on a full-time, permanent basis.

The Publishing Team is a small team within the Learning and Interpretation team, within the Curatorial Department of English Heritage. We commission and publish the iconic English Heritage Red Guides, as well as a select few other publications that add to the understanding and enjoyment of the sites within our care.

As a Guidebooks Commissioning Editor, you will commission and project manage through to publication a number of titles each year, as well as being responsible for maintaining the reprints list. You will be either home-based (with some travel requirements to the London office) or largely home-based, with the requirement to attend team days in the office typically once or twice a month, with the option to work in the London office at other times if you so choose.

To be considered as a Guidebooks Commissioning Editor, you will have a background in publishing and history, archaeology or architecture, or similar. You\'ll also have significant editorial experience of project managing highly illustrated publications.

Everyone is welcome at English Heritage, and we are always looking for people who reflect the diversity of the country today, to help us make it more relevant to the diversity of the people, communities and places we serve. From remote sites to inner city monuments, from regional teams to our Head Office, the diversity of our teams is critical to making sure our heritage is inclusive, exciting and accessible.

We continually look for new ways to promote the past in a way that is inclusive to all and that celebrates the cultural diversity of England\'s heritage. By joining English Heritage, you will be part of a charity that is already on an exciting journey to tell everyone\'s story.

You can find out more about us, what we do here, and meet some of our people and hear about why they enjoy working with us on our website.

You\'ll find it\'s a workplace like no other - taking you behind the scenes of these extraordinary sites and supporting you to share your ideas, inspire others and make a difference.

By joining us, you\'ll enjoy the rewards of a great team environment in inspiring locations, helping to make our sites a wonderful place to visit. You\'ll also be joining our charity, which through our 400+ historic monuments, buildings and sites, brings the story of England to life for over 10 million visitors each year.

Benefits include:

- 25 days\' holiday, plus Bank Holidays (pro rata) rising to 28 days after 3 years, with the option to buy additional leave
- Matched pension contributions up to a maximum of 10% which can be paid via salary exchange or salary deduction
- Flexible hours
- The opportunity to progress your career within the heritage sector
- Apprenticeship opportunities
- Subscriptions to professional bodies
- Free access to all English Heritage sites for you another adult and up to 6 children (under 18 in the family group)
- 25% discount in our shops and caf\xc3\xa9s
- Enhanced Maternity / Paternity / Shared Parental leave

The closing date for this role is the 8th of September 2023.

Interviews are likely to be held in mid-September via zoom, with second interviews in person.

So, if you would like to step into a unique role with our outstanding organisation as a Guidebooks Commissioning Editor, please apply via the button shown.

We would be delighted to hear from you if you would like to talk to us about this role before you apply. Please get in touch using the \'contact us\' pages of our website.

Other organisations may call this role Executive Editor, Commissioning Editor, Commissioning and Development Editor, Senior Commissioning Editor, Editorial Director, Content Editor, or Editorial Associate.

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