Editorial Production Assistant (Washington, DC)
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Date: 2008-05-09, 8:35AM EDT
The Editorial Production Assistant supports an art department of a major magazine publisher to ensure timely delivery of quality art and page files to prepress and print vendors. Supports the repurposing and conversion of publications visual content, to include page and image files, PDF creation, and creating PowerPoint presentations. Tracks and reviews files and pages throughout the editorial and art workflow and supports managing editor and editorial production manager to meet deadlines and quality goals.
Responsibilities and Tasks
Manages workflow for art and layouts. Supports managing editor in enforcing and meeting production deadlines.
Reviews and releases completed or corrected pages and/or Books to prepress as directed.
Supports art department in daily art reproduction needs, to include scanning, the timely review and release of art with instructions to prepress, evaluation and placement of lo-res files into layouts, quality control of layouts, fulfilling multiple PDF requests, and the coordination of color reviews between the Quality Analyst and Art Director(s).
Maintains the walls and edition proof books.
Acts as backup to editorial production manager.
Reviews, gathers, and releases all files for reprints to outside partners as directed.
Reviews, gathers, and releases all files for outside partners as directed.
Repurposes publication visual content and directs those files to staff or vendors as directed, to include requests for logos, PowerPoint presentation creation or support, page file conversions, and image conversion for websites, and jpgs.
Maintains archives for all art and layout files.
Researches, purchases and install fonts as assigned.
Monitors supplies and usage of a color printer.
Provides support, as able and directed, to complete ad-hoc projects as they emerge among edit and art staff within Publications.
Excellent oral, written, organizational, and interpersonal skills required.
Working knowledge of preflighting, prepress, and the various methods of print reproduction.
Intermediate to advanced knowledge of common publishing applications (Quark 6.x, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, QPS and/or K4).
Intermediate to advanced knowledge in creating PowerPoint presentations.
Intermediate knowledge of relational databases preferred (Filemaker Pro or Microsoft Access).
- Location: Washington, DC
- it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
- Compensation: hourly for contract-negotiable
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