Editors at Fadac Resources

Fadac Resources - Our client is in the oil sector, they are a group of company which provides innovative and cost savings solutions to oil and gas industry. They are specialized in drilling, and measurements, well engineering, project management, and reservoir exploration and development.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Editor

Location: Lagos

Job Description
Editor-in-Chief:

• The primary duties of the Editor-in-Chief are to maintain contact with and report to board of directors.
• Represent the firm at editor's events as able; send out the call for articles.
• Communicate with the contributors and editors.
• Find and communicate with an art editor and an illustrator.
• Edit the texts and the journal and carry the final responsibility for the publication, thematic coherence and political correctness of the journal, in accordance with the editorial policy of the company.

Responsibilities

• Making article selection decisions based on the reviews and votes of the Editorial Board and other reviewers.
• Final-editing of all accepted articles and requesting final approval from authors (if needed).
• Preparing the final articles for layout and reviewing the page proofs of the layout. Cross checking the facts, spellings, grammar, writing style.
• Setting and enforcing deadlines for the editorial team; collecting opinions and announcing results.
• Acting as official representative for the company as needed.
• Responding to all company’s correspondence, forwarding correspondence as needed; maintaining the Editorial Board mailing list.
• Maintaining contact with authors about the status of their submission.
• Checks stories for legal and ethical concerns and consults publications intern on questionable items.
• Communicates regularly with publications intern, art editor and technical editor to discuss progress, needs, problems, evaluations, etc.
• Developing new initiatives, making recommendations to the board of directors concerning improvements and changes of the magazine.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 - 5 years' work experience in a similar role.
• B.Sc (Hons) or Masters in a related discipline.

Skills
Essential Skills and Attributes:

• Fostering and management of the creative process (editorial and authorial); Problem solving.
• Good project management and leadership.
• Ability to work in a team setting through primarily email, Skype and phone communication; Self motivated.
• Strategic and creative thinking.
• Proofreading, copy-editing, developmental editing, line editing, and editing for search engine optimization.
• Excellent proofreading, copy-editing, developmental editing, line editing, and editing for search engine optimization.

Application closing Date
10th May, 2017.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's to: [email protected]