(Sabbatical cover) Senior Editor - DK Travel

Are you a passionate and creative Senior Editor ready to inspire travellers around the world? 

The DK Travel division is seeking a well-organized and creative individual to join our team, working across our expanding list of travel guides, including the Top 10 and Like a Local series. We are looking for someone with a passion for travel and travel publishing; someone with original ideas, excellent editorial skills and an instinctive sense for what makes great content. 
 
During this 12-month sabbatical cover, you will be responsible for driving our programme of travel guides, ensuring our established series remain fresh and engaging, while continuously evolving existing content. You will oversee the project-management of new titles, from the initial concept approval through to the finished product, and ensure that existing titles are up-to-date and reflective of current travel trends. Above all, you will ensure all content is produced to the highest editorial standard. 
 
Building strong working relationships, across all teams and at all levels, is central to the role, as is great project management skills, which will allow you to balance your own workload while guiding others.
 
Key responsibilities will include: 

• Managing your own projects and overseeing the work of others
• Creating and monitoring schedules and budgets for a range of titles, ensuring all associated admin is updated and completed
• Commissioning, briefing and overseeing outsourcers
• Ensuring quality control of editorial content and sales material
• Copy-editing, proofreading, fact- and sense-checking commissioned content
• Mentoring and developing the editorial team, offering practical support and hands-on training 
• Regularly reporting progress and providing updates to the editorial director
• Researching and refining concepts for new titles and existing content
• Reviewing and implementing editorial styles, documentation and processes

 
We are looking for a motivated self-starter who is happy to jump straight into a team. If you have a genuine passion for travel and travel publishing, thrive in a collaborative environment, and are capable of managing multiple projects at any one time, we want to hear from you!

In line with DK’s hybrid working approach, this role is currently office-based for a minimum of three days a week, with the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.

If you believe you are the right person for this role, please submit your most recent cover letter and CV by Sunday 5th January 2025. 

In your cover letter, we want to get to know you better, so please include:

• Your greatest achievement or a piece of work you are most proud of.
• A short account of a project you have seen through from start to finish: what challenges did you face and how did you resolve them? What did you learn?

We have a range of benefits to reflect our commitment to our people, some of which are:

• 25 days paid holiday entitlement in year one, plus bank holidays
• Generous pension scheme
• Volunteering policy and charity matching
• Employee assistance programme
• 60% discount on company books
• Cycle to work scheme and discounted gym membership
• Flex Fridays (1pm Finish*)
• Shopping discounts 
• Up to 30 days remote working from abroad

And we plant a tree for every new employee to our business

DK is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the varied communities that read our books across the world. We encourage applications from all individuals, regardless of age, religion, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality or social background. DK is proud to announce that we have adopted The Halo Code.

DK is a member of the disability confident scheme. We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies.

DK supports flexible working and has introduced a new ‘smart-working’ policy with a hybrid approach of working weekly from home and in DK’s office.

The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade, but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews or undertaking internships. For more information, visit www.booktradeentrysupport.org

*Subject to certain criteria being met.

About our Company: 

We believe in the power of discovery. That's why we create books for everyone that explore ideas and nurture curiosity about the world we live in. From first words to the Big Bang, from the wonders of nature to city adventures, you will find expert knowledge, hours of fun and endless inspiration in the pages of our books. 

We are the world's leading illustrated publisher and a member of the Penguin Random House division of Bertelsmann, creating cutting-edge design and stunning visual books for the whole family. We are passionate about inspiring curiosity and bring people to books through their thirst for knowledge. With a global book loving community of over 800 colleagues in the UK, US, Germany, India, China, Spain and Australia, we produce books in over 100 countries and over 60 languages. Find out more on dk.com.

Company: Dorling Kindersley Limited 

Country: United Kingdom 

State/Region: London 

City: London 

Postal Code: SW1V 2SA 

Job ID: 276025