Pre-Editor

Responsibilities

• Hands on experience and knowledge with MS Office (MS Word and Excel)

• Apply structures and styles to Word documents based on specifications

• Implements accurate application of cross references, floats, and URLs.

• Ensure consistency and accuracy of letter casing, special characters, styles and punctuation as per manuscript and project style guide

• Reviews citations of figures (s/b in sequence), sections, and footnote to ensure that they are linked correctly.

• Checks reference list to ensure that every reference entry is tagged according to its style and type.

• Inserts citations of figures, tables, and equations in the article for reference of compositors.

• Executes client and in-house validation tools to achieve quality compliance of the completed e-file before forwarding to it to the next process.

• With demonstrated quality in being keen to details and ability in analysis and comprehension

Requirements

• Academic: Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor's/College Degree, Art/Design/Creative Multimedia, Advertising/Media, Computer Science/Information Technology, Journalism, Science & Technology or equivalent.

• 3-5 years experience in said position or as a Document Analyst

• Very knowledgeable in MS Office

• Willing to learn, flexible and service oriented

• Can easily understand instructions and work under minimum supervision

• Knowledge in Adobe InDesign, Quark XPress is an advantage