Proofreader Job at TalentMEDIA Services, Washington DC

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  • TalentMEDIA Services
  • Washington DC

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Director of Editorial Services at TalentMEDIA Services

TalentMEDIA Services specializes in providing editing, design, proofreading, and other services including 508 remediation for various print and digital publications, including research reports, books, newsletters, websites, slide presentations, magazines, journals, and media kits.

About the job

We are looking for a skilled proofreader with a minimum of 2 years of experience to work full-time onsite with a government agency with offices in Lanham, MD, or Washington, DC.

This job is fully onsite. Teleworking is allowed only in special circumstances such as building closures for inclement weather.

Responsibilities

Read manual/hard copy and electronic proofs to detect and mark errors to be corrected.

Maintain production information on the type, quality, quantity, and time performed on any given instructional material, form pages, or tabular material.

Perform a variety of office tasks with minimal guidance, instructions, and supervision.

Qualifications

Minimum of two (2) years of professional editorial proofreading experience with a firm/company/agency that regularly engaged in the proofreading, printing, publishing, or editorial work.

This experience must include the ability to produce standard proofreader copy markup in accordance with the U.S. Government Publishing Office Style Manual and must have consisted of editing/proofreading complex form pages and instructional material.

Proofreader must be able to read:

oan average of three (3) form pages per hour on initial reading.

oan average of six (6) form pages per hour on revised form pages.

oan average of three (3) pages of typeset copy per hour on initial reading of textual material.

oan average of four (4) pages of typeset copy per hour on revised textual material.

oan average of two (2) pages per hour of typeset copy on tabular instructional material.

oan average of four (4) pages of typeset copy per hour on revised tabular material.

Seniority level
  • Seniority level
    Entry level
Employment type
  • Employment type
    Full-time
Job function
  • Job function
    Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing
  • Industries
    Book and Periodical Publishing

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