AddressEdit, upload and optimise all material for RICS’ isurv channel. Manage and quality assure the submitted content, updating the content to ensure it meets the needs of the audience and remains consistent with our global communications strategy.
Key Achievements & Responsibilities
Editing
- Evaluate submitted content to ensure it conforms to the isurv style/format as well as the commissioning brief – discuss and resolve any identified quality or technical queries with authors.
- Conduct developmental editing to the highest standards possible, making sure content meets our brand and style guidelines (general and isurv specific) and is consistent with other RICS published materials and messaging.
- Edit to optimise content for digital platform, including accessibility considerations.
- Assessing whether content would be better presented in visual formats rather than plain copy.
- Maintain content appropriately on our CMS, routinely running quality assurance checks on functionality.
- Review existing content continuously to provide insight and guidance for authors.
- Create simple visual assets using packages such as Illustrator/Indesign/Flourish.
- Commission supporting useable content e.g. checklists, template letters.
- Keep informed of sector updates and up-coming issues (e.g. legislative changes, new cases, RICS documents) using in-house technical resources and Editorial Boards as well as own research.
Liaising with authors
Build and maintain strong working relationships with authors, ensuring the timely delivery of suitable content.
- In consultation with Editorial Boards and in-house technical staff, create a brief for the author with details of what should be reflected (or revised) in their forthcoming submission. Discuss the brief with the author to ensure received update reflects most current information/advice.
- Ensure timely submission of updates and assess their relevance/quality (pursuing dialogue with author as required).
- Liaise with author to ensure timely submission of ad hoc updates as required to reflect changes in legislation/cases/topical and urgent updates.
- Proactively create and maintain positive author interactions to ensure authors are kept engaged.
- Review potential authors, develop outlines and help brief on new/recommissioned sections.
Experience Required
- Digital editor with proven track record in editing, quality assuring and uploading high volumes of complex, information-rich technical data and publications.
- Experienced in working with a large external author pool.
- Relevant experience in balancing and delivering multiple projects with multiple elements, tight deadlines and fast-moving requirements with confidence and efficiency.
- Knowledge of legal issues in publishing, including copyright and plagiarism.
- Experience of working on technical or business-to-business material in an editorial capacity.
- Ability to work autonomously, while remaining engaged with the wider team.
- Experience researching technical topics to level required for understanding (and discussing with authors) the content requirements for allocated channels.
- A high standard of written English, with strong writing skills developed in a professional or technical publishing environment.
Additional Information
Who Are We?
As a globally recognised professional body, everything we do is designed to effect positive change in the built and natural environments. Through our respected global standards, leading professional progression and our trusted data and insight, we promote and enforce the highest professional standards in the development and management of land, real estate, construction and infrastructure.
Our work with others provides a foundation for confident markets, pioneers better places to live and work and is a force for positive social impact. With over 134,000 highly qualified trainees and professionals, and offices in every significant financial market, we are ideally placed to influence policy and embed our standards within local marketplaces in order to protect consumers and businesses.
In doing so, we can innovate and progress the development of spaces and places so they are fit for future generations, in addition to the challenges faced in the present.
Benefits
- Hybrid Working (typically 60% office based)
- Private Medical Insurance
- Income protection
- Life assurance
- Aviva Group Personal Pension (matched to 9%)
RICS is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage qualified candidates from a wide array of backgrounds to apply because we know that it’s the differences in our people that make the difference to our performance.
We are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equally positive experience, and equal chances for success regardless of any personal characteristics. Please speak to us if we can support you with any adjustments to our recruitment process.
Please make sure you have the correct right to work in the country the role resides in.
Work Location: In person
