Editing Assistant Jobs in Mumbai - Uncommon Advisors
Job Description
WHO YOU ARE :
- You are someone who thrives in a hands-on, collaborative environment but also enjoys independent work.
- You are willing to actively engage with your work and co-workers, and you embrace the importance of diversity, inclusivity, communication, and transparency.
- You are a life-long learner.
- We appreciate employees who have a high-stress tolerance, be self-regulating, possess both reliability and consistency, be able to learn and problem solve well and have strong organizational skills.
- Organize and schedule appointments with students using admin software.
- Plan agendas for meetings, organize documents and take detailed minutes.
- Prepare and modify documents including correspondence, emails, and essay drafts.
- Set up an open channel of communication with the Senior Editor for all essay-related review work.
- Provide essay guidance in terms of structure, tone, and content.
- Liaise constantly with the Senior Editor during the entire editorial process.
- Liaise with students to remind them about their submissions deadlines.
- Meet essay review deadlines given by the Senior Editor.
- Interact with parents on a routine basis to keep them in the feedback loop.
- Provide general administrative support and assist in any administrative problems.
- Graduate degree; we often hire candidates with a degree in English, philosophy, education, communication, or a related field, but we welcome applicants from all fields.
- Minimum experience in academic writing/ professional blogging/ magazine editing.
- Proficiency in MS Word and Google Drive apps; comfort with learning new technologies.
- Proficiency in providing positive, constructive feedback to students in formative writing stages.
- Ability to communicate clearly and provide quality written and verbal instructions.
- Possesses knowledge of writing pedagogy; understanding of writing as a formative process and writing instruction as different from editing or proofreading.
- Ability to manage time and deadlines in a self-paced, structured, team environment.
- Possesses good research skills and has a keen attention to detail.
Job Particulars
Role others
Who can apply Freshers
Hiring Process Face to Face Interview
Employment TypeFull Time
Job Id635422
Job Category Others
Locality Address
State Maharashtra
Country India
About Company
Uncommon Advisors is a Mumbai-based independent educational consultancy that helps students who are looking to study abroad, with their undergraduate college applications, especially the process of writing the Essays. The firm's founder - Ileshaa Khatau graduated with a degree in Political Science from the University of Chicago's rigorous and creative education. Ileshaa strongly believes that all applicants should strive to be Uncommon, and their application essays are the perfect opportunity to convey that. Their voice must be singular, distinctive and unexpected. Their story, however simple it may be, must be told in a manner that is extraordinary, irregular, even to the extent of being odd. Our students over the last three years have been admitted into some of the top American Universities such as Harvard, Brown, Berkeley to name a few as well as Universities in India and around the world.
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