Posted 10 days ago
Description
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.
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.
- Proficient in Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Office.
- Bonus if bilingual in Spanish and English.
Proofreader must be able to read:
- an average of three (3) form pages per hour on initial reading.
- an average of six (6) form pages per hour on revised form pages.
- an average of three (3) pages of typeset copy per hour on initial reading of textual material.
- an average of four (4) pages of typeset copy per hour on revised textual material.
- an average of two (2) pages per hour of typeset copy on tabular instructional material.
- an average of four (4) pages of typeset copy per hour on revised tabular material.
This job is fully onsite in the Washington, DC, area. Telework permitted only under extenuating circumstances such as inclement weather, building closures, etc.
Seniority Level
Entry level
Employment Type
Full-time
Job Function
- Writing/Editing
Industries
- Government Administration
- Book and Periodical Publishing
