PURPOSES

The purpose of this job is to assist the Church History Department in helping God’s children make and keep sacred covenants—specifically by helping prepare Church history materials for publication.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Church History Department seeks an Assistant Editor to help with the important work of publishing print volumes of The Joseph Smith Papers. The Assistant Editor will work as part of a large team of historians, archivists, and editors.

• The primary responsibility of the Assistant Editor will be checking facts, sources, and source citations for print volumes.
• In this capacity, the Assistant Editor checks facts for accuracy; analyzes sources to determine whether they have been used appropriately; checks quotations from original sources, making sure spelling, punctuation, and capitalization are correct; makes and files copies of sources; uses a number of databases and other resources to find sources; formats citations according to the Chicago Manual of Style and the project’s internal style guide; and corresponds with historians and other editors through multiple correction cycles.
• Other responsibilities of the Assistant Editor may include proofreading, copyediting, coding documents in the project’s XML database, and assisting with producing transcripts of documents.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in English or related field
• College-level coursework in editing preferred
• Professional editing experience preferred
• Copyediting and proofreading ability (skills will be tested on editing tests that are used as part of the evaluation process)
• Familiarity with Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition)
• Ability to research in nineteenth-century sources; experience working with primary sources a plus
• Ability to work collaboratively with a wide variety of people
• Ability to give scrupulous attention to detail and sustain concentration for long periods of time with the highest level of accuracy
• Ability to perform repetitive tasks
• Ability to manage time effectively, be dependable, and regularly meet deadlines
• Ability to learn new technology and processes
• Must be a critical thinker and have a natural curiosity
• Experience with text markup languages (such as XML or HTML) and software (especially Oxygen) a plus
• Knowledge of early Church history

WORTHINESS QUALIFICATION

Must be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and currently temple worthy.

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