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1. Who we are:
We are a medium-sized, cloud-based consultancy headquartered in Las Vegas, NV with consultants located across the United States and worldwide, from Asia to South America. Our primary focus is academic consulting for doctoral-level clients, and we are currently hiring APA/Dissertation Editors.
2. Nature of position and responsibilities:
This is a fully remote, highly flexible contractor position. Many of our editors also work as adjunct professors or freelance writers/editors and appreciate the flexibility the editor position offers for family, travel, or creative endeavors. Hours for these positions are flexible, from part-time (10-20 hours per week) up to full-time (40-60 hours per week), depending on schedule and preferences.
The editor’s main responsibility is to edit and format academic documents ranging anywhere from 25 to 200 pages. Although smaller editing projects (e.g., course papers, short research articles, etc.) are routinely available, it is important that any current applicants be prepared to work on larger projects such as dissertation proposals and full dissertation manuscripts, which typically range from 90 to 180 double-spaced pages.
The vast majority of projects involve formatting documents to APA 6 or 7, including attention to features such as front matter, headings, tables, citations, and references. Formatting also includes adjusting features such as margins, page and section breaks, and page numbering. Most of our clients working on dissertations or thesis projects require automated tables of contents, which our editors are often responsible for creating.
Most projects also involve editing the text to ensure alignment with APA writing style guidelines, which includes attention to issues such as passive voice, anthropomorphism, verb tense, and scholarly tone. All editing projects require attention to writing quality more generally, including areas such as grammar, clarity, flow, sentence structure, punctuation, and typos. Although some editing work is required for internal use, most is completed directly for clients.
3. Requirements:
The successful applicant will have a meticulous nature and the ability to provide a consistently high quality of editing from start to finish in assigned documents. Additionally, the ideal applicant will have an excellent command of the English language paired with a strong background in academic editing (i.e., dissertations, thesis projects, journal articles). In particular, experience with editing manuscripts in the social sciences is preferred, as the majority of our clients are conducting their doctoral research in such fields.
As we do not provide training to editors, we require that new editors bring to this position a thorough understanding of APA writing style specifically and the conventions of scholarly writing more generally. Applicants must demonstrate familiarity with APA writing style requirements related to aspects of writing such as verb tense for reporting research findings, anthropomorphism, and passive voice. Expert level skill is required in these standard areas: grammar, spelling/typos, punctuation, and sentence structure. Applicants should also have the ability to spot and correct unwieldy or awkward phrasing, overly lengthy sentences, choppy or disjointed writing, and unclear or vague language.
Proficiency with APA formatting style is also required. For example, applicants should have the ability to spot and correct any formatting errors in headings, citations, tables, figures, block quotes, and references. Experience with other styles (e.g., Chicago, Turabian, Harvard, Bluebook, MLA, etc.) is desirable but not strictly required. Additionally, applicants should be familiar with all functions of MS Word and possess the technical skills to meet standard dissertation formatting approval criteria. For example, editors need to know how to create an automated table of contents, format front matter, and cross-check citations and references.
At a minimum, a bachelor's degree, preferably from a good American university, is required for our editors. However, most of our editors have graduate degrees or at least some graduate-level education.
4. Compensation:
Pay for editors is $1/page for internal work completed for company documents (less common), and $1.50/page for external editing completed for client documents (the vast majority of projects). A typical edit will be between 25-200 double-spaced pages and will pay $1.50/page.
5. Application instructions:
Please reply with a recently updated resume or CV along with a cover letter or email explaining your interest in the APA/Dissertation Editor position. Selected applicants will be offered the opportunity to complete a very brief (2-page) APA formatting prescreen to demonstrate foundational skills for the position.
Those who pass the prescreening task will be invited to complete the full trial project, which allows us to evaluate the applicant's editing and formatting skills in greater depth. All applicants to the same position will receive the same trial project. Please note: successful applicants will be paid for the trial project, but unsuccessful applicants will NOT be paid. MS Word is required for the trial project and for all final deliverables.
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