Acquisitions Editor Intermediate

Description

Identifies potential authors; attends conferences and professional meetings to develop editorial contacts and acquires manuscripts for publication. Solicits, evaluates, recommends, or rejects manuscripts for publication. Recommends revisions of manuscripts. Prepares proposals including descriptions of books, manufacturing cost analyses, sales analyses, profit and loss analyses, royalty arrangements, competition, evaluation of reviewer and personal recommendation. Coordinates trafficking of manuscripts through copy editing and production stages. Incumbents at this level typically have a less broad subject specialization and are responsible for smaller book listings than a senior acquisitions editor. Education and Experience: Bachelor degree and 4 - 6 years experience in publishing field. Employees in this classification typically analyze, compare and evaluate various courses of action and have the authority to make independent decisions on matters of significance, free from immediate direction, within the scope of their responsibilities. Primary activities and decision making authority are predominantly performed independently affecting business operations to a substantial degree. Under FLSA, this is the exempt job classification for this title. Incumbents in this position must meet the full criteria for exempt status: salary level, salary basis, and duties tests.