Copyeditors and Proofreaders

About the Role

Book Buddy Media is inviting seasoned English-language copyeditors, proofreaders, and factcheckers to join its pool for recurring weekly editing assignments. Candidates should be able to commit at least 5 hours each week.

Project Scope

Selected editors may be invited to work on upcoming projects such as children's books, educational materials, student lesson content, and teacher guides for grades K-8 across Social Studies, Language Arts, Science, and Math.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in English, creative writing, journalism, communications, or a closely related discipline is preferred.
• Applicants should have 1 to 2 years of editing experience aligned with The Chicago Manual of Style.
• Experience working from internal style sheets is required.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Word, including comments and tracked changes, is needed.
• Comfort with Adobe Acrobat markup tools for PDFs is important.
• Ability to proofread PDF files for spelling, typographical, layout, and design issues is expected.
• Must be able to handle several assignments and meet overlapping deadlines.

About the Company

The organization is a remote-first team of publishing professionals, project managers, editors, designers, animators, sound engineers, illustrators, and writers. It supports publishing and content-development projects with a particular focus on K-12 educational publishing. The team works as an extension of client teams, helping them scale up and down as needed. The culture emphasizes humor, balance, and mutual support.

Inclusion

The team values diversity and seeks colleagues from a wide range of ethnic, religious, racial, queer, gender non-conforming, and neurodivergent backgrounds. Respect and inclusion are treated as core expectations in daily work.

Application Instructions

Applicants are asked to email a brief introduction, a resume that highlights relevant experience, a portfolio link, and the job title in the subject line.