Job Family: 27-0000 Arts, Design and Media

Job Family: 27-0000 Arts, Design and Media

Occupational Group: 27-3040 Media and Communications

OCCUPATION PROFILE

JOB FAMILY:ARTS, DESIGN AND MEDIA

OCCUPATIONAL GROUP:MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS

OCCUPATION:EDITORS

27-3041

BROADBAND LEVELS:Level 3– Pay Band 008

DESCRIPTION

This is work performing a variety of editorial duties, such as laying out, indexing, writing and revising content of written materials, in preparation for final publication.

Some positions in this occupation may be responsible for coordinating work and supervising employees.

EXAMPLES OF WORK

Supervises employees by assigning work, reviewing progress and assessing performance.

Plans and prepares page layouts to position and space articles and photographs or illustrations.

Reads and evaluates manuscripts or other materials submitted for publication and confers with authors regarding changes or publication.

Coordinates with production vendor to ensure the quality of the final product.

Writes and rewrites headlines, captions, columns, articles, and stories to conform to publication's style, editorial policy, and publishing requirements.

Determines placement of stories based on relative significance, available space, and knowledge of layout principles.

Confers with management and editorial staff members regarding placement of developing stories.

Reads copy or proof to detect and correct errors in spelling, punctuation, and syntax, and indicates corrections.

Selects and crops photographs and illustrative materials to conform to space and subject matter requirements.

Reads material to determine items to be included in index of book or other publication.

Arranges topical or alphabetical list of index items, according to page or chapter, indicating location of item in text.

Verifies facts, dates, and statistics, using standard reference sources.

Compiles index cross references and related items, such as glossaries, bibliographies, and footnotes.

EXAMPLES OF JOB CHARACTERISTICS

Getting Information Needed to Do the Job / Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
Judging Qualities of Things, Services, and/or People / Making judgments about or assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
Communicating With Other Workers / Providing information to supervisors, fellow workers, and subordinates. This information can be exchanged face-to-face, in writing, or via telephone/electronic transfer.
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events / Identifying information received by making estimates or categorizations, recognizing differences or similarities, or sensing changes in circumstances or events.
Making Decisions and Solving Problems / Combining, evaluating, and reasoning with information and data to make decisions and solve problems. These processes involve making decisions about the relative importance of information and choosing the best solution.
Evaluating Information Against Standards / Evaluating information against a set of standards and verifying that it is correct.
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing / Developing plans to accomplish work, and prioritizing and organizing one's own work.
Implementing Ideas, Programs, Etc. / Conducting or carrying out work procedures and activities in accord with one's own ideas or information provided through directions/instructions for purposes of installing, modifying, preparing, delivering, constructing, integrating, finishing, or completing programs, systems, structures, or products.
Processing Information / Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, verifying, or processing information or data.
Drafting & Specifying Technical Devices, Etc. / Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to inform others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.

EXAMPLES OF KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Writing / Communicating effectively with others in writing as indicated by the needs of the audience
Reading Comprehension / Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents
Product Inspection / Inspecting and evaluating the quality of products
Monitoring / Assessing how well one is doing when learning or doing something
Information Organization / Finding ways to structure or classify multiple pieces of information
Coordination / Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions
Management of Personnel Resources / Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job
Synthesis/Reorganization / Reorganizing information to get a better approach to problems or tasks
Information Gathering / Knowing how to find information and identifying essential information
Active Learning / Working with new material or information to grasp its implications
Critical Thinking / Using logic and analysis to identify the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches
English Language / Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar
Communications and Media / Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods including alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION OR REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS

EFFECTIVE:07/01/2002

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