Administrative Assistant
Full Time
Lanham, MD 20706
$15 an hour
Posted
Job description
Rowman & Littlefield is seeking a full-time Administrative Assistant to provide editorial and administrative support to the publisher and acquiring editors of non-fiction trade titles. This position is based on-site at our Guilford, CT location.
Responsibilities
Skill Requirements
Education & Experience
About Our Company
Rowman & Littlefield—an independent publisher with an outstanding reputation—publishes innovative, high-quality college texts, provocative and timely titles for general readers, and professional and scholarly books throughout the humanities and social sciences. Headquartered in Maryland, R&L also has offices in New York City, Boulder, Colorado, Connecticut, and London.
Rowman & Littlefield
Lanham, MD
VEVRAA Federal Contractor
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. Please refer to www.rowman.com/Page/HR for Rowman & Littlefield’s Equal Employment Opportunity–Affirmative Action Policy Statement, as well as additional information relating to equal opportunity employment.
Responsibilities
- Process contracts and prepare payment requests
- Manage editorial board and distribution of meeting notes
- Write standard rejection letters
- Book department meetings and maintain weekly meeting schedules
- Coordinate and ship weekly deliveries to off-site departments
- Update records and reports in Excel and company systems
- Forward incoming mail, emails, and reader queries to appropriate author or editor
- Maintain editorial library
- Other editorial and administrative duties as assigned
Skill Requirements
- High level of organizational skills
- Extreme attention to detail
- Excellent communication and time-management skills
- Strong project management skills
- Team oriented, but also able to work independently and efficiently
- Positive with multi-tasking ability
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and easily adaptable to new computer systems.
Education & Experience
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree, English or equivalent work experience (and/or Editorial internship experience)
About Our Company
Rowman & Littlefield—an independent publisher with an outstanding reputation—publishes innovative, high-quality college texts, provocative and timely titles for general readers, and professional and scholarly books throughout the humanities and social sciences. Headquartered in Maryland, R&L also has offices in New York City, Boulder, Colorado, Connecticut, and London.
Rowman & Littlefield
Lanham, MD
VEVRAA Federal Contractor
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. Please refer to www.rowman.com/Page/HR for Rowman & Littlefield’s Equal Employment Opportunity–Affirmative Action Policy Statement, as well as additional information relating to equal opportunity employment.
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