Bilingual Editorial Intern

About Macmillan Education:

Macmillan Education offers premium content in the most relevant, attractive, and flexible formats to help students, teachers, and educational institutions throughout a lifetime of learning. Macmillan Education produces content for English Language Teaching (ELT) and for school curricula worldwide. For its part, Palgrave Higher Education develops and distributes textbooks, e-books, and interactive e-learning resources, primarily for university students.

About the role:

We are looking for an intern in Philology, Communication, Design, Education, Publishing or related fields to support the Bilingualism Team: an editorial team for the development of materials for subjects taught in English in bilingual schools (Science, Natural Science, Social Science, Arts&Crafts, Music).

Main Responsibilities:

Editorial production and content review

• Support in incorporating corrections for reprints.
• Participation in checking print proofs.
• Review of audio recordings and video animations.
• Collaboration in creating briefs, style guides, and glossaries.
• Research on educational trends and curriculum updates.
• Search for reference materials and competitor analysis.

Graphic design and production

• Modification and correction of images in Photoshop.
• Support in image searching.
• Preparation of illustration minutes for classroom components.

Digital production

• Generation of PDFs from Word documents.
• Formatting and finalization in PDF of materials for digital platform: activities, evaluations, Genially.
• Support in creating digital resources.

Organization and operational support

• Organization and uploading of files to shared drives.
• Creation and updating of spreadsheets or databases.
• Support in uploading files to the digital platform.

Experience, skills and qualifications:

• Demonstrated interest in the field of bilingual education and the publishing world
• English level B2+ (oral and written).
• Ability to review, classify and organize files, audios and images.
• Attention to detail in the creation of digital resources and distribution of graphic elements on the page.
• Writing skills, good reading comprehension and linguistic sensitivity for text correction.
• Interest in learning about editing processes and tools both in print and digital format.
• Ability to work in a team.
• Clear and effective communication skills.
• Basic knowledge of editorial design, layout and art applied to educational books.
• Familiarity with editing and design tools such as: Microsoft Office and Google Workspace, Adobe Acrobat, InDesign, InCopy, Canva, Genially, Basic video editing tools.

At Springer Nature, we value the diversity of our teams and work to build an inclusive culture, where people are treated fairly and can leverage their differences to work and thrive. We empower our colleagues and value their diverse perspectives as we strive to attract, nurture and develop the best talent.

Springer Nature was awarded Diversity Team of the Year at the 2022 British Diversity Awards. Learn more about our DEI work.

If you have any access needs related to a disability, neurodivergence or a chronic condition, please contact us so we can make all necessary adjustments.

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We are a global and progressive business, founded on a heritage of trusted and respected brands – including Springer, founded in 1842, Macmillan, founded in 1843 and Nature, first published in 1869.

Nearly two centuries of progress and advancement in science and education have helped shape the business we are today. Research and learning continues to be the cornerstone of progress, and we will continue to open doors to discovery through trusted brands and innovative products and services. Springer Nature Group was created in May 2015 through the combination of Nature Publishing Group, Macmillan Education and Springer Science+Business Media.