Dear Elizabeth,
Please send in your CV to my colleague Shefali Menezes at freelancepositions@cactusglobal.com. She'll get back to you with further details.
Warm regards,
Minhaj Rais
Managing Editor - Global Talent Acquisition
Hi,
Do send in your CV and cover letter to freelancepositions@cactusglobal.com and we'll take it forward from there.
Editage is the flagship brand of Cactus Communications and provides academic editing services to researchers and journals. We edit a wide variety of subjects from Biotechnology to Humanities to Management. We also edit all types of documents from journal articles to dissertations to daily correspondence. The majority of our business comes from editing manuscripts for researchers who are nonnative speakers of English. Our editors are typically native speakers of English from countries like the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, and Australia.
We are currently looking for copyeditors and substantive editors to work with us on a freelance basis.
Preferred Candidate Background:
Expertise in any of the following subjects: chemistry, physics, engineering, computer science/IT, earth and environmental sciences, agricultural science, genetics, taxonomy, economics, finance, linguistics, psychology
Experience in working with researchers who are nonnative speakers of English
Familiarity with the style and conventions followed in academic writing
Job Responsibilities (copyeditors):
You will be required to edit research papers to ensure
conformance to native English standards
consistency in the use of terminology
correct sentence structure, word choice, grammar, and punctuation
Further, the final paper should be free of typographical errors and meaning changes.
Job Responsibilities (substantive editors):
In addition to performing a copyedit, substantive editors are required to
make structural changes, ensuring that the content is well-organized and that the tone is appropriate
write a cover letter for the author and provide a short report on the quality of the original document
revise the document based on the clients inputs if necessary
Note: Since this is a freelance position, job hours are flexible.
To apply, send in your updated CV along with a cover letter tofreelancepositions@cactusglobal.com.
