Research: Aditor

**Job Advert Summary**:
The Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES) is a research division within the HSRC and employs a multi-disciplinary group of social scientists who conduct numerous empirical and policy-related studies. The DCES Division requires the services of a Freelance Research Editor to provide high quality editorial services for their research reports which might include but are not limited to projects pertaining to the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) and Department of Environment.

**Research: Editor - 2 Position**

**Ref: DCES - RE/SASAS**

**Ten (10) Months Deliverables based Contract**

**Purpose**:
The service provider will be appointed to undertake both language and technical edits to the final client research reports - SASAS project client reports. Each of the reports consists of approximately 200 - 300 pages. Only applicants that have an academic qualification in English and a proven track record of undertaking both language (English) and technical editing of reports will be considered for appointment. The editor will work in close collaboration with the Principal Investigators (PI’s) to proofread and edit the research reports (which includes a bibliography, tables, figures & graphs).

**Minimum Requirements**:
**Key requirements**:

- Must have experience in similar editorial work and should have excellent English writing skills.
- Reports to be edited will be provided electronically and should be delivered in the same manner to HSRC.
- The documents should be in MSWord and edited using track changes (a marked copy, with all corrections and comments showing, and a revised copy that has the corrections accepted and comments removed)
- The service provider should show the ability to deliver within the agreed-upon timeframes.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Key Responsibilities**:
The scope of work and expectations of the editor will include the following:
Copy edits and proof-read the report to ensure editorial quality
- Editorial services will include but is not limited to:

- Content editing and checking - citations, figures, tables, and graphs.
- Language editing - assess reports for linguistic quality (checking for grammar, syntax and consistent use of terminology and style)
- Technical editing - formatting ensures consistency with font, size, page number, table of content etc. and
- Proof reading - checking for typos, spelling, and formatting errors.
- Liaise with PI’s to address any editorial amendments.
- The editor should be experienced in editing technical content involving research findings
- Special attention should be paid to the text to ensure that the information within the report is clearly communicated to a non-academic audience.
- The reports should be edited in terms of text cohesion, style and layout, language and referencing.