Assistant Editor USU Extension

The USU Extension Marketing team seeks a detail-oriented and organized part-time assistant editor to support high-quality publication production. We are looking for someone who enjoys working with words to produce professionally finished products. The assistant editor reviews, refines, and formats a wide variety of content, including fact sheets, bulletins, articles, curricula, and manuals from specialists and professors, ensuring clarity, accessibility, and brand consistency.

Additionally, the assistant editor will use the Fast Track management system, helping facilitate the essential peer-review process for faculty before publishing content on the USU Libraries digital repository and online.

This is a good opportunity to work in a supportive, positive environment on the USU campus as part of a vibrant, innovative team, contributing indirectly through publishing to Extension’s mission of improving people’s lives through reliable, research-based information.

This position is telework eligible within the state of Utah.

• Editorial and proofreading:
  Edit, proofread, and format scholarly and educational materials, including fact sheets, bulletins, articles, curricula, and manuals, ensuring clear communication and structural integrity.
• Style compliance:
  Apply a command of both APA style and AP style depending on the target audience and document type.
• Fast Track system support:
  Assist with the Fast Track peer-review platform. Coordinate communication between authors and peer reviewers to ensure a smooth, timely review process before final publishing on the USU Libraries digital repository.
• Light graphic design:
  Use basic design principles to lay out documents, insert visual elements, and ensure materials are visually engaging and compliant with USU and USU Extension brand guidelines.
• Project support:
  Learn and support organizational workflows using Trello to execute multiple editorial projects simultaneously, meet deadlines, and contribute to other duties, as assigned.

• Write well (exhibit strong writing skills, editing, and proofreading skills).
• Communicate well (excellent communication skills, verbal and written).
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Word and Adobe Creative Suite (specifically Acrobat).
• Use Word and Adobe Acrobat and their editorial tools proficiently.
• Practical command of APA and AP style guides.
• Provide basic graphic design skills for document layout and formatting.
• Self-starter who can work well independently and as an invested team player.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously (apply time-management skills).
• Be customer-service-oriented (serve faculty well).
• Execute “eagle-eye” editorial skills.
• Exhibit strong organizational skills.

Along with the online application, please attach:

• Resume to be uploaded at the beginning of your application in the Candidate Profile under “Resume/CV”
• Cover letter to be typed/pasted at the end of your application
• Writing Sample(s) to be typed/pasted at the end of your application

** Document size may not exceed 10 MB.**

$20.00/hour

Employees work indoors and are protected from weather and/or contaminants, but not, necessarily, occasional temperature changes. The employee is regularly required to sit and often uses repetitive hand motions.

As Utah’s student-centered, land-grant research university, Utah State University expands opportunity and strengthens communities across the state through learning, discovery, extension, and engagement. Founded in 1888, USU now holds two Carnegie distinctions: R1 status for very high research activity and the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification. Its innovative research and scholarship is grounded in reciprocal…