Our Values

At Lex Academic, we are committed to helping the world’s most promising academics publish in the best possible research outlets. Our shared understanding of the academic publishing space gives our team a uniquely compassionate insight into the process of refining work for peer review and making a strong impression with leading journals, publishing houses, and funding bodies.

We’re an author services firm with a humane mission. Spearheaded by Oxbridge-educated research academics, we boast 20 years’ editorial experience and over 100 research publications between us. We don’t believe that language should be a barrier to publication. That is why a proportion of our profits go towards our two Lex Academic Scholarships, funds that support students with dyslexia.

Beloved by those who have been let down by faceless proofreading firms and paltry software packages, our clients return to us again and again because we offer a service that they can trust. We have looked after the manuscripts of thousands of academics and PhD students, enabling native and non-native English speakers alike to place their work with leading journals and prestigious publishing houses. Our boutique author service ensures your work is submission-ready with a tailored menu of proofreading and editing services that promote publication success. All documents are edited by subject experts and finished by one of our founders.

The Team

Our in-house team are utterly integral to this and constitute the most important ingredient in our ability to consistently deliver exceptional academic proofreading, copy-editing, indexing, and translation at the highest level. We relish going above and beyond for our clients and we love to celebrate their success. We are a hard-working, collaborative team who relish the responsibility bestowed upon us by our esteemed clientele and we share an enormous sense of pride to see our clients succeeding in the most challenging aspects of academic life: winning funding and publishing their research.

In pursuit of our professional goals, we are always looking for the next like-minded person to join our team. Alongside our growing pool of academic freelance proofreaders, indexers, translators, and developmental editors, we are consistently seeking to expand and nurture our in-house talent. We are currently staffed by researchers who have retrained as professional proofreaders and editors. We believe that technical editorial experience combined with world-leading subject-matter expertise is the magic behind truly extraordinary proofreading, indexing, and translation.

Do you share our passion for immaculate prose?

Are you highly educated, intuitive, and conscientious? We are always on the hunt for extraordinary proofreaders, indexers, and academic translators who share our scrupulous editorial standards. If you are looking for academic proofreading jobs with competitive rates of pay, then please get in touch. Email applications@lexacademic.com with your CV to see if we’re a good fit.

Current Permanent Vacancies

Editorial Project Manager (£25–30k STE, plus pension)

Start date: 5 March 2024 (earlier preferred)

Lex Academic and Lex Academic.science purvey white-glove academic author services and seek to appoint a full-time Editorial Project Manager for academic articles, indexes, theses, and manuscripts across STEM subjects, humanities, and social sciences.

This role reports directly to the CEO and COO of the company and works closely with our Quality Controller. The role is fully remote.

About the job

Role Description

This is a full-time remote role for an Editorial Project Manager. The Editorial Project Manager will be responsible for managing our freelance editors, indexers, and translators. They will oversee and direct editorial projects from conception to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time and to the highest standard. The Editorial Project Manager will liaise with quality assurance, proofreaders, and editors, as well as manage the freelance editorial team. They will also be responsible for implementing and improving editorial processes.

Skills and qualities required

• Editorial Project Management skills
• The ability to check and correct freelancer work (high-level proofreading, copy-editing, and substantive editing skills are essential)
• Strong written communication skills
• Outstanding attention to detail
• Impeccable time management skills
• Ability to manage multiple editorial projects simultaneously
• Higher degree in English or a related field
• Five or more years’ experience in the fields of academic publishing, editorial management, or project management is highly desirable

Applicants should at least have a very good BA/BSc degree in either a humanities, social sciences, or STEM subject, an impeccable command of the English language, a proactive attitude, multitasker mindset, and the ability to check and proofread academic work across STEM subjects, the humanities, and social sciences. At least five years’ professional project management experience will be required for shortlisting.

This fully remote role requires flexibility, exceptional time-management, and a passion for delivering high-quality editorial services. Our motto is that we never let an academic client down.

Salary: £25,000–30,000 (plus pension). There will be opportunities for promotion as the company grows. Weekday and some weekend cover required. Interviews will be held remotely.

To apply, please email HR with your CV and a detailed cover letter.

 

Current Freelancer Vacancies

Lex Academic are always looking for specialist Philosophy, Classics, Anthropology, and Art History indexers, translators, proofreaders, copy editors, and developmental editors:

Philosophy

• Linguistics
• Conceptual engineering
• Kant
• Wittgenstein
• Philosophy of psychology
• Philosophy of art
• Philosophy and film

Classics

• Roman history
• Greek Epic poetry
• Plato and Aristotle
• Philology
• Presocratic philosophy
• Ancient Roman philosophy (esp. Lucretius, Cicero, & Seneca)
• Latin poetry (esp. Ovid, Virgil, Horace, & Catullus)

Anthropology

• Narrative ethnography
• Cultural anthropology
• Linguistic anthropology
• Archaeology
• Biological anthropology

Art & History of Art

• Architectural art history
• Climate and design studies
• Contemporary art criticism
• Contemporary design studies
• Greek and Roman art history

To apply to join our expanding team of freelance editors, please email applications@lexacademic.com with an introductory email or brief CV. Lex Academic are an equal opportunities employer.