Editorial Production Specialist

About the role

The Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA) seeks an experienced Editorial Production Specialist for our Tysons (McLean), Virginia office. This role is responsible for copy editing, proofreading, editorial quality control, and desktop publishing support across the Association’s print and digital communications platforms.

Responsibilities

• Substantive editing, document formatting, layout review, long-form publication coordination, and maintaining editorial and visual consistency across projects.
• Collaborate with production coordinators, designers, writers, translators, and subject matter experts to support the development, layout, revision, and delivery of high-quality communications products.
• Coordinate translation requests and work with internal stakeholders and external translation resources to support English and French communications, ensuring consistency with ALPA terminology, messaging, and editorial standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, English, Journalism, or a related field required; or, equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Three (3) years of professional experience in copy editing, editorial production, publishing, communications, or a related field required; five (5) or more years strongly preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of grammar, punctuation, The Chicago Manual of Style, editorial standards, and document quality control processes required.
• Demonstrated experience working within desktop publishing and document production environments required.
• Editing experience in a high-volume, association, advocacy, and/or union environment strongly preferred.
• Working proficiency in both English and French strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with English and French communications and translation workflows strongly preferred.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud applications, particularly Adobe InDesign and Acrobat required.
• Experience reviewing and editing long-form publications, complex layouts, and publication-ready files strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of typography, formatting consistency, layout review, and document accessibility principles preferred.
• Experience coordinating multiple concurrent projects in a deadline-driven communications, publishing, advocacy, association, and/or union environment preferred.
• Prioritizing tasks and managing time effectively to meet all deadlines.
• Ability to interact professionally with all levels of internal and external contacts.

Skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Adobe Creative Suite experience a definite plus.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries with terrific benefits, including a 401k plan with non-elective employer contribution of 12% plus 2% contribution into a Market-Based Cash Balance Plan (MBCBP) after 180 days of employment.
• Generous health care benefits on day one – Aetna PPO Plan, Aetna High Deductible Health Plan, and a Kaiser HMO Plan (where available).
• 15 days paid vacation and 13 holidays per year plus 2 volunteer days per year.
• Generous sick and bereavement leave.
• Competitive parental leave.
• Company-paid coverage for long term disability, life insurance, and accidental death & dismemberment.
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings accounts.
• Retiree health plan and a retiree health account (retiree HRA).
• Education Assistance Program that reimburses 100% of eligible expenses.
• Optional benefits include a legal plan, supplemental life insurance, college 529 plan, pet insurance, long term care insurance, and qualified transportation fringe benefits (where available).
• Partial remote work opportunities are available after six months of service.

Pay

Projected annual salary range: $69,341.00 – $105,180.00

Schedule

No employee contribution required!

Benefits

• Generous health care benefits on day one – Aetna PPO Plan, Aetna High Deductible Health Plan, and a Kaiser HMO Plan (where available).
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings accounts.
• Retiree health plan and a retiree health account (retiree HRA).
• Education Assistance Program that reimburses 100% of eligible expenses.
• Optional benefits include a legal plan, supplemental life insurance, college 529 plan, pet insurance, long term care insurance, and qualified transportation fringe benefits (where available).
• Partial remote work opportunities are available after six months of service.