Editorial Production Specialist

About the role

The Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA), the largest airline pilot union in the world and the largest non-governmental aviation safety organization in the world (representing over 80,000 pilots at 42 U.S. and Canadian airlines) seeks an experienced Editorial Production Specialist for our Tysons (McLean), Virginia office.

Responsibilities

• Copy editing, proofreading, and editorial quality control across the Association’s print and digital communications platforms.
• Support the successful development, layout, revision, and delivery of high-quality communications products.
• Collaborate with production coordinators, designers, writers, translators, and subject matter experts.
• Substantive editing, document formatting, layout review, long-form publication coordination, and maintaining editorial and visual consistency across projects.
• 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, the 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.
• Proven writing and copy editing skills for a variety of technical and nontechnical documents preferred.
• Knowledge of desktop publishing techniques and software applications preferred.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and manage time effectively to meet all deadlines.
• Ability to interact professionally with all levels of internal and external contacts.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries with terrific benefits, including a 401(k) plan with non-elective employer contribution of 12% plus 2% contribution into a Market-Based Cash Balance Plan (MBCBP) after 180 days of employment.
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
• Retiree health plan and a retiree health account (retiree HRA).
• 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).

Pay

$69,341.00 – $105,180.00

Schedule

Full-time