Skilled Book Designer / Composition and Layout Expert (Heb/Eng)

Trebuchet Outsourcing Services is looking for skilled and experienced individuals to design layouts for, and typeset, scholarly mixed-language books (primarily English, liberally sprinkled with Hebrew). These books generally have extensive footnotes, as well as marginal notes, tables, sidebars and other elements typical of this genre. InDesign is preferred as the delivery platform although other alternatives will be considered.

Qualifications:

• Documented prior book design and composition experience in this genre

• • Documented prior experience in InDesign (preferred; or other platform of choice)
• • Strong familiarity with Torah, Talmud and hashkafa concepts and familiarity with the vernacular of those subjects
• • A passion for accuracy and delivering the highest possible quality product

• A strong sense of ethics and integrity

Please address your suitability for this role based on the requirements above in your response, and include a link to your portfolio, which should include your work relevant to these requirements.

Please respond by emailing your English cover letter, resume and portfolio link to [email protected] with “Composition” as the subject. Feel free to respond to this posting even if you have applied for other Trebuchet positions.

Please forward this opportunity to others who may be interested and qualified.

We regret that we are unable to respond to all applicants but be assured that all submissions are given serious consideration.