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GSGI Editor/Advisor- Brief Job Announcement
The UK-based best-selling Good Schools Guide (www.goodschoolsguide.co.uk ) expanded its borders in 2007 with a new (web-based) publication called The Good Schools Guide International, aimed at English-speaking expatriates around the world. Readers of the original Good Schools Guide will recognize the similar style in this breezy, readable, irreverent book written by parents for parents.
We now cover over 50 cities in 35+ countries, but are continually building our international editorial network and our data base on British, American, IB and international schools worldwide. We are looking for writers/reviewers who are themselves expats (with English as their mother tongue), and who are not necessarily experts but are definitely experienced in schooling matters (usually from dealing with them with their own children), as well as knowledgeable enough about the local area to advise new families moving there.
Editors are trained by us (by email and phone) to know just what to look for and how to delve into school research and write-ups. Editors in each country are responsible for
- providing a list of the key international schools expats consider (even those they shouldn’t) and short non-committal paragraphs and contact details about each
- researching and reviewing the best schools (as determined and selected by local parents and editor) in a conversational, forthright style that is fun to read (writing samples from the GSG and GSGI are available)
- writing an article with an overview of local education provision and related issues
- writing an article about moving to and living in the host country as an expat
- serving as a paid advisor to incoming parents.
- Editors have very clear guidance throughout the process, and are paid £50 per school reviewed plus travel expenses, plus £50 for the additional articles and £5 per brief school paragraph on the school list (of good schools as well as also-rans).
Rates for the personal advisory service (arranged by the GSGI, scheduled and managed by the local editor) begin at the standard flat (retail) rate of £495 for the first three hours of consultation via email, phone, or in-person; more unusually, when advisories go into overtime, advisors are paid (the retail rate of) £150 for each additional hour. Of those rates, 70% goes to the editor, and 30% to the GSGI.
In addition, because the GSGI is positioned to work with multi-national corporations moving families around the world, and many editors are already a part of the local expat business or social network, they are often able to help us contact and secure new corporate subscribers - and receive a finders fee of 10% of any revenue made by the GSGI from those corporate subscriptions for the first five years.
Granted, working for the GSGI won't pay your child's tuition, but it can buy you the odd unauthorized pair of shoes.
Probably the best aspects of this job are that it is part time so can
be done alongside other job and family commitments, and you can take it
with you when you change postings (depending on whether there is
currently a GSGI editor in place).
For more information, go to the other articles in this folder, particularly the longer job announcement (GSGI Editors/Advisors: Job Description (Long with Much More Detail) and To Enjoy Doing This, You Need To Be....
If you feel you might be qualified to do this (ie you're a parent and expat, interested, curious and fairly knowledgable about schools, and can write like you talk) and you would like more information, please contact me at harrietplyler@gsgi.co.uk .
Harriet Plyler
Editor, The Good Schools Guide International
London
UK
+44 20 7310 8480