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Assistant Editor - Academic Publishing

The publishing arm of a highly successful, membership organisation is looking to recruit a motivated Assistant Editor to join their journals team.

 

Based in Hertfordshire (30mins journey from Central London). The Assistant Editor will assist the Executive Editor and the Journal team with the development of the journal portfolio.

 

Some key responsibilities of the role will involve:

  • Provide support to the Executive Editor in relation the management of Editorial Boards, and working with Editorial Assistants
  • Booking teleconferences and meetings
  • Running reports and collating journal information
  • Updating web pages for all journals and maintaining the records for Special Issues
  • Work with the wider journals team to ensure the editorial workflow is operating to maximum efficiency

 

This is a great role to develop your publishing experience and may suit an Editorial Assistant who is looking for the next step in their career.

 

The successful person will be educated to degree level or equivalent, ideally in a scientific subject and ideally have some experience of online peer review systems.

 

You will have well developed interpersonal and communications skills and a strong customer focus. You will have a high degree of literacy and numeracy, plus experience of using different IT packages and using computers for email, research, file manipulation and information retrieval. You will have excellent time management skills and be able to demonstrate the ability to work to tight deadlines and prioritize workload.

 

For further details on this role please forward your CV outlining your salary expectations and availability. 

Assistant Editor - Academic Publishing

Redwood, Hertfordshire
Permanent
STM
Editorial
Reference: 
AE110417
Salary description: 
Competitive plus excellent benefits package

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