Editorial Production Manager

Company : Royal Society of Chemistry
Location : Remote or Cambridge (Hybrid)
Closing Date : 13th December 2022
Website : https://careers-rsc.icims.com/jobs/3179/editorial-production-manager/job

Overview

Job Type; Part time permanent (21 hours per week)

Hybrid (Cambridge office) or Remote

The Royal Society of Chemistry is a not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to advance chemical sciences.  As a not-for-profit publisher, we reinvest surplus funds back into the global scientific community, supporting our purpose to help the chemical science community make the world a better place.

The RSC strives to continuously innovate its products and services to adapt to market and customer needs, maintain relevancy and diversify revenues from print journals. This requires a market-led and ‘outside-in’ thinking approach to product and service innovation.

Benefits

At the Royal Society of Chemistry, we promote a healthy work/life balance and flexible working options across the organisation. We offer a comprehensive benefits package to all employees including:

  • 26 days paid holiday per annum (pro-rata for part time staff).
  • 35-hour working week with flexible options
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
  • Paid volunteering days
  • Pension plan with up to 12% employer contributions (depending upon your contribution)
  • Life assurance at four times basic annual salary

The role

This is a great opportunity to join our publishing management team overseeing the operational activities of our hybrid journals on a permanent part time basis, working 21 hours per week.

As an Editorial Production Manager, leading a team of Assistant Editors and working closely with our other Editorial Production Manager, you will contribute to the strategic development of our hybrid journals, by managing the day-to-day operation of the peer review and publishing processes. You will ensure the journals in your team continue to meet their strategic objectives and deliver excellent customer service for our authors.

Your responsibilities will focus on:

  • Managing a team of Assistant Editors, Journals to deliver KPIs in line with the departmental and journal strategies, leading and motivating the team to deliver excellent customer service.
  • Managing the team’s workflow from manuscript submission to final publication and ensuring that best practice and a standardised workflow is followed.
  • Collaborating with Editorial Production Managers, Journals, Senior Editor, Chemical Science, and the Executive Editors, Supplier Relations Manager and Copy Editing Manager over the coordination of the departmental workflow.
  • Working closely with the Executive Editor, Journals to maximise the impact and quality of the journals and deliver KPIs in line with the journal and departmental strategies, and to ensure that submitted articles are reviewed to individual journal’s standards and quality based on the journal’s strategy.
  • Overseeing the operation of external Associate Editors.
  • Carrying out the publication of RSC journals, including journal issue management, themed issues, and associated tasks to ensure the rapid publication of articles accepted for publication to agreed standards.
  • Managing ethical cases, working closely with the Publishing Manager, Quality & Ethics, Publishing Ethics Specialist and the Executive Editor, Journals, following COPE guidelines.

We are looking for

  • A good honours degree in science (chemical science normally preferred) and experience of STM publishing are essential.
  • Ability to lead, manage and work well as part of a team. Previous experience of managing or supervising a team is desirable and advantageous.
  • Good organisational, attention to detail and time-management skills are required together with the ability to work under pressure, prioritise and to meet deadlines
  • A proactive approach to problem solving is required.
  • Good communication skills in interacting with internal and external contacts are essential.

The Royal Society of Chemistry offers excellent benefits. The contractual base for this role is Cambridge, however we are currently embracing hybrid working, and therefore you will have the opportunity to work from a location other than this, as agreed with your line manager. Applicants should be aware that there is an expectation that employees will attend the offices as needed for their role.

You can download the full job description here

If you have any questions, please contact us at jobs@rsc.org