Editorial Assistant – APAC

As an Editorial Assistant you will join our high performing peer review team and play a vital role in ensuring excellent customer service to our authors and reviewers. Responsible for the administration of the publishing process, you will work mainly electronically, following set working procedures to ensure our company database is updated accurately and promptly in order to maintain an excellent level of customer service and data quality.

Excellent author and reviewer service contributes to the attraction and retention of top authors, and is critical to the future success of IOP Publishing’s journal business. As the primary point of contact for authors and reviewers, and through the administration of one or more journal titles, Editorial Assistants drive articles through the publication process from receipt to publication and beyond. Editorial Assistants also work as part of one or more journal teams, supporting in-house peer review and production staff, as well as maintaining good quality data in our systems.

Happy to work independently as well as within a team, you will be able to demonstrate excellent organizational skills and also be adaptable and quick to learn. With a proactive approach to work, you will have excellent attention to detail in order to work to very high standards of accuracy when entering data and in written correspondence.

Please note that this is a full-time, hybrid position. As there will not be a requirement for the person in this role to be in the office on a weekly basis, we are open to considering applicants from a wider geographical area who are happy to travel to the Beijing office for monthly/quarterly team meetings, subject to business needs.

About you:

Applicants should demonstrate:

• A good general education, ideally with a degree or equivalent.
• Proficiency in English and Chinese.
• Computer literate in Office 365 products (Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook); with ability to learn new computer skills.
• Excellent communications skills (both written and verbal).
• Excellent organizational, time and task management skills; methodical in approach.
• Good attention to detail.
• Good team working skills.
• Previous experience in using a database or in customer service would be an advantage, however full training will be provided.
• No prior knowledge of physics or publishing is necessary for this particular role.

To apply, please submit your CV and cover note through our careers site.

We aim to review applications soon after they are received, and will arrange interviews when there’s someone we’re keen to meet, so please don’t hold off applying until the closing date is approaching - we don’t want you, or us, to miss out!

About us:

IOP Publishing is an international scientific publisher, through which leading-edge research is distributed worldwide. Our rapidly expanding journals programme is published alongside other sources of scientific information in the form of ebooks, magazines and conference proceedings. Other publications include easily accessible community and regional websites. We are a world leader in the development of electronic publishing for the scientific community and have offices in Europe, Asia and the US. Working in the interests of science and scientists, we aim to maximise the impact of the research we publish.

IOP Publishing is central to the Institute of Physics, a not-for-profit society. Any financial surplus earned by IOP Publishing goes to supporting science through the activities of the Institute. With a continuing focus on growth, we recognise that every single person has a real part to play if we’re to achieve our aim of becoming the world’s leading publisher in our field.

IOP Publishing is an equal opportunity employer. Our goal is to ensure that diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) are built into our identity in a way that is natural and sustainable, visible through the work we produce, our company branding, our professional networks and the communities we serve and support, which includes our employees, talent communities and candidates. We particularly welcome applicants from under-represented backgrounds.

Vision Our vision is that diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) are built into our identity in a way that is both natural and sustainable and that is visible through the work we produce, our Ways of Being, our company branding, our professional networks and the colleagues and communities we serve and support.