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Editorial Administration Manager
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London, , United Kingdom
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Nature Research is a flagship portfolio of journals, products and services including Nature and the Nature-branded journals, dedicated to serving the scientific community.
Editorial Administration Manager
Nature Research
London
Nature Research is seeking to appoint an Editorial Administration Manager to directly line manage a team of Editorial Assistants for Nature Communications and the Nature Partnership Journals who will be responsible for managing the editorial administration processes, supporting the standardisation of workflows, improved efficiencies, data collection, and support Authors, Editors, and Reviewers.
You will support the Head of Editorial Administration on editorial processes in the most professional and cost-effective manner, ensuring your team is resourced and structured appropriately. You will liaise with the Head of Editorial Administration and with counterparts in other departments to ensure policies are consistent, whilst acting as the Rights Representative for their divsion.
You will be key in ensuring editors are supported on their core tasks associated with manuscripts, and ensuring content is processed within suitable timeframes, whilst prioritising your workload and working to tight deadlines.
Excellent communication skills are a key to this role – both written and verbal. Building key relationships with internal Chief Editors and Editorial teams is essential for this role, as is working alongside other publishing departments including Production and the Publishing Team. You will have a positive attitude to their work.
Responsibilities:
• Recruiting, motivating, managing and appraising Editorial Assistants, reviewing progress against objectives set with the input of the Editors for their department, meeting with each team member regularly, while ensuring they are in alignment with the Editorial Administration Centre of Excellence.
• Ensuring that the career development needs of the Editorial Assistants are met.
• Monitoring workloads, ensuring an even spread amongst the team, and arranging and providing team cover during periods of absence, whilst ensuring the flow of manuscripts from submission to acceptance through the MTS (manuscript tracking system) is not delayed
• Managing the flow of manuscripts from submission to acceptance through the manuscript tracking system (MTS) – performing quality checks on manuscripts and ensuring all legal forms are collected and stored. Providing MTS support when needed, and escalating issues when needed.
• Suggesting and implementing improvements with regards to customer services to all our customers (Authors, Reviewers, Editors and Colleagues) specifically concerning systems workflows and best practice.
• Ensuring the team is resourced and structured appropriately.
• Assisting with editorial reports and journal statistics
• Assisting with other ad hoc tasks associated within the Editorial Administration Centre of Excellence.
Experience, skills and qualifications:
• Educated to degree level (or equivalent)
• Experience in STM publishing is essential with knowlegde of both online and print publishing
• Database, Microsoft Office, internet and email experience desirable.
• Line management experience is desirable
• Good written and verbal communication skills are essential
• The ability to work both individually and as part of a larger team
• Strong interpersonal skills are essential
• Meeting daily deadlines.
To apply for the position, please submit a CV and a covering letter, explaining why you are interested in the role, including your salary expectations.
Closing date: 23rd January 2017