Publishing Manager - Oxford, UK

Join our Editorial Team Academia.edu is currently seeking an Publishing Manager to support our mission, values, and commitment to open access, data integrity, and innovation in scientific publishing. This is a key role interacting with internal and external stakeholders including external editorial teams and internal product and operations teams. The successful candidate will play an integral part within the scientific research community by assisting researchers worldwide publish high quality results in a rapid timeframe.
Mission Statement
Academia.edu journals offer a global audience of researchers rapid publication and quick dissemination of their peer reviewed published work. Following the success of Academia Letters, an online platform for publishing and sharing brief communications of primary research, Academia.edu will launch a suite of fully open access peer reviewed journals for our global academic community. The journals will provide new places to publish work of interest to a wide audience and will focus around key subject areas starting with biology and medicine, continuing with engineering, environmental sciences, eventually covering all subject areas in life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences and humanities. Using the extensive Academia.edu audience we aim to provide rapid, rigorous and peer reviewed publication. Each journal community will connect a large audience of global researchers driving debate and conversation between editors, researchers and the wider Academia.edu community. Every journal will be led by a renowned Editor in Chief, working alongside an editorial board, providing robust peer review through the large and extensive Academia.edu audience, ensuring authors receive feedback on their work quickly.
Responsibilities The Publishing Manager will be primarily responsible for the successful launch and strategic development of the journal/s in his/her portfolio, monitoring journal performance through the entire end-to-end process of publication, and ensuring maximum speed and efficiency. This role will require a strong customer care focus, ensuring a perfect customer experience of the scholars interacting with Academia.edu journals, in their capacity as either authors, reviewers or editors.
Specific responsibilities will include the following:

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  Monitor the key performance indicators of the journal, identify areas for improvement and take action as appropriate.
• Facilitate and track manuscripts through an online author portal from initial submission to final editorial decision.
• Perform manuscript checks for compliance that adhere to ethical and scientific standards for the journal after submission, revision and in preparation for acceptance.
• Monitor peer review process with a goal of obtaining timely feedback from editors and reviewers.
• Build excellent communications and relationships with the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board Members, authors, reviewers and any guest editors.
• Ensure that all members of the Editorial Board are fully aware of the mission and editorial policies of the journal, and have all necessary training and information to perform their roles.
• Attend conferences to promote the journal/s and develop a network of contacts within relevant fields.
• Actively collaborate with internal editorial, product and operations teams.

Requirements
To join our team as Publishing Manager, candidates should ideally have a Master or Ph.D. degree in Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Materials Science, Agriculture, Medicine and Pharmacy, Ecology and Environmental Sciences (no journalism or arts degrees). It is highly recommended that before applying candidates should ensure they:

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  Have minimum three years experience working in an editorial role for an open access publisher.
• Have a proven track record in overseeing day-to-day activities while meeting time sensitive deadlines, and a focus on customer service
• Are Highly customer focused
• Exhibit a talent for exceptional oral and written communication skills in English
• Display an enthusiastic attitude, great analytical skill and ability to pay close attention to detail
• Are capable of working independently and demonstrate initiative
• Provide decisive and tactful directives when collaborating with multiple stakeholders
• Able to pattern with team members based in California
• Be able to adapt to change, handle multiple responsibilities simultaneously and to prioritize individually
• Have technical proficiency, with hands-on skills using software such as Google Suite, Gmail, Microsoft Word, etc.
• Have the ability of handling publication logistics for a large volume of manuscripts

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation
• Professional and personal development
• Work from home
• Flexible working hours