Journal Review / Peer Review / Editorial Support

Job description

**Objective** **With strict adherence to the company's policies and procedures above all else, ensuring that** **quality and accuracy remain paramount; To provide an efficient, fast and overall good** **experience to our authors, ensuring communication to authors is timely, friendly and helpful.** **Providing editorial support to authors and editors, such as assisting authors with queries and** **providing guidance to editors with their decision making.** **Main Deliverables** - **Ensures the highest levels of publication ethics and integrity are maintained on the Journal** - **Strong author service mentality, providing timely, friendly and professional communication with authors** - **Excellent Editor support, providing help with decision-making and other queries** - **Responsibility for end-to-end submission, processing to production and peer review process** - **Prompt processing of manuscripts.** - **Collaborates proactively with the Executive Editor, Publishing Manager and other in-\\ house colleagues** - **Keeps abreast of industry news and trends and uses that information to inform Journal objectives and strategic decisions.** **Key Performance Indicators** **Meeting Journal KPIs including quality, time to acceptance, author satisfaction and** **responding to queries within agreed timeframe.** **Skills** - **Excellent verbal, good typing and written communication skills.** - **Proficient in English.** - **Strong time-management skills.** - **Ability to readily adapt to changes in process and implementation.** - **Detail oriented, with an ability to prioritize multiple tasks to meet the needs of multiple stakeholders.** **The successful applicant will ideally have:** - **PhD or masters degree with relevant experience.** - **Relevant subject matter knowledge.** - **Publishing experience or a thorough understanding of the peer review process as it relates to content in their subject area.** - **A complete understanding of best practice in research and publication ethics and integrity.** - **A strong familiarity with the academic research community and relevant organizations.**