Editorial Assistant - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
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UE04 £21,630 - £23,715 per annum

Centre of African Studies, School of Social and Political Science, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Part Time; 7 hours per week

Fixed Term; 12 months from January 2023

The Opportunity:


You will administrative support for the academic journal Critical African Studies, working closely with the editorial team within established processes and procedures in the day to day administration of the journal, including coordinating workflow for journal issues and assisting with the management of other journal projects.


Your skills and attributes for success:

  • Vocational qualifications (N/SVQ 2/3, ONC or equivalent) plus previous relevant work experience OR School education to Standard Grade or equivalent plus typically previous relevant work experience.
  • Experience of copyediting, dealing with a large cross section of people, particularly scholars ,and maintaining detailed online records
  • Ability to prioritise workloads effectively and to work within and meet deadlines
  • Competent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Competent IT and general keyboard skills
  • Able to use initiative, consulting relevant parties when necessary

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success.

You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more.

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The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education.

We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Interviews will typically be held 2-3 weeks after the closing date.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our
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On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role.

International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow's greatest challenges.

Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.


The School of Social and Political Science (SPS) is one of the largest and most successful schools of social science in the UK, with global reach and local and global impact.

Our goals are to promote excellence in education, research and innovation.

The School comprises six Subject Areas plus a number of research and teaching centres and institutes, and a number of cross-Subject consortia and other units.

The academic staff complement currently numbers c.200fte. Our staff profile is multi-disciplinary across the key social sciences with a strong and growing international orientation. The School has c. 1,100 undergraduate students on its programmes of study, over 500 taught postgraduates, and over 300 doctoral researchers.


In REF 2014, the School returned 96% of its eligible staff from Professors to early career researchers; a strategy that combined excellence with inclusion.

All four Units of Assessment to which SPS contributed were rated amongst the top eight in the UK, and number one in Scotland, for their breadth and quality of research.

Overall 36% of our research activity was classified as world leading with a further 41% assessed as internationally excellent.

For two of those four Units of Assessment - Politics and International Relations, and Social Policy and Social Work - the whole of the research environment achieved the highest possible rating and was judged to be world leading.

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