Editorial Assistant, Journals - Cambridge, United Kingdom - The Royal Society of Chemistry

The Royal Society of Chemistry

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Overview:

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has two fantastic opportunities for an Editorial Assistant - Journals to join our Publishing team on a full-time permanent and a part-time (17.5 hours per week) temporary basis (12-months).

About the Royal Society of Chemistry
The Royal Society of Chemistry is a not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to advance the chemical sciences.

As a not-for-profit publisher, we reinvest surplus funds back into the global scientific community, supporting our purpose to help the chemical science community make the world a better place.

The RSC strives to continuously innovate its products and services to adapt to market and customer needs, maintain relevancy and diversify revenues from print journals.

This requires a market-led and 'outside-in' thinking approach to product and service innovation.

About the role

This is a critical support role, providing administrative support to an Executive Editor/Managing Editor and their team with a range of commissioning and promotional activities.

Your responsibilities will focus on:

Responding to general queries from potential authors, including in response to commissioning activities, by managing the shared journal mailboxes.
Arranging Editorial Board meetings, including booking venues, arranging travel and accommodation for Editorial Board members. Maintaining and updating Editorial and Advisory Board lists.
Providing administrative support for the Executive Editor/Managing Editor and their teams for external activities. This may include collating statistics, organising materials and prizes for conference exchange agreements and liaising with the travel team over travel arrangements.
Liaising with external Editors over marketing and promotional activities, and providing general assistance with marketing activities.
Arranging external Editor payments, and processing Editorial Board expenses.
Providing cover for the other Editorial Assistant(s) when absent and assisting them with administrative duties, to ensure the smooth running of the journals department.
Undertaking other reasonable duties and projects as required by the Executive Editor/Managing Editor and Publishers and their team(s) as appropriate.
Ensuring that every effort is made to progress the RSC's Publishing strategy for core and new product development, and technical innovation.

We are looking for:

Previous administration experience
Efficiency and competence in the use of software packages associated with PCs
Very good organisation and timemanagement skills, together with the ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
Good communications skills and proven ability to work effectively as part of a team
Previous experience in Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) publishing is desirable.

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