Editorial Assistant

7 days ago


London, United Kingdom Springer Nature Full time
Job Title: Editorial Assistant

Location: London - Hybrid Working Model

Application Deadline: Sunday 12th January 2024

About Springer Nature Group

Springer Nature opens the doors to discovery for researchers, educators, clinicians and other professionals. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals, platforms and technology solutions reach millions of people. For over 180 years our brands and imprints have been a trusted source of knowledge to these communities and today, more than ever, we see it as our responsibility to ensure that fundamental knowledge can be found, verified, understood and used by our communities - enabling them to improve outcomes, make progress, and benefit the generations that follow. Visit group.springernature.com and follow @SpringerNature / @SpringerNatureGroup

About the Role

Nature Research is seeking to appoint an Editorial Assistant In this role you will be managing the processing of manuscripts from submission to acceptance as well as supporting the standardization of workflows, improved efficiencies, data collection, and to support authors, editors, and reviewers.

This position is key to assisting the editors with manuscripts, and ensuring content is processed within suitable timeframes. The ideal candidate will be able to prioritize their workload and work to tight deadlines but will also ensure that tasks are performed with speed and accuracy.

This is an administrative position which would be ideal for someone with some office experience wishing to start a career in a fast-paced publishing environment.

The Editorial Assistant role supports the Editorial teams with processing manuscripts from submission to acceptance

This role can be in our Kings Cross London offices on a hybrid working model.

Role Responsibilities:
  • Managing the flow of manuscripts from submission to acceptance through the manuscript tracking system (MTS) - performing quality checks on manuscripts and ensuring all forms are collected and stored.
  • Providing MTS support for Authors, Reviewers and Editors - troubleshooting and assisting with system issues and escalating to the relevant teams if needed.
  • Liaising with Authors, Reviewers and Editors via email and telephone - ensuring your manner is always polite, professional and helpful
  • Maintaining correct information within the databases - updating person records within the MTS and ensuring manuscript information is correct
  • Assisting with editorial reports
  • Assisting with other ad hoc tasks associated with the editorial workflow of manuscripts
Experience, Skills & Qualifications:

Essential
  • Excellent communication skills - both written and verbal.
  • Relationship building skills
  • Ability to work well within a team
  • Ability to meet daily deadlines.
  • Organisation and time management skills
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Outlook, Excel and Google Suite
  • Database management experience

Desirable
  • Experience working in a fast-paced office environment is preferred
  • Microsoft Office and Google suite and database management experience
  • Educated to degree level or equivalent (desirable but not a requirement)
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Job Posting End Date:
12-01-2025
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