Editorial Assistant, Journals

3 weeks ago

Cambridge, United Kingdom The Royal Society of Chemistry Full time

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 time-management 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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