Editorial Coordinator

Overview:
An exciting opportunity has become available to join the editorial team for BMJ Open. BMJ Open is an online, open access journal, dedicated to publishing medical research from all disciplines and therapeutic areas.

We are recruiting for an enthusiastic and efficient Editorial Coordinator to join the team to assist with ensuring the large and complex editorial team performs as efficiently as possible. The Editorial Coordinator will be responsible for providing metrics for all stages of the editorial workflow and will manage the processes in the peer review workflow and ensure alignment with other journals.

**Responsibilities**:

- Working closely with the Editor in Chief to ensure BMJ Open workflow is efficient and tasks are prioritised correctly
- Coordinating and prioritising tasks for freelancers and agencies, and recruiting and overseeing relationships
- Responding to presubmission queries and queries about editorial policies, e.g. trial registration, open peer review
- Tracking priority papers and sending to the editors for expedited triage
- Managing and overseeing any journal backlog, ensuring the tasks are distributed according to resources and agreed priorities
Social media engagement - managing Twitter output
- Reporting - running and creating editorial reports to monitor overall editorial performance and specific aspects (e.g. relating to backlogged papers, editor by editor performance comparisons)

Qualifications:

- Proven experience of working in the editorial office of a peer-reviewed journal or journal publisher
- Strong understanding of the peer review process, and the stages a manuscript goes through to be published
- Be numerate and spreadsheet-proficient, knowledgeable of formula and advanced functions in Excel or Google Sheets.

**Why should you apply?**

**BMJ is a global healthcare knowledge provider with a vision for a healthier world. We share knowledge and expertise to improve healthcare outcomes.**

You may know us as the publisher of one of the world’s most cited general medical journals, _The BMJ. _We also publish over 70 specialty journals, many of which are the most influential titles in their field.

We also offer digital professional development courses and clinical decision support tools to help medical institutions and clinicians tackle today’s most critical healthcare challenges.

Evidence underpins everything we do - it’s what makes us one of the world’s most trusted knowledge providers. And the figures speak for themselves. More than 50 million users from over 150 countries access our websites every year.

BMJ is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the British Medical Association (BMA), with nearly 500 employees worldwide. Our head office is located within the Grade II listed BMA House in Euston, London, with more offices in China, India, North America, and Wales.

**You will be able to join any of our employee-led networks focusing on: Gender, Cultural Diversity, Sexual Orientation, Mental Health and Well-being, Parents and Carers and Age.**

**We offer flexible work arrangements to all our employees. Currently our hybrid working model may require staff to go into the London office 1-2 days a week.**

Those who come to work with us are assured of a rewarding career in an increasingly global company. In return, we offer a great place to work with a wide range of benefits, including:

- Twenty-five days holiday entitlement plus bank holidays, a BMA Day the opportunity to gain more holiday entitlement through long service employment
- Additional days’ leave for moving house, volunteering or getting married
- Onsite gym, fitness classes and subsidised canteen and cafeteria
- Double matching employer pension contribution, up to 12%
- Multiple discounts through MyReward employee benefits platform.
- Season ticket loan, gym membership and cycle to work scheme
- Seven x salary life assurance cover
- Regular social events, diversity and inclusion groups, and charity fundraising initiatives to get involved in