Associate Scientific Editor

Associate Scientific Editor – Social Sciences

Are you super organized, skilled at planning?

Do you have great reporting skills?

About us

Elsevier stands unique as the world's leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information, operating at the forefront of electronic publishing. Part of the FTSE-100 Company RELX, we enable specialized communities from universities to healthcare professionals, to access more than 20,000 products and services globally. In an ongoing commitment to being an employer of choice, we are committed to employing and developing talented and creative people who thrive on working in a challenging and fast-paced environment.

The Social Sciences Journals group publishes more than 165 high-quality journals, including key publications edited by the best minds in the subject areas.

About the role

We are looking for a bright and enthusiastic individual to work alongside the Publishers and existing Associate Scientific Editors to help further grow, shape and develop Social Sciences & Humanities Open and Acta Psychologica, significant, broad scope, sound-science open access titles within the Social Sciences Journals team. This role will balance academic research knowledge with efficiency, analytic skills, network development, and creativity.

About the Team

The Social Sciences Journals team is comprised of 9 Publishers: 2 in Oxford (UK), 4 in London (UK), 2 in Amsterdam (NL), and 1 in Shanghai (China); And 4 Scientific Editors based in Amsterdam (NL), London (UK), and Delhi (India).

We are looking to recruit a full-time Associate Scientific Editor to work at any of the main offices in the UK or the Netherlands (London, Oxford, or Amsterdam). Please note you must already have a permit to work in one of these locations to be considered for this role. Any applicant would need to have a good educational background and keen interest in academic publishing; excellent communication skills; and would have to be prepared to work somewhat independently from the rest of the immediate team while also contributing to team initiatives.

You will work with the Publishing team, and collaborate with the existing Scientific Editors, to help facilitate the growth and development of Social Sciences & Humanities Open and Acta Psychologica, including the identification, acquisition, management, and development of high-impact social science content, and helping to facilitate the content pipeline.

You will establish and maintain close contacts with the social sciences communities in academia and industry, and work directly with authors, reviewers, and editors to help manage an efficient, rigorous, and author-friendly peer review process which maintains high professional and academic standards.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and support the peer review process: screen new manuscripts for compliance with basic journal requirements and assign to relevant subject editor where in place;
• Ensuring efficient article transfer opportunities within the Elsevier Social Sciences portfolio collaborating with the internal transfer team as well as external parties;
• Support the subject editors and publisher to build a network of editors, scientific reviewers, and authors across the social sciences;
• Work with the publisher to build effective infrastructure for the journal, including improvement of internal processes and editorial team development;
• Monitor and update the journal webpages to ensure ongoing relevance and factual accuracy;
• Provide ongoing reporting to management team, and reporting/analysis as required to support ongoing journal development;
• Responsible for managing the solicitation of journal content in new and emerging social science fields;
• Editorial expansion/innovation in related fields.

Requirements

• PhD degree in a Social Science; psychology preferred but not essential;
• Understanding of academic publishing;
• Customer-focused, attentive;
• Good interactive, team working skills and a drive to collaborate across multiple internal departments, ability to connect with a broad range of people as well as to work independently;
• Flexible, analytical, and proactive; ability to think critically about a wide range of research issues;
• Excellent written and verbal English communications;
• Experience of authoring and the peer review process would be helpful, but not essential;
• An interest in helping achieve success for early career researchers and those new to international, peer-reviewed publishing.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working for you

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Dutch Share Purchase Plan
• Annual Profit Share Bonus
• Comprehensive Pension Plan
• Home, office or commuting allowance
• Generous vacation entitlement and option for sabbatical leave
• Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care leave
• Flexible working hours
• Personal Choice budget
• Variety of online training courses and career roadshows
• Wellbeing programs and gym facility in the office
• Internal communities and networks
• Various employee discounts
• Recruitment introduction reward
• Work from anywhere
• Employee Assistance Program (global)
• Annual Event

About the Business

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education, and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world's grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.

About Us

Elsevier is a global information analytics business that helps institutions and professionals advance healthcare, open science, and improve performance for the benefit of humanity. We help researchers make new discoveries, collaborate with their colleagues, and give them the knowledge they need to find funding. We help governments and universities evaluate and improve their research strategies. We help doctors save lives, providing insight for physicians to find the right clinical answers, and we support nurses and other healthcare professionals throughout their careers. Elsevier provides digital solutions and tools in the areas of strategic research management, R&D performance, clinical decision support, and professional education; including ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciVal, ClinicalKey, and Sherpath. Elsevier publishes over 2,500 digitized journals, including The Lancet and Cell, 38,000 e-book titles, and many iconic reference works, including Gray’s Anatomy. Elsevier is part of RELX Group. With a wide range of technology jobs, commercial and business jobs, and graduate jobs, there is a part for everyone to play. We need talented people to help us inspire ground-breaking research.

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