Associate Scientific Editor – Social Sciences

Elsevier; England; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in information and analytics is seeking an Associate Scientific Editor for their Social Sciences Journals team in the UK. You will oversee the peer review process and collaborate with publishers and editors to develop high impact social science content, requiring a PhD in a relevant field and excellent communication skills. This role allows for flexible working arrangements, promoting a healthy work-life balance.

Benefits

Health care plans and benefits

Modern Family Benefits

Life assurance and accident policies

Comprehensive pension and retirement plans

Access to learning and development resources

Qualifications

• PhD degree in a Social Science; psychology preferred but not essential.
• Understanding of academic publishing is required.
• Experience with the peer review process is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and support the peer review process.
• Support the subject editors and publisher to build a network.
• Monitor and update journal webpages.

Skills

Excellent written and verbal English communications

Customer-focused and attentive

Flexible and analytical

Team working skills

Education

PhD degree in Social Science

Job description

Overview

Associate Scientific Editor – Social Sciences

Do you enjoy using science to drive change in the world?

Would you like to work on The Social Sciences Journals team?

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).

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.

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.

More about the role

• To work with the Publishing team, and collaborate with the existing Scientific Editors, to help facilitate the growth and development of Acta Psychologica and Social Sciences & Humanities Open, including the identification, acquisition, management, and development of high impact social science content, and helping to facilitate the content pipeline.
• To establish and maintain close contacts with the social sciences communities in academia and industry, and to 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 manuscript for compliance with basic journal requirements and assign to relevant reviewers or subject editors 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.
• Excellent 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 wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career, as this role is global, benefits may vary according to your location. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Health care plans and benefits
• Modern Family Benefits, including maternity, paternity, adoption and surrogacy
• Life assurance and accident policies
• Comprehensive pension and retirement plans
• Access to learning and development resources
• Your recruiter will advise you on the benefits package for your location

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.