Content Assistant

Elsevier; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a 1-year fixed-term contract as an SSRN Content Assistant at a leading global information and analytics firm. In this role, you will facilitate research paper acquisitions while collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance the platform's reach and effectiveness. Located in the heart of London, you'll enjoy a supportive work environment that promotes balance and wellbeing, alongside attractive benefits to foster your professional growth.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Health screening and private medical benefits

Wellbeing programs

Life assurance

Competitive contributory pension scheme

Share option scheme

Travel season ticket loan

Maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave

Qualifications

• Proven track record in editorial, acquisitions, or project management.
• Understanding of paper workflows and collaboration with multiple departments.
• Experience in market research and strategic planning.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to initiatives to meet content acquisition targets.
• Liaising with external partners and researchers.
• Creating communication resources and managing social media content.

Skills

Editorial

Content Management

Project Management

Data Analysis

Job description

About Our Team

Our dynamic Team delivers the ssrn.com platform. We enable early, quick and free sharing of academic research papers in all disciplines. Content is free to post and free for use by researchers and universities. We enable the fast distribution of “Tomorrow’s Research, Today” to support the solving of real-world issues and problems. We collaborate as a team to create and innovate.

About The Role

This is a 1 year, fixed-term contract to cover for a maternity leave.

As the SSRN Content Assistant, you'll contribute to the acquisition of new research papers in the disciplines SSRN serves: Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Applied Sciences, Health Sciences and Humanities. You'll be involved in initiatives that result in more scholarly authors choosing to post their preprints on SSRN and contribute to the team meeting growth goals and initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to initiatives to meet content acquisition targets and schedules.
• Liaising with external partners, researchers and research communities.
• Helping SSRN understand and serve the early-stage research sharing needs of all the different research communities.
• Creating externally facing communication resources, slide decks and presentations to communicate what SSRN is.
• Generating SSRN social media including tweets, blogs and other material, meeting volume and engagement goals, contributing to creative teamwork.
• Running and/ or contributing to ad hoc cross departmental working groups.
• Reporting and data analysis on content, analysis of data points. Working with product and reporting team to build, review, refine content reporting that informs the direction and success metrics for SSRN.
• Working on initiatives, such as Grey Literature, helping to bring new content to SSRN.
• Contributing to strategic planning and ad hoc research assignments relevant to preprints, competition, etc., from Content Director.
  
  

Requirements

• Have a proven track record in editorial, acquisitions, content management or project management roles.
• Able to bring in new content in alignment with workflows of other departments to accomplish shared goals.
• Have and develop an understanding of all aspects of paper workflows. Be able to work with operations and production and sales to accomplish shared goals.
• Experience contributing to market research, strategic planning, roadmap development, reporting and data analysis.
• Able to understand and advocate for the need of authors and readers.
  
  

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. With an average length of service of 9 years, we are confident that we offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, family leave and tuition reimbursement, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and long-term goals.

Working For You

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

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
• Wellbeing programs
• Life assurance
• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel Season ticket loan
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Optional Dental Insurance
• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
• Access to extensive learning and development resources
• Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work
  
  

About The Business

SSRN is part of Elsevier, 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.