Content Editor

RX Brasil; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Country-specific benefits

Job summary

Elsevier’s SSRN preprint server is expanding its medical preprints operation. You will manage medical submission queues, uphold research integrity, and ensure compliance with funder and editorial requirements.

You will contribute reporting, analytics, and projects to advance preprinting across life sciences, collaborating with editors, partners, and policy teams. You will help maintain high standards of quality, accuracy, and ethics while supporting growth in medical preprints and diagnostic

Qualifications

• Background in life sciences or a similar discipline; editorial or publishing experience is valued.
• Experience working on medical preprints or within scholarly publishing, with familiarity with reporting standards for medical papers.
• Self-starter comfortable working independently and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with Content Editors to ensure smooth medical queues and meet turnaround times.
• Prevent posting of medical preprints that may cause harm; ensure ethics, funding, and COIs are provided.
• Collaborate with journal partners (e.g., Preprints with The Lancet) on policies, reporting and projects.
• Coordinate with Policy and Partnerships Manager on funders' policies; report on Gates Foundation preprints and others.
• Coordinate with the Research Integrity Manager on submissions posing reputational risk.

Skills

Life sciences

Editorial experience

Publishing experience

Independent work

Author advocacy

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Prioritization

Problem solving

Stakeholder management

Job description

Are you passionate about advancing medical research and ensuring high standards in scholarly communication? Would you like to play a key role in supporting the growth of preprints while helping researchers share trusted, high-quality scientific knowledge with the world?

About our Team

Our STMJ (Science, Technology, and Medical Journals) team publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed research that drives progress across scientific and medical disciplines. We collaborate closely with authors, editors, reviewers, and societies to ensure the integrity and impact of the published work. Through innovation in editorial workflows and publishing technology, we help global research communities discover, evaluate, and disseminate knowledge that advances science and improves lives.

About the Role

SSRN is Elsevier's preprint server, working with over 1,200 Elsevier journals to offer submitting authors the option to preprint their research. As part of our growing medical preprints operation, you will help ensure the efficient management of medical submission queues, maintain high standards of research integrity, and support compliance with evolving funder and editorial requirements. You will also contribute reporting, analysis, and projects that promote excellence in preprinting across the medical and life sciences disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with other Content Editors to ensure the smooth running of the medical queues such that turnaround times are met
• Prevent the posting of medical preprints that may cause harm and ensure that appropriate ethics, funding and COIs are provided
• Work with journal partners such as Preprints with The Lancet to support their editorial policies as well as working on any reporting and/or projects
• Liaise with the Policy and Partnerships Manager over funders and their policies and provide reporting on Gates Foundation preprints as well as those from other funders
• Liaise with the Research Integrity Manager over submissions or submitters that pose a reputational risk for Elsevier and SSRN
• Liaise with the Production and Product teams over changes in policies and approaches for identifying bad content in the medical and life science disciplines
• Deliver reporting on growth within the medical preprints area
• Contribute to projects that promote excellence in preprinting

Requirements

• Background in life sciences or a similar discipline; editorial or publishing experience is valued
• Experience working on medical preprints or within scholarly publishing, with familiarity with reporting standards for medical papers
• Self-starter who is comfortable working independently and as part of a team
• Able to understand and advocate for the needs of authors and readers
• Strong analytical, organizational, and prioritization skills
• Ability to work methodically with excellent problem-solving and fact-checking skills
• Experience handling sensitive content and applying research integrity principles
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

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 Pattern

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.

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. We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career.

We are delighted to offer country specific benefits.

We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process.

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We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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