Impact-Driven Associate Scientific Editor, Social Sciences

Elsevier Inc.; City of Westminster; Vor Ort; GBP 42.000 - 64.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health care plans and benefits

Modern Family Benefits (maternity, pn

Life assurance and accident policies

Comprehensive pension and retirement

Access to learning and development

Zusammenfassung

Elsevier Inc. is seeking an Associate Scientific Editor to support the Social Sciences Journals team across London, Oxford, Amsterdam, or remote collaboration.

The role focuses on identifying high-impact content, managing the peer review process, and building efficient editorial workflows to advance scholarly publishing. You will collaborate with editors, reviewers, and authors, contributing to process improvements and journal development while maintaining high professional standards and

Qualifikationen

• PhD 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 in international, peer reviewed publishing.

Aufgaben

• 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.
• 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.

Kenntnisse

Academic publishing understanding

English communications

Team collaboration

Independent working

Ausbildung

PhD in Social Science

Jobbeschreibung

Elsevier Inc. is seeking an Associate Scientific Editor to support the Social Sciences Journals team across London, Oxford, Amsterdam, or remote collaboration.

The role focuses on identifying high-impact content, managing the peer review process, and building efficient editorial workflows to advance scholarly publishing. You will collaborate with editors, reviewers, and authors, contributing to process improvements and journal development while maintaining high professional standards and