Remote Managing Editor & Journal Team Lead

University of Minnesota School of Nursing; Denver, Northern (CO, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental & Vision insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) seeks a Managing Editor and Team Lead to guide the publication of the AORN Journal, lead editorial strategy, production, and day-to-day operations, and collaborate with the Editor-in-Chief and publisher.

This remote role, based with headquarters in Denver, CO, offers an opportunity to shape perioperative nursing content, manage a editorial team, and coordinate across departments to deliver accurate, timely information to readers and members.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in Journalism, Publishing, or related field.
• Minimum of 6 years relevant publishing experience, including as a Journal managing editor, with demonstrated strong performance in writing, editing, and proofreading, as well as project and team management.
• 1+ years of experience leading or managing a team.

Responsibilities

• Supervises the content of the Journal and the work of the Journal team, from planning through distribution; responsible for the quality of all Journal content and for ensuring the publication of accurate, relevant, timely and valuable content that meets the needs of authors, members, and other readers/subscribers.
• Reviews and edits Journal content, including feature articles, columns, special reports, etc. Serves as the handling editor for the President’s Message column.
• Selects and assigns the content for each monthly issue; creates and manages the workflow schedules for the Journal team members. Considers and tracks the annual page budget as part of content planning.
• Creates an annual Journal editorial calendar with the Editor-in-Chief and Sr Director of Publications and updates and distributes it for internal and external stakeholders on a monthly basis.
• Works closely with the Publications Editor to plan and support the development of Periop Briefing content; conceptualizes, reviews, edits, and proofs Periop Briefing articles.
• Provides monthly issue lineups, along with cover information, and selects and coordinates approval of the cover image.
• Builds and coordinates web assets for the Journal homepage on aornjournal.org and Journal pages on aorn.org; this includes managing the podcast selection, distribution, and invoice process.
• Ensures team efficiency and productivity. Identifies and helps implement process improvement initiatives related to author communications and relations, Author Guidelines, author outreach/solicitation efforts, peer review, etc.
• Tracks and manages manuscripts in the manuscript & peer reviewing platform. Manages the export and transfer of all articles to the publisher.
• Establishes positive and effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including the AORN Membership, Creative Services, Digital Marketing, and Nursing Departments, as well as the Journal publisher and ad sales team.
• Co-manages the review of the monthly issue proof stage (1st and 2nd revises) and notes all corrections needed at these final production stages.
• Manages pre- and post-conference content coverage in the Journal, including speaker interviews, conference highlights, poster and award winners, etc. Coordinates with internal stakeholders to acquire necessary assets for layouts.
• Recruits, trains, and manages performance of the Journal editorial team.
• Meets regularly with the Journal’s Editor-in-Chief, as well as the publisher editorial, production, marketing, and ad sales teams.
• Responsible for meeting the Journal expense budget and managing the payment of Journal related invoices.
• Manages the day-to-day Journal operations with the publisher and troubleshoots any problems that may emerge related to the print and/or digital editions.
• In collaboration with the Editor-in-Chief and Sr Director of Publications, identifies and develops new Journal content features.
• Works closely with the publisher’s ad sales team to notify them of content that would interest advertisers and contributes to new advertising opportunities.
• Creates and oversees statements of work and contracts for editorial freelancers. Coordinates content project requirements, schedules, and payments.
• Helps manage and lead the Publications department’s tasks and activities for the annual AORN Expo & Conference, including identifying the Journal booth objectives and activities, the creation of signage and forms, coordinating onsite events and meetings, creating supporting messaging for different content vehicles, etc.
• Creates and gives presentations as needed.
• Assists the Editor-in-Chief in planning, implementing, evaluating, and improving the editorial content of the AORN Journal.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Editorial leadership

Journal management

Team management

Editing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Publishing, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Adobe software

Manuscript management systems

Job description

Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) seeks a Managing Editor and Team Lead to guide the publication of the AORN Journal, lead editorial strategy, production, and day-to-day operations, and collaborate with the Editor-in-Chief and publisher.

This remote role, based with headquarters in Denver, CO, offers an opportunity to shape perioperative nursing content, manage a editorial team, and coordinate across departments to deliver accurate, timely information to readers and members.