Production and Sales Coordinator (Digital & Print).

HSRC (Human Sciences Research Council); Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 360,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

The HSRC Press seeks a Digital Production and Sales Coordinator to coordinate production and sales outputs for print and digital publications, ensuring high quality within budget and timeframes. The role can be based in Cape Town or Pretoria and involves maintaining printing and digital production standards and coordinating sales activities related to these outputs.

You will collaborate with editors, designers, and sales teams to optimize workflows, manage timelines, and support the

Qualifications

• Coordinate production and sales outputs for print and digital publications within budgetary and time frameworks.
• Maintain excellent production quality of products and services in print or digital format and ensure sales work related to these activities is effectively coordinated.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate production and sales outputs for print and digital publications within budgetary and timeframes.
• Maintain and improve production quality across print and digital formats while coordinating sales activities linked to those outputs.

Job description

In delivering ‘social science that makes a difference’ in South Africa and the region, the Research Units of the Human Sciences Research Council initiate and undertake policy-oriented research projects and programmes from its offices in Cape Town, Pietermaritzburg, and Pretoria. Its public-purpose mandate is set out in the Human Sciences Research Council Act of 2008.

HSRC Press, the publishing division of the Human Sciences Research Council, is a small but prolific and innovative publishing house of social science and humanities scholarship and outstanding non-fiction from and about Africa and the global south.

HSRC Press houses three book imprints, AISA, HSRC Press and Best Red, is a small but prolific and innovative publisher of social science and humanities scholarship. Focused on publishing exceptional scholarly books, the Press has a global footprint in sales, distribution and dissemination.

The HSRC Press has a vacancy for a Digital Production and Sales Coordinator, with extensive digital expertise. This position requires an individual to coordinate some of the production and sales outputs of both print and digital publications to the highest possible standards, within the budgetary and time frameworks relevant to each publication.

The incumbent will be expected to maintain the excellent production quality of the products and services, whether in print or digital format, and to ensure sales work related to these production activities is effectively coordinated. This position can be based in either the HSRC’s Cape Town or Pretoria office.

PRODUCTION & SALES COORDINATOR (Digital & Print)

Cape Town or Pretoria