Editorial Assistant

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Job Description

The Editorial Assistant role supports the Books Editorial Project Management team, assisting in managing titles and books throughout the publication process. Responsibilities include managing editorial processes, peer review, preparing final typescripts, database management, administrative tasks, and liaising with authors and colleagues. The role is a 9-month contract, running from June 2025 to March 2026. The Editorial Assistant ensures authors receive high-quality service, that books are published to the highest standards, drives author satisfaction, and efficient workflows. It involves building excellent working relationships with internal teams such as production and day-to-day administration.
Must have:
  • Office experience, including MS Office and Google Suite.
  • Excellent team-working skills to deal with people internally and externally.
  • Ability to organize and prioritize numerous tasks and work on own initiative.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills (English)
Good to have:
  • Experience in academic publishing in an entry-level editorial role.
  • Project management experience.

Job Details


Job Title: Editorial Assistant, Books Editorial Projects Management, S&T (9-Months Contractual role)

Location: New Delhi

Remote/ Hybrid Working Model

About Springer Nature Group

Springer Nature opens the doors to discovery for researchers, educators, clinicians and other professionals. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals, platforms and technology solutions reach millions of people. For over 180 years our brands and imprints have been a trusted source of knowledge to these communities and today, more than ever, we see it as our responsibility to ensure that fundamental knowledge can be found, verified, understood and used by our communities – enabling them to improve outcomes, make progress, and benefit the generations that follow.
Visit group.springernature.com and follow @SpringerNature /@SpringerNatureGroup

About the Brand

 Springer is a leading global scientific, technical and medical portfolio, providing researchers in academia, scientific institutions and corporate R&D departments with quality content through innovative information, products and services. Springer has one of the strongest STM and HSS eBook collections and archives, as well as a comprehensive range of hybrid and open access journals. Visit springer.com and follow @Springer1842

About the Role

This role is part of the Books Editorial Project Management team (BEPM) that provides operational project management support to manage our titles and books portfolio through the publication process. We’re looking to recruit an energetic and highly organized graduate as an Editorial Assistant to support our Research Publishing editorial teams in Medicine & Life Sciences (MLS). This will be a 9-month contract, running from June 2025 to March 2026, based out of our New Delhi office.

The Editorial Assistant provides a vital role in supporting the Editorial team by ensuring that our authors receive a high quality of service, that our books are published to the highest standards, driving our authors satisfaction and reputation as a market and thought leader while we operate highly efficient workflows.


As well as providing core support to the Editorial teams, the role involves building excellent working relationships with internal teams such as production, and day-to-day administration. 

Responsibilities

  • Managing editorial processes including the peer review process for new proposals.
  • Preparing final typescripts for handover to production and creating workflow reports.
  • Database and systems management.
  • A wide range of administrative tasks including payment processing.
  • Liaising with authors as well as with colleagues in production and editorial.
  • Liaising with academics during the peer review process.

Experience

  • Office experience, including using MS Office and Google Suite.
  • Experience of working in academic publishing in an entry-level editorial role would be an advantage.
  • Project management experience would also be an advantage as this role requires a high level of organisational skills.

Skills

  • Have excellent team-working skills to deal with people within the company and externally at all levels.
  • Be a diplomatic and assertive individual who is able to work with demanding stake-holders.
  • Be able to organise and prioritise numerous tasks and be able to work on their own initiative
  • Be resourceful and proactive in dealing with problems and queries.
  • Be able to demonstrate good publishing business awareness and the ability to learn quickly.
  • Have excellent verbal and written communication skills (English) and be numerate and IT systems-literate, with a sharp eye for detail.

Qualifications     

College graduate or a vocational level HBO.

Capabilities

  • Technical Capability: Uses technical / job knowledge and experience to meet and exceed job requirements / customer expectations.  Efficiently manages workload and projects within set timelines and to agreed budget, achieving set objectives. 
  • Relationship Building/Teamwork: Builds effective relationships through positive communication that motivates and influences others.  Honest and trustworthy; a valued team member, actively involved in achieving team objectives.  Works cooperatively and flexibly with other members of the team.
  • Managing Complexity: Works effectively in a highly complex, diverse, changing environment.  Maintains a high level of performance under conditions of increased pressure, competition and adversity. Proactively pursues opportunities to drive change that add value to the business.
  • Problem Solving: Takes initiative to identify current and potential problems and determines the best solution. Identifies the cause of problems and key issues through investigation; identifies effective, logical and practical solutions.
  • Personal Effectiveness: Produces outstanding results both professionally and personally by being proactive and committed. Continually focuses on achieving positive results contributing to the overall success of the business.

At Springer Nature, we value the diversity of our teams and work to build an inclusive culture, where people are treated fairly and can bring their differences to work and thrive. We empower our colleagues and value their diverse perspectives as we strive to attract, nurture and develop the very best talent.
Springer Nature was awarded Diversity Team of the Year at the 2022 British Diversity Awards. Find out more about our DEI work here https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/taking-responsibility/diversity-equity-inclusion

If you have any access needs related to disability, neurodivergence or a chronic condition, please contact us so we can make all necessary accommodations.

For more information about career opportunities in Springer Nature please visit https://springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatureCareers

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    Job Posting End Date:

    10-06-2025

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