Editorial Board Resourcing Associate

Job Title: Editorial Board Resourcing Associate

Location: Pune

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About the Role

We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Editorial Board Resourcing Associate to join our team. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in building and maintaining relationships with authors, reviewers, and the broader academic community.

Roles Responsibilities

1. Data management and analysis. Responsibilities include:

Supporting journal EiCs and journal publishing colleagues in EBM recruitment by assessing journal recruitment needs and developing specific recommendations for how recruitment may best contribute to journal development.

Using pre-defined criteria, develop datasets based on the scope of the journal and related field to and identify candidates for editorial board recruitment

2. Customer engagement. Responsibilities include:

Engaging external Editors-in-Chief and internal publisher teams with the recruitment process, ensuring that goals, and processes are clearly communicated to all parties.

Working with EiCs to ensure that suitable candidates are invited to join journals in a timely manner and that EiCs are provided with feedback on progress.

3. Process improvement. Responsibilities include:

Supporting analytics and data teams to provide feedback and suggestions to support scalable tools and systems for external editor identification

Working with the external editor support team to support a normalized on boarding experience for new EBMs by providing feedback on processes.

Contributing to a culture of continuous improvement in the Editor recruitment team. Working to propose ways of improving (or building upon) existing processes and identifying new ways of supporting editorial board recruitment at scale.

Educational Qualification: Master’s in any discipline of Science.

Years of Experience: 1+ year

Place of Work: 1201/1301, Building No. 5 (R3), Gera Commerzone, Kharadi, Pune (Working in Hybrid Model)

Desired:

Strong organizational skills, with attention to detail

Able to see tasks through to completion, working to (often competing) deadlines

Excellent interpersonal and communication skill

Actively involved in achieving team objectives. Works cooperatively and flexibly with other members of the team

Problem solving

A high level of computer literacy – understands common software (e.g. Microsoft Office suite) and gains new software skills quickly

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