Proceedings Editor

Proceedings Editor

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Be part of a community working together to make science better. A society publisher with the perfect blend of not-for-profit purpose and commercial perspective. Here, we help each other be the best we can be: a team big enough to impact and small enough to care.

We have a Proceedings Editor opportunity to join our team on a 12 month fixed term contract.

As a Proceedings Editor, you’ll play a central part in ensuring the accuracy, quality, and integrity of content published in our Conference Series journals. You will manage the flow of proceedings articles through the submissions workflow, make decisions on content, and work closely with conference organisers, authors and internal colleagues.

This is a varied and impactful role where your work directly contributes to maintaining trust in scientific publishing.

• Managing the article decision-making process for Conference Series journals;
• Assessing submissions to ensure they meet our publication criteria and ethical standards;
• Screening volumes for completeness and integrity;
• Ensuring peer review carried out by conference organisers meets IOPP policy;
• Liaising with organisers to resolve issues such as missing material or policy concerns.

• Identifying, investigating and reporting ethical issues;
• Communicating with organisers to resolve concerns;
• Collaborating with our Research Integrity team;
• Tracking and managing live ethics cases through to completion.

• Providing accurate information for smooth handover to our Production team;
• Working with our Finance team to support timely invoicing and fee collection.

• Ensuring accurate, timely data entry and reporting;
• Recommending improvements to workflows, systems and processes.

• Delivering excellent service to conference organisers, authors, societies and suppliers.

You’ll be successful in this role if you bring strong editorial judgement, excellent organisational skills and a proactive, solutions focused approach.

• Experience in publishing, working with content and authors (STM publishing preferred but not essential);
• Knowledge of publication ethics;
• Familiarity with the research process and conference outputs;
• Experience managing and reporting on data sets;
• Degree level education (science preferred but not essential).

• Exceptional attention to detail;
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills;
• Excellent written and verbal communication;
• Customer focused mindset;
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively;
• Enthusiasm for continuous improvement and process optimisation.

We know it is unusual for someone to tick every box so, if you don’t meet all the criteria, but demonstrate most of the skills and experience we are looking for, and have the enthusiasm to work with us, go ahead and apply.

We pride ourselves on being a flexible and inclusive employer, if you have a preference to work flexibly, please do apply.

IOP Publishing is a society-owned scientific publisher, providing impact, recognition and value for the scientific community. As the publishing arm of the Institute of Physics, 100% of our profit goes towards public and scientific good.

We are a world leader in the development of electronic publishing for the scientific community - working in the interests of science and scientists, we aim to maximise the impact of the research we publish.

We offer a truly international culture with offices in Europe, Asia and the US and our reach is global. Our culture is the perfect blend of dedicated and intelligent professionalism, informal, friendly collaboration and authenticity with a social conscience.

a competitive salary starting from £30,000 (Band

C), an excellent pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution), a discretionary annual bonus scheme and a range of other useful and cost-saving benefits…