Job Description

You will be responsible for a wide range of administrative support tasks for the Cambridge Prisms series of journals, a new, open access journal series with the highest standards and greatest expectations. As part of this role, you will:

• Communicate with internal colleagues and external editors to help each journal develop and execute content development initiatives and streamline its operations.
• Track and monitor a range of commissioning activities against targets, agreeing submission deadlines with authors and chasing delayed submissions.
• Report regularly on key metrics across the series to help the team monitor and manage our progress towards key strategic aims.
• Organise and host a regular webinar series to promote some of Cambridge's most impactful and solution-oriented research.
• Provide general support wherever needed as part of the team's collective responsibility to deliver and enhance the success of the series.

You will be a key component of a high-profile series and team at Cambridge, helping us to fulfil our mission of delivering high quality research that advances understanding and drives real world change.
This role is well-suited to someone making their entry into academic journal publishing or to someone early in their publishing career who is looking to broaden their experience within an impactful role.
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including: * 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays * Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance * Discretionary annual bonus * Group personal pension scheme * Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary * Green travel schemes
As an Editorial Assistant you will be a self-starter who can work to deadlines, managing multiple priorities while maintaining a high standard of work with attention to detail. To be successful in this role, you will have: * First class written and verbal communication skills * Excellent organisational and problem-solving capabilities * A firm understanding of basic IT software and the ability to learn new software quickly An STM background and detailed knowledge of the academic publishing industry are desirable, but not essential.

Skills Required