Job Description

Job Title: Sub Editor
Permanent, Full-Time
Location: London, UK
Application deadline: 20th October 2025
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.
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About the Brand
Nature Portfolio is a flagship portfolio of journals, products and services including Nature and the Nature-branded journals, dedicated to serving the scientific community.
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About the Role
Ensuring the highest quality copy editing and proofreading of journal editorial content within production deadlines to meet Nature Portfolio quality expectations.
Role Responsibilities:

• Copy-edit assigned non-primary content within agreed turnaround times, ensuring that the text is readable, grammatically correct, accurate, internally consistent and conforms to house style
• Ensure that figures are accurately reproduced and consistent with the text
• Confer with production staff to set priorities and edit figures
• Check authors' proof corrections and accurately incorporate those changes that are reasonable and correct
• Ensure all final content is accurate and completed to the authors' satisfaction as far as reasonably possible
• Resolve any vendor queries escalated from the Journals Support Team
• Provide absence cover for other in-house sub-editors
• Provide assistance for other sub-editors according to workload

Experience, Skills & Qualifications:
Essential

• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent knowledge of the English language
• Computer literate
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Word
• Good interpersonal skills
• Ability to work individually or as part of a team
• Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
• Broad interest in production and publishing
• Flexible and adaptable
• Punctual and reliable
• Good BSc within relevant subject area

Desirable

• Publishing/copy-editing experience is desirable, but not essential
• Post-graduate science qualification and/or publishing qualification is desirable, but not essential

To apply, please submit a CV and a cover letter outlining your key ambitions in the role.
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Job Posting End Date: 21-10-2025

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