Collection Editor

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.

About the Brand

Scientific American covers the most important and exciting research, ideas and knowledge in science, health, technology, the environment and society. It is committed to sharing trustworthy knowledge, enhancing our understanding of the world, and advancing social justice. Founded 1845, Scientific American is the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. It has published articles by more than 200 Nobel Prize winners and reaches more than 6 million people around the world each month through its website, print and digital editions, newsletters and app. It reaches millions more through social media and other platforms.

Job Title: Collection Editor

Location(s): Pune (Kharadi)

About the Role

The Springer Nature aims to support researchers in communicating and advancing discovery for a better world. We do this by providing a trusted environment in which researchers can quickly, easily and transparently share their discoveries, data and research stories

The Collections Management and Acquisition Team is a division within the Publishing Performance & Intelligence group providing expertise and dedicated resources to support the growth of good quality content in Collections across the SN Journal portfolio.

The Collection Editor will work with publishers, editors, Guest Editors and our operational partners to organize and manage collections on behalf of Springer Journals portfolio. They will be responsible for the execution of Collection strategy and the delivery of tasks in the end-to-end Collection workflow to ensure the publication of good-quality articles and a robust research integrity process, as well as to provide Guest Editors and authors a good editorial and publishing experience in Springer Nature Collections.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Ensure the high-standard of research integrity process implemented in the Collection workflow

• Build and leverage relationships with internal and external editorial communities

• Participate in the development of new technology aimed at solving complex topic modeling problems

• Partner with our journals’ editorial teams so that Collections strategy is congruent with journal development plans and is translated into a consistent flow of opening and closing Collections, whilst ensuring the editorial teams retain ownership of their journals’ content

• Identify and engage with Guest Editors by inviting them to edit a Collection

• Orchestrate the training of Guest Editors

• Project management of live collections and provide regular reports on the performance of Collections 

• Enhanced oversight to ensure service and quality and key escalation point

• Monitor turn around times (TATs) of submissions

• Collaborate with Center of Excellence on continuous workflow optimization and documentation

• Contact point for Guest Editor throughout the collection and answer queries from Guest Editors and authors to ensure a good experience 

• Contact of key internal partners including but not limited to Product & Platform Group, Technology, Snapp, production and customer service

• Add published articles to the collections (only relevant for non-snapp journals).
   

Experience, Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree minimum

• Solid experience of journal publishing workflows, specifically around submit to accept

• Good understanding of publishing ethics and integrity issues

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including written and in person/on the phone

• Good administrative and organizational skills

• Strong English skills in written and spoken language

• Ability to multi-task

• Has a sound understanding of the balance between operational efficiency and editorial rigor

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. If you have any access needs related to disability, neurodivergence or a chronic condition, please contact us so we can make all necessary accommodation. For more information about career opportunities in Springer Nature please visit https://careers.springernature.com/

#LI-SS3

Job Posting End Date:

4-11-2024