[Hiring] PLOS Medicine Senior Editor, Team Manager @Public Library of Science
Mar 01, 2025 - Public Library of Science is hiring a remote PLOS Medicine Senior Editor, Team Manager. 💸 Salary: £58,000 - £80,000. 📍Location: UK.
Role Description
This role is to be filled by an employee working from a remote location within the UK.
PLOS is a nonprofit organization on a mission to drive open science forward with measurable, meaningful change in research publishing, policy, and practice. We believe in a better future where science is open to all, for all.
The Division Editor is the strategic head for their subject area in PLOS Medicine. In coordination with the Executive Editor and Editor-in-Chief, they are responsible for creating and implementing a vision for content and promoting this within PLOS Medicine and the external community. This role maintains high standards for author service and contributes to policies and procedures that support Open Science practices.
Supervisor Responsibilities
- Manage Associate and/or Senior Editors.
- Recruit, train, manage and develop team members, setting objectives and taking accountability for the team’s progress towards objectives.
- Manage the work of your team and collaborate with PLOS’ vendor partners to ensure editorial standards are upheld.
- Develop the editorial vision and strategy for your team.
Responsibilities
- As part of the managerial team at PLOS Medicine and working with the Editorial Board, devise and recommend policies and processes appropriate for the subject area.
- Oversee manuscripts within specific subject areas of the journal scope to ensure fast and thorough review aligned to PLOS Medicine publication criteria.
- Take a strategic, data-driven and disciplined approach to shaping editorial policy, developing open science practices, and engaging with communities through activities that are aligned with the publishing strategy and contain measurable targets.
- Work autonomously to support strong author service and ensure efficient and timely handling of manuscript submissions as well as the quality of the published output.
- Ensure efficient submission handling by proactively managing the editorial workflow in your team’s subject areas.
- Develop and manage procedures to ensure optimized submission handling in your subject areas.
- Decide on publication ethics cases prepared by the Publication Ethics team and work with the Publication Ethics team to bring active cases to a swift resolution.
- Develop and update editorial policies as needed.
- Lead journal-wide projects.
- Plan staff editor conference attendance in the specified research area. Represent PLOS Medicine at external meetings.
- Contribute to the development and launch of products and services to grow adoption of open access and open science.
- Collaborate with other editorial teams to support cross-journal activities.
Knowledge and Skills
- Professional experience in managing peer review, making decisions based on the scientific merits of submitted content and enforcement of editorial standards for original research publications.
- Experience managing and training staff; cross-cultural competence is desirable.
- Excellent analytic, communication and presentation skills, both written and oral.
- Embraces change with a positive attitude.
- Organized and efficient with a strong problem-solving ability.
Qualifications
- A postgraduate degree in a relevant discipline.
Physical Requirements & Work Environment
- Prolonged periods stationary at a desk and working on a computer.
- Some national and international travel may be required occasionally.
- Some flexibility to work across time zones.
Salary
The base salary range we’ve established for this position is (UK) £58,000 - £80,000.
Benefits
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- Personal accident insurance
- Pension with up to 10% employer match
- 25 days holidays, market competitive Maternity and Paternity leave
- Birthday and three winter holidays days off
- 2 days paid time off for volunteering per year
- Fully remote work environment with stipend on joining for home office
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Salary
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£58,000 - £80,000
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Remote
Location
UK
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Mar 01, 2025
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| 📍 | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: UK |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
