JOINPublisher – UK/Beijing based
Job Summary
IOP Publishing are looking for motivated Publishers to join our team! We have a mixture of permanent and fixed-term contract roles. This is an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic and rapidly expanding Journals Development team. If you’re passionate about science communication and its impact, then look no further!
Role Overview
Publishers are responsible for shaping the strategy for a portfolio of journals and lead on its development towards those goals. As a Publisher, you will develop and implement commissioning plans through desk-based and in-person author interactions, as well as engage and manage Editorial Boards and partner relationships at the journal-level. Reporting into the Senior Publisher, this role will require you to work with other Publishers and Assistant Publishers across the Journals Development team, as well as with other stakeholders across the business.
What will you be doing?
Key job accountabilities include:
- Work with the Senior Publisher to implement the portfolio and journals strategies
- Develop and review commissioning plans in line with journal growth
- Build and develop existing relationship with potential authors and Editorial Board members
- Manage and develop relationships with partners
About you:
Successful applicants should demonstrate the following:
- STM publishing experience
- Excellent communication skills
- Demonstrable teamworking skills
- Stakeholder management experience
What we offer:
For UK-based candidates:
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer employees an excellent pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution), discretionary annual bonus scheme, 25+ days holiday (not including bank holidays), standard 35-hour working week, volunteering days, and a comprehensive benefits package including private medical insurance, life assurance, and a range of flexible benefits such as cycle to work scheme, discounted gym membership, healthcare cash plan, and payroll giving.
Location
Our modern and contemporary offices are based in the thriving city centre of Bristol, a stone’s throw away from Temple Meads train station, and within walking distance of Cabot Circus shopping centre, and numerous cafés and restaurants. Named on more than one occasion as the best city in the UK to live in, Bristol is a cosmopolitan and creative city boasting a historic harbour, internationally renowned cultural institutions and home to world-class festivals and events.
As there will not be a requirement for the person in this role to be in the office on a weekly basis, we are open to considering applicants from a wider geographical area who are happy to travel to Bristol up to once a month, subject to business needs.
For Beijing-based applicants:
This role is based in our Beijing office, with the possibility of working from home 2 days per week.
The office is in Haidian district, which is known to be a highly academic area, and easily accessible by public transportation. We currently have 18 colleagues (a mixture of editors, publishers, sales and marketing roles) working here, but there’s plenty of room to accommodate new friendly faces! To keep everyone engaged and feel like they’re part of the IOPP community, we organise monthly office get togethers, and we also have regular team building activities.
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer social insurances, house funding at the highest rate and 20 days of annual leave.
To apply, please submit your CV and cover note through our careers site.
We aim to review applications soon after they are received, and will arrange interviews when there’s someone we’re keen to meet, so please don’t hold off applying until the closing date is approaching – we don’t want you, or us, to miss out!
About us:
IOP Publishing is an international scientific publisher, through which leading-edge research is distributed worldwide. Our rapidly expanding journals programme is published alongside other sources of scientific information in the form of eBooks, magazines and conference proceedings. Other publications include easily accessible community and regional websites. We are a world leader in the development of electronic publishing for the scientific community and have offices in Europe, Asia and the US. Working in the interests of science and scientists, we aim to maximise the impact of the research we publish.
IOP Publishing is central to the Institute of Physics, a not-for-profit society. Any financial surplus earned by IOP Publishing goes to supporting science through the activities of the Institute. With a continuing focus on growth, we recognise that every single person has a real part to play if we’re to achieve our aim of becoming the world’s leading publisher in our field.
IOP Publishing is an equal opportunity employer. Our goal is to ensure that diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) are built into our identity in a way that is natural and sustainable, visible through the work we produce, our company branding, our professional networks and the communities we serve and support, which includes our employees, talent communities and candidates. We particularly welcome applicants from under-represented backgrounds.