Editor – APAC

As an Editor, you will focus on ensuring the provision of an efficient peer review process across a portfolio of journals. Reporting to the Managing Editor, you’ll play an important role in improving service quality, supporting and supervising the team, and achieving the goals for the group. In collaboration with the Journals Development team, you will support initiatives aimed at improving the status of our journals, capturing high quality content and increasing market share through knowledge of the subject area and community engagement.

You’ll demonstrate expertise in the peer review process including reviewer selection, decision making on articles, efficient handling of papers and mentoring team members to ensure processing targets are met. You will be expected to contribute to, and lead on, continuous improvement initiatives to increase the efficiency and quality of our service.

Working collaboratively with colleagues and developing effective relationships with external stakeholders, you’ll take a proactive approach to making the most of your network of scientific contacts, and identify promotional opportunities to improve journal visibility through conference attendance and publishing workshops. You will have strong communication and organisational skills combined with commercial awareness and understanding of what it takes to make a journal attractive to its community, helping to make it first choice for authors and readers.

Please note that this is a full-time, hybrid position. 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 the Beijing office for monthly/quarterly team meetings, subject to business needs.

About you:

Applicants should demonstrate:

• Proficiency in English and Chinese
• A degree or PhD in a relevant scientific subject
• STM Publishing experience
• Expert knowledge of peer review processes and awareness of COPE guidelines
• Ability to take responsibility, assess complex situations, and work autonomously, but also as part of a team, motivating others
• Excellent communication and networking skills, with the ability to build strong relationships

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.

Vision Our vision is that diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) are built into our identity in a way that is both natural and sustainable and that is visible through the work we produce, our Ways of Being, our company branding, our professional networks and the colleagues and communities we serve and support.