Assistant Editor

Springer Nature
 

Job Title:     Assistant Editor

Location:     Pune

Reports to: Team Lead

About the 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.

Purpose of the Role 

Assistant Editors play an important role in the manuscript ‘submission to accepts’ process, overseeing tasks such as conducting suitability checks, finding, and assigning EBMs, and managing communication with editors, reviewers, and authors. They play a key role in facilitating decision-making, resolving author queries, and ensuring manuscripts progress smoothly through the publishing pipeline. Furthermore, they monitor the overall health of the journal by reviewing its performance, identifying challenges, and proposing solutions. In essence, they act as catalysts in the peer review process, ensuring high-quality manuscripts are delivered to EBMs and peer review is conducted efficiently and within set timelines.

Responsibilities

• Perform enhanced Quality Checks (Suitability Assessment) on manuscripts to ensure they meet our requirements to proceed to editor assignment/peer review 
• Responsible for managing Journal pipeline by processing manuscripts from 'Ready for editorial' through to final decision
• Invite EBMs to handle the manuscript OR assign manuscripts to an appropriate handling editor
• Support Editors throughout the process, creating excellent working relationships with them
• Collaborate and build rapport with Journal editorial staff for continuous improvement/updates and new initiatives in the process
• Handle email correspondence between the various parties involved in the publication process; (Authors, Reviewers, Editors, Guest editors, Readers, etc. for the assigned manuscript)
• Assess the decision recommendation of Handling Editors and send final decision to authors
• Monitor progress throughout the review process and provide help/support to reach final decision 
• Mentor and support new team members
• Provide inputs on improving the process to reduce TAT and manage pipeline at various stages of the editorial process

Key Relationships

• Authors, EBMs, and Peer Reviewers
• Journal Editors
• Journal Editorial Office
• External Partners (Vendors)

Experience, Skills & Qualifications

Experience

• 2 years of experience with minimum 1 year in Scientific Publishing
• Good understanding of Publishing process and Peer review systems

Skills

• Good Communication Skills (written and verbal English)
• Email etiquettes
• Subject matter expertise (STEM)– Medicine/Life/Physical Science/Engineering
• Strong analytical and logical reasoning ability
• Customer service and business communication experience
• Experience in Manuscript handling will be an added advantage

Qualifications     

• Master’s degree in- History/Literature/Psychology/Education/Economics/Finance/Politics and Social Science/Media/Business, Management and Operations/Philosophy