Job Description

There is a job opportunity for a Junior Editorial Coordinator to join the scholarly publishing team of our customer, which is in the educational sector.

Throughout the editorial process from manuscript submission to acceptance, the chosen candidate will oversee editorial development, review workflow, and author support in addition to handling submissions of manuscripts and coordinating reviews for the publisher's collection of scientific journals.

Requirements:

• A relevant undergraduate degree, e.g., Bachelor's degree in English and Linguistics
• Customer Service experience
• Strong communication skills - both written and verbal
• Excellent English (read, write, understand, and speak) language skills are a requirement
• Good language skills in any of the following official South African languages would be advantageous: Afrikaans, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sesotho, Sepedi, Setswana (understand and read)
• Excellent MS Office skills (especially in MS Word, Excel, and Outlook)
• Highly organized and self-motivated, with strong time-management and project management skills
• Able to work well under pressure in an open-plan environment
• Able to work independently and as part of a team

Responsibilities:

• Conduct initial manuscript quality and permission checks.
• Implement checks (e.g., checklists, plagiarism etc.) on various process points and documents to evaluate the standard of work/task. Take corrective action if the manuscript deviates from the standard required.
• Apply standard procedures to manuscripts allocated to enhance customer experience (e.g., routine email updates, updating user profiles).
• Transmit actions, tasks, or decisions from the Editor-in-Chief/Commissioning Editor/Section Editor/Guest Editors onto the workflow management system.
• Monitor timeliness of work/task against average desired timelines and take corrective action to resolve delays.
• Transfer (e.g., masking), apply versioning and sound record-keeping on electronic documents at various process points.
• Liaising with authors, editors and reviewers and providing support with publishing-related queries on using and navigating the workflow management system, as well as managing the online submission system and inbox

To apply, please send your CV with your salary expectations to

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Should you not receive feedback within 48 hours, please accept your application as unsuccessful.

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