Dear Colleagues - please see the advertisement below and feel free to get in touch with me if you are interested in the position.
Best wishes,
Nick Ellison
Chair, Editorial Board, Journal of Social Policy.
EDITOR(S) OF SOCIAL POLICY DIGEST ONLINE
A replacement editor is sought for the Social Policy Digest, on the retirement of the current editors.
The Digest is a major online resource on UK and European social policy issues, providing a regularly updated listing of developments across the whole social policy field. It is published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the UK Social Policy Association, in conjunction with the Journal of Social Policy.
The Digest editor will be required to:
. Gather information on UK and pan-European social policy developments, with a focus on resources that are available online.
. Identify items for inclusion in the Digest, and prepare short summaries (including relevant source information and links).
. Update the Digest website on a regular (daily or near-daily) basis.
. Prepare monthly updates for inclusion in the online archive/database maintained by Cambridge University Press.
The editor is an ex officio member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Social Policy, and reports to the Board formally on an annual basis.
The editorship is a self-employed position, attracting a monthly fee (reviewed annually). The workload of the editor is estimated to be equivalent to around 2½-3 days per week. The post may be home-based (no premises provided). Support is available with certain IT-related costs and other expenses.
Applicants should have a background in social policy work, good drafting skills, good basic competence in IT-related tasks (particularly in text and file manipulation), and the ability to work quickly and accurately without supervision.
Applications are welcome from those wishing to share the duties of the post between two or more people.
Expressions of interest should be sent to: Nick Ellison, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds ([log in to unmask]) by 30 April 2013.
Person specification
Essential qualifications
. A good general knowledge and understanding of UK social policy issues.
. Ability to draft quickly and accurately.
. Good basic competence in IT-related tasks, including text preparation and file manipulation.
. Availability for work on a daily or near-daily basis (throughout all or most of the year).
. Ability to work independently without supervision.
Desirable (non-essential) qualifications
. Familiarity with RSS feeds/aggregation, html coding, and text-processing macros.
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