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Editorial Assistant (Ref: BMC/EA/MD) Location: London Permanent Company Overview BioMed Central is the leading open access publisher of STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) research. Since it was founded in 2000, BioMed Central has successfully pioneered the open access publishing model and brought open access to the mainstream. With offices in London, North America and Asia, the company employs over 290 people across a range of operations including editorial, production, IT and business. BioMed Central is a vibrant and innovative company. It operates in a fast-paced and high-energy environment, hiring talented people who are passionate about science, technology, medicine and open access. Main Duties The Editorial Assistant role is a wide-ranging role which is essential to the smooth running of our journal portfolio. Duties include coordinating the successful set up of new journals and journals transferring from other publishers. The Editorial Assistant will work with the Journal Development team on a defined portfolio of journals, responding to queries from editors, providing reports, and maintaining internal systems and processes. They will also occasionally provide more general administrative support to the wider publishing team, including the Publishing Director. • Work with internal editors on journal development tasks for a specific set of journals, taking the lead on projects where needed. • Provide timely support for external editors, and for authors and reviewers where required by administering a busy mailbox. • Working with external editors and internal departments to drive the process to prepare new journals for launch, including coordination of building journal websites. • Compiling reports used by internal and external editors and analyzing this data. • Organising meetings and conference calls with international representation. • Provide general administrative support to the wider publishing team where needed, including to the Publishing Director. Person Specification Essential • Educated to degree level, with a biomedical background or equivalent experience • Proven experience of administrative work • Strong organizational skills, with attention to detail • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • A high level of computer literacy – understands common software (e.g. Microsoft Office suite) and gains new software skills quickly • Highly customer focused • Pleasant and tactful telephone manner • Solid examples of being able to see tasks through to completion, working to (often competing) deadlines • Analytical skills • Able to respond to non-routine circumstances • Self-starter with a positive, can-do approach to problem-solving • Able to work cooperatively with colleagues at all levels Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting the job reference (BMC/EA/MD) to [log in to unmask] BioMed Central Limited is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We welcome all applications irrespective of race, gender, age, religion or belief, relationship status, pregnancy/maternity, sexual orientation or disability. BioMed Central offers a competitive salary and benefits package including 25 days holiday plus bank holidays , contributory pension scheme , life assurance , discounted gym membership , cycle to work scheme, childcare vouchers, Give As You Earn Scheme, Volunteering scheme and an employee support programme. ********************************************************************** Commands - send an email (any subject) to [log in to unmask] with one of the following messages (ignoring text in brackets) • set psci-com nomail (to stop receiving messages while on holiday) • set psci-com mail (to resume getting messages) • signoff psci-com (to leave the list) • Subscribe here https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com Contact list owner at [log in to unmask] Small print and JISCMail acceptable use policy https://sites.google.com/site/pscicomjiscmail/the-small-print **********************************************************************