PLOS Medicine Senior Editor, Team Manager

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Requirements:

• Professional experience in managing peer review, making decisions based on the scientific merits of submitted content and enforcement of editorial standards for original research publications.
• Experience managing and training staff; cross-cultural competence is desirable.
• Excellent analytic, communication and presentation skills, both written and oral.
• Embraces change with a positive attitude.
• Organized and efficient with a strong problem-solving ability.
• A postgraduate degree in a relevant discipline.

Responsibilities:

• Manage Associate and/or Senior Editors.
• Recruit, train, manage and develop team members, setting objectives and taking accountability for the team’s progress towards objectives.
• Manage the work of your team and collaborate with PLOS’ vendor partners to ensure editorial standards are upheld
• Develop the editorial vision and strategy for your team
• As part of the managerial team at PLOS Medicine and working with the Editorial Board, devise and recommend policies and processes appropriate for the subject area
• Oversee manuscripts within specific subject areas of the journal scope to ensure fast and thorough review aligned to PLOS Medicine publication criteria
• Take a strategic, data-driven and disciplined approach to shaping editorial policy, developing open science practices, and engaging with communities through activities that are aligned with the publishing strategy and contain measurable targets.
• Work autonomously to support strong author service and ensure efficient and timely handling of manuscript submissions as well as the quality of the published output.
• Ensure efficient submission handling by proactively managing the editorial workflow in your team’s subject areas.
• Develop and manage procedures to ensure optimized submission handling in your subject areas.
• Decide on publication ethics cases prepared by the Publication Ethics team and work with the Publication Ethics team to bring active cases to a swift resolution.
• Develop and update editorial policies as needed.
• Lead journal-wide projects.
• Plan staff editor conference attendance in the specified research area. Represent PLOS Medicine at external meetings.
• Contribute to the development and launch of products and services to grow adoption of open access and open science.
• Collaborate with other editorial teams to support cross-journal activities.