Publishing Production Editor

Description:

We are looking for an energetic professional to join us as a Publishing Production Editor. We are looking for someone with experience in production workflows and processes for scholarly publications, who is passionate about delivering the best service to our clients and authors and, who enjoys working as part of an international team of experts and specialists. This role can be remote working or based in our Dubai office.

Being a part of the Knowledge E family means becoming part of something bigger: inspiring positive change in the world while growing in your career.

The role

This role is responsible for the support of production services within our publishing department.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Handling every aspect of the production workflow from receipt of manuscripts and the generation of PDFs and XMLs files to the creation of DOIs and uploading published articles to our publishing platform
• Learning our house formatting styles, identifying and fixing problematic manuscripts so they conform to this style
• Becoming proficient in our cloud typesetting system, able to upload manuscripts and generate appropriately formatted PDFs and XMLs files
• Generating galley proofs and implementing author corrections
• Producing Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) sheets for conference collections and journal issues using the submission system
• Uploading final files (PDF, XML, Figures) to our publishing platform
• Communicating and sending content to different abstracting and indexing databases

You are

You are an enthusiastic, innovative, and proactive person, who is comfortable working autonomously and as part of a team, has no trouble staying organised and juggling multiple tasks, but is capable of intense focus and attention to detail.

Minimum job qualifications

• Extensive experience in production workflows and production systems for scholarly publishing
• Experience with XML and Adobe Acrobat Reader
• High attention to detail and excellent time management skills
• Good knowledge of MS Office skills (Word, Excel, etc.)
• Excellent team player with a proactive attitude and collaborative mindset
• Excellent verbal and written English language skills

Desired extras

• University degree
• Experience of the Open Journals System (OJS) and Manuscript Manager
• Native Arabic speaker