React Job: Partner Journal Operations Manager

We are on a mission to make science open so everyone can live healthy lives on a healthy planet

Who we are

Frontiers is an award-winning open science platform and leading open access scholarly publisher.

We are one of the largest and most cited publishers globally. To date, our 200,000 freely available research articles have received more than 1 billion views and downloads and 2 million citations. Our journals span science, health, humanities and social sciences, engineering, and sustainability. And we continue to expand into new academic disciplines so more researchers can publish open access.

Be part of the publishing revolution and help us transform the way research is published, evaluated, and communicated to the world.

Description

Frontiers Publishing Partnerships leads the movement to make science and research open by partnering with societies to support the publication of their journals. Frontiers has been a trailblazer for Open Science since its founding 15 years ago and is a recognized leader in Open Access technology. This market-leading technology backed by a professional team makes Frontiers a reliable and high-quality home for society journals.

We are seeking a detail-oriented, motivational leader to join us as a Partner Journal Operations Manager who will oversee a portfolio of Society Partnership journals and lead a team of Specialists handling the research integrity and peer review pipeline of these partner journals. The successful candidate will be responsible for meeting performance targets, staff management, and collaborating with the journal development teams to ensure a successful partnership with society journals.

The position will provide the successful candidate with an excellent opportunity to work within the exciting new and growing department of Frontiers Publishing Partnerships, working closely with the Partnerships Operations Manager.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for monitoring progress and ensuring that the team meets key objectives.

• Train new team members, provide performance feedback and conduct appraisals.

• Inspire, mentor and drive team development with initiatives and projects.

• Optimise team processes by identifying areas for improvement, proposing solutions and implementing them.

• Manage society-specific standard operating procedures and user guides for each journal within your portfolio, including their research integrity requirements, peer review workflows and other quality criteria.

• Revise or draft new peer review procedures and policies, in line with society-specific requirements and evolving industry standards.

• Work closely with the journal development team to manage client relationships, represent the operations team to external clients through platform demos, onboarding discussions and editorial board training.

• Be the point of knowledge for clients and your team of specialists regarding research integrity issues related to scholarly publishing and review pipeline optimization.

Requirements

• Experience in working with publishing partnerships would be an advantage.

• Previous line management experience would be an advantage.

• Highly organised with an ability to digest large amounts of information and juggle multiple projects and needs at the same time.

• Initiative taking, dynamic and focused personality who can react effectively to urgent situations.

• Working knowledge of flowcharts, process maps and spreadsheet programs would be an advantage.

• Excellent time management, analytical, problem-solving skills and a proactive approach.

Benefits

With more than 50 nationalities represented in our global team, you will work regularly with teammates in other countries, and with our community of researchers, editors, and authors from around the globe.

Our mission to create solutions for healthy lives also extends to the working environment we provide for our employees.

This includes:

100% remote working

Employees now have the flexibility to choose where they want to work, with remote working available on a part- or full-time basis (not applicable to some Workplace/IT jobs due to nature of role requiring presence onsite, in the office).

Learning and development

All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning (and Pluralsight for our technology team), an annual personal learning budget, and dedicated L&D time.

Wellbeing

We offer free online yoga classes, an employee assistance plan, access to the Headspace app, and four wellbeing days on top of your annual leave allowance.

Volunteering opportunities

Employees can dedicate three days each year to volunteer for a personal cause or through our volunteering partner platform, Alaya.

Frontiers actively embraces diversity and is a safe and welcoming workplace. Recruitment is free from discrimination – including based on race, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation. With over 600 employees from more than 50 different nations, our diversity creates vibrant teams and constantly challenges us to appreciate multiple perspectives.

Job Type: Full-time