Assistant Publisher in Bristol

Be part of a community working together to make science better. A society publisher with the perfect blend of not-for-profit purpose and commercial perspective. Here, we help each other be the best we can be: a team big enough to impact and small enough to care. We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our growing team as an Assistant Publisher on a 12 month fixed term contract.

What will you be doing? As an Assistant Publisher, you will provide commissioning, administrative and title management support and coordination for the Partner Publishing team so they can achieve profitable growth in output, quality and reputation of our journal publishing.

Key job accountabilities include:

• Editorial Management and Development
  • To provide timely and effective administrative support to the Partner Publishing team.
  • Assist with data retrieval for custom reporting and analysis for journal strategies by using both internal reporting systems and external resources.
  • Coordinate reporting on key journal metrics and provide updates, analysis and recommendations to the Publishers and external stakeholders.
  • Acting as a point of contact for external stakeholders – answering and escalating queries from partner organisations, editors, authors.
  • Providing administrative and project support to the Partner Publishing team, including coordination of meetings with editorial boards and partner organisations.
• Projects
  • Perform market research when required using external databases.
  • Provide support for department-wide projects including oversight of relevant continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Contribute to partner commissioning including pipeline document management, provide support through research and analysis of potential partnerships.
• Commissioning Activities [For Partners with IOPP Commissioning Services]
  • Carry out desk-based commissioning for a list of journals, in line with journal commissioning plans.
  • Day-to-day management of special issues, liaising with external Guest Editors as necessary.
  • Regularly inform Publisher and Senior Publisher of commissioning activity progress.
  • Provide administrative support for the journal commissioning program, ensuring that relevant contact data is accurate and managed in compliance with GDPR.
  • Keep databases, as well as commissioning and contact databases up to date to ensure accuracy of information and effective communication.

About you The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Publishing experience in STM publishing (books or journals) desirable but not essential.
• Awareness of the role of academic research journals.
• Interest in scientific developments.

Skills & behaviours

• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) to work effectively with internal colleagues and external stakeholders (authors, reviewers, editors, board members).
• Strong working knowledge of Excel.
• Ability to work autonomously and also as part of a team.

Why work with us at IOP Publishing

• Purpose We are a world leader in the development of electronic publishing for the scientific community - working in the interests of science and scientists, we aim to maximise the impact of the research we publish.
• Culture We offer a truly international culture with offices in Europe, Asia and the US and our reach is global. Our culture is the perfect blend of dedicated and intelligent professionalism, informal, friendly collaboration and authenticity with a social conscience.
• Financial Benefits A competitive salary starting from £25,760 (Band B) depending on experience, an excellent pension scheme, a discretionary annual bonus scheme, and a range of other useful and cost-saving benefits available through our benefits platform.
• Health and Wellbeing 33+ days holiday (including bank holidays), a 35-hour working week, life assurance, cycle-to-work scheme, dental insurance, health care cash plan, and a great positive working environment in our brand new office in central Bristol - modern airy and designed with all of our colleagues in mind – for work and social time.
• Flexibility The contractual location of this role is our Bristol office, but we have recently moved to a hybrid working model with a dynamic and blended combination of office and remote working, dependent on business and team requirements. We are looking for someone to attend the Bristol office on a monthly or quarterly basis. Any travel to our Bristol office is at the employee's own expense.

IOP Publishing is an equal opportunity employer. Our goal is to ensure that diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) are built into our identity in a way that is natural and sustainable, visible through the work we produce, our company branding, our professional networks and the communities we serve and support, which includes our employees, talent communities and candidates. We particularly welcome applicants from under-represented backgrounds. We make recruitment and workplace adjustments wherever we can, so please let us know if there’s anything that we can do to support you. Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for candidates. If however you already have the right to work in the UK or hold an eligible work permit or visa, we encourage you to apply for this position.