Editorial Assistant

Join our team as an Editorial Assistant on a part-time, fixed-term maternity cover contract, helping us to support teachers, champion great teaching and raise the status of the profession by supporting the publication of our peer-reviewed journal.

The Chartered College of Teaching is a charity and the professional body for teachers. We are working to empower a knowledgeable and respected teaching profession through membership and accreditation. Our activities mainly focus on four key areas: membership, teacher CPD and accreditation, research, policy and events, online and print resources.

We are recruiting within the content and publishing team to welcome an Editorial Assistant who believes in our mission to support the work we do. Over the coming months, the Editorial Assistant will keep the journal's peer review cycle on track, provide high-quality support to authors and reviewers and contribute to wider publishing activity across the Chartered College. This would be an ideal opportunity for a highly organised, detail-oriented person with an interest in publishing and education.

You will:

• Take ownership of the peer review administration process, from sourcing reviewers to tracking deadlines and formatting reports.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across the team, providing excellent customer service to authors and reviewers.
• Help to keep the professional membership organisation's publications running to a high standard.

Most of your time will be spent supporting the peer review process for our practitioner journal. This includes researching and identifying suitable reviewers, matching them to article abstracts and manuscripts, and coordinating the allocation of two reviewers per article. You will send articles out to reviewers with the relevant guidelines, track response deadlines, and follow up as needed. Once reviews are received, you will format the reports to a consistent standard and save them to the shared Google Drive.

You will spend some of your time on proofreading and editorial tasks, including marking up corrections on PDFs and supporting the Content Editor with copy amendments during the production process. You will also act as a first point of contact for authors, providing clear and friendly communication to support them through the publication process – from submission through to final publication.

You will spend some of your time supporting wider publishing activity across the College, including uploading and updating content on WordPress and carrying out other publishing-related tasks as and when required. Beyond your core responsibilities, you will also participate in team meetings and be encouraged to take part in professional learning activities and training to maintain and develop your knowledge and skills.

About You: Editorial support for us means keeping our peer review process running efficiently and providing a positive, professional experience for the authors and reviewers who contribute to our journal. We are looking for someone who is motivated by our vision and is passionate about publishing and supporting the work of teachers.

Skills and experience:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with a confident, professional email manner.
• Strong organisational skills with experience of managing multiple tasks and deadlines.
• Experience of delivering high-quality customer service to a range of external stakeholders.
• Experience of, or interest in, proofreading and copyediting.
• Confidence using Google Drive and online content management systems (e.g. WordPress).
• An interest in the education sector and the support and development of teachers.

As an organisation we care deeply about creating a working environment that supports our people to grow personally and professionally. These are reflected in our organisational values which outline the distinctive working culture we are looking to create.

What to expect from the recruitment process:

• All applications are anonymised until the point of interview.
• Line Managers trained in recognising bias.
• All interviews are conducted via Zoom and camera use is optional.

We are an employer committed to the safeguarding of children and young people.