Associate Editor – 12 Month Contract

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £35k - £47k / year

⏳ Contract/Temporary

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🟡 Mid-level

✏️ Editor

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PLOS

51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

🔬 Science

Education • Non-profit • Science

PLOS is a non-profit organization on a mission to drive open science forward with measurable, meaningful change in research publishing, policy, and practice. Building on a strong legacy of pioneering innovation, PLOS continues to be a catalyst, reimagining models to meet open science principles, removing barriers and promoting inclusion in knowledge creation and sharing. They cover all scientific disciplines with a focus on fundamental and applied research across life, health, sustainability, engineering, and technology, ensuring that research outputs are rigorous, reliable, and accessible to all.

📋 Description

• Guide manuscripts through peer review • Oversee best-practice editorial decision-making • Commission Perspectives, Reviews, and other pieces • Collaborate with external academic editors • Engage in outreach to scholarly communities • Write editorials • Advocate for your research communities and for under-represented stakeholders • Help develop policies and special projects • Help resolve publication ethics/research integrity issues

🎯 Requirements

• Experience in a research or clinical environment, publishing, or other relevant setting; experience in medical publishing strongly preferred • Postgraduate degree in a relevant subject area required. A PhD, MD or similar level is preferred. • Highly organized and efficient, with strong critical assessment and problem-solving abilities • Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills • Love for fast-paced environments and proven adaptability to change • Demonstrate outstanding knowledge biological and medical sciences

🏖️ Benefits

• Private medical insurance • Life assurance • Income protection • Personal accident insurance • Pension with up to 10% employer match • 25 days holidays, market competitive Maternity and Paternity leave • Birthday and three winter holidays days off • 2 days paid time off for volunteering per year • Fully remote work environment with stipend on joining for home office

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