Senior Editor - Team Manager

March 19

🌵 Arizona – Remote

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🏄 California – Remote

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💵 $105k - $145k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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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.

research • early career researchers • scholarly publishing • scientific research • open science

51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

🔬 Science

📋 Description

• PLOS is a nonprofit organization on a mission to drive open science forward with measurable, meaningful change in research publishing, policy, and practice. • The Sr. Editor, Team Manager is the strategic head for their subject area in PLOS Medicine. • Manage Associate and/or Senior Editors. • Recruit, train, manage and develop team members, setting objectives and taking accountability for the team’s progress towards objectives. • Develop the editorial vision and strategy for your team. • Oversee manuscripts within specific subject areas of the journal scope to ensure fast and thorough review aligned to PLOS Medicine publication criteria. • Work autonomously to support strong author service and ensure efficient and timely handling of manuscript submissions as well as the quality of the published output.

🎯 Requirements

• Professional experience in managing peer review, making decisions based on the scientific merits of submitted content and enforcement of editorial standards for original research publications. • Experience managing and training staff; cross-cultural competence is desirable. • Excellent analytic, communication and presentation skills, both written and oral. • Embraces change with a positive attitude. • Organized and efficient with a strong problem-solving ability.

🏖️ 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 • 401k with employer match • Employee sponsored health, dental and vision insurance (Dental and Vision 100% employer paid) • Paid Vacation, 12 public holidays and sick leave • Parental leave • Birthday and three winter holidays days off • Short term and long term disability insurance • 2 days paid time off for volunteering per year • Fully remote work environment with stipend on joining for home office