AFRICA CENTER FOR STRATEGY & POLICY is hiring: Managing Editor in Washington
AFRICA CENTER FOR STRATEGY & POLICY, Washington, DC, United States, 20022
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Primary Functions
In this position, you will use your outstanding editorial, management, and people skills as a key member of our Editorial Services department. You will assign editorial tasks; supervise editorial fellows and provide senior-level editorial support. The editorial manager will support in both copy editing and line editing, to help assure the quality of Acstrap’s publications that range from research reports to policy briefs. The Managing Editor works closely with members of the Editorial Team with the following primary functions:
- Review or spot-check colleagues’ work as assigned to maintain standards and accuracy.
- Assists with the final stages of the peer-review process by notifying authors of journal decisions and/or transmitting final versions of accepted manuscripts.
- Communicate with authors to revise and resubmit their work for publication.
- Assign submissions to Editorial Fellows for copy, line and format editing.
- Edit research reports submitted to the Center for publication.
- Ensure proper format of all submissions prior to publication.
- Participate in planning and brainstorming digital strategies to increase efficiency of the editorial process.
In this position, you will use your outstanding editorial, management, and people skills as a key member of our Editorial Services department. You will assign editorial tasks; supervise editorial fellows and provide senior-level editorial support. The editorial manager will support in both copy editing and line editing, to help assure the quality of Acstrap’s publications that range from research reports to policy briefs. The Managing Editor works closely with members of the Editorial Team with the following primary functions:
- Review or spot-check colleagues’ work as assigned to maintain standards and accuracy.
- Assists with the final stages of the peer-review process by notifying authors of journal decisions and/or transmitting final versions of accepted manuscripts.
- Communicate with authors to revise and resubmit their work for publication.
- Assign submissions to Editorial Fellows for copy, line and format editing.
- Edit research reports submitted to the Center for publication.
- Ensure proper format of all submissions prior to publication.
- Participate in planning and brainstorming digital strategies to increase efficiency of the editorial process.
List the POSITION TITLE and YOUR FULL NAME in the EMAIL SUBJECT LINE.
Dr. Hardy’s email address is: rhardy@acstrap.org
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Mid-Senior level
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