Journals Production Manager (E5167)

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers•Piscataway, NJ

About The Position

This role is responsible for managing a portfolio of journals and magazines through the editorial/production process, by effectively using a combination of external and internal editorial resources to ensure cost-effective processing of content. This role concentrates on the timely production of publications content by working with authors, volunteers, vendors, and staff to ensure that all steps in the production process are completed on schedule and at a high level of quality. This role expands to include advising EICs about IEEE policies, processes, and product management concerns. The incumbent in this role is responsible for overseeing the training and monitoring of external editorial resources employed by vendor partners on publications from manuscript acceptance to publication online and/or print, including editorial and production work. A high level of experience with publications, including strong job knowledge, good editing and project planning skills, high productivity, and good judgment are required. The role typically reports to a Managing Editor. While this position has no internal direct reports, there is supervisorial responsibility for monitoring the quality, accuracy, and timeliness of work performed by external editorial resources.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience English, journalism, or communications
4-7 years technical editing experience, including managing external editorial resources
Strong communication and grammatical skills are required.
Experience in reading and parsing mathematical statements and expressions is preferred.
Must be capable of exercising sound judgment when interfacing with authors, editors, society officers, and other members of IEEE staff.
Excellent organizational and time-management skills, the capability to edit and manage a large volume of pages per year on one or more publications, and the ability to meet tight/multiple deadlines are required.
Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to work with volunteers, vendors, and external editorial resources to enforce appropriate quality levels in editorial products; this may include working with authors and other volunteers who have ESL challenges.
As defined in IEEE Policies, individuals currently serving on an IEEE board or committee are not eligible to apply.
PLEASE NOTE\: This position is not budgeted for employer-sponsored immigration support, this includes all persons in F (both CPT and OPT), J, H, L, or O status.
For information on work demands and conditions required for this position, please consult the reference document, ADA Requirements.
This position is classified under Category I - Office Positions.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Nice To Haves

Experience in reading and parsing mathematical statements and expressions is preferred.

Responsibilities

Through quality checks and feedback at various stages of production, ensure quality of all material by reviewing content edited by external editorial resources for accuracy and consistency.
Manage process and relationship between IEEE and external editorial resources on assigned portfolio of journals and magazines.
Monitor skill level of and provide efficient education and knowledge to external editorial resources.
Effectively communicate with volunteer EICs, editorial offices, and/or Guest Editors about receipt of materials or special instructions (e.g., articles, issues).
Assist authors with every aspect of the production process, including use of IEEE’s Digital Tools.
Ensure complete delivery of final publication materials from the external editorial resources (e.g., XML meta-data, print PDF, IEEE Xplore PDF, etc.) and multimedia files (handled in house).
Manage production schedules and prioritize workload in order to meet timeliness metrics, ensure all steps in the production process completed on schedule.
Work with Senior Managers, Journals Production, to ensure a high level of quality of publications.
Provide status information to department management, other staff, volunteers, and authors as required.
Assist Senior Managers, Journals Production, in training and development of external editorial resources, including, but not limited to education of IEEE house editorial style and editorial quality checks at both article and issue levels.
Represents IEEE at industry meetings, including the annual Panel of Editors Meeting, and participates in committees/boards related to areas of responsibility.
Travel anticipated at 5%.
Other duties may be assigned.