Joint Commission · 10 hours ago
Senior Managing Editor (Part-Time)
United States
Part-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$33K/yr - $44K/yr
5+ years expJoint Commission is seeking a Senior Managing Editor to oversee the day-to-day administrative functions for the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. This role involves coordinating the peer review process, ensuring editing standards, and managing production and publication issues with the journal's Publisher.
Health Care
Responsibilities
Handles the day-to-day administrative, business, correspondence, and other support functions for the journal
Primary point of contact with the journal’s Publisher
Assists editorial leadership (including the Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editors, Associate Editors, Assistant Editors, and Editorial Advisory Board as well as Executive Director, Global Publishing) in achieving the goals of the journal, including overall functioning of the journal, coordinating and taking minutes for all editorial leadership meetings, managing appropriate author and reviewer correspondence, facilitating content decisions, and related tasks
Handles contracting and payments to external editors as appropriate
Reviews all submissions to the journal to determine if they meet its content parameters, provide requisite information, and meet basic language standards for scientific literature
Coordinates the peer-review of designated articles, ensuring that peer review invitations are sent to an appropriate number of qualified reviewers, that reviewers respond in a timely way, and that reviewer comments are evaluated and, as appropriate, communicated to corresponding authors, all the while adhering to the journal's reviewer integrity and confidentiality policies
Contracts and oversees the Assistant Editor cadre that provides reviews of specified articles
Creates and maintains a robust reviewer database
Responsible for the editing standards for the Journal, working with the Publisher's Journal Manager to ensure the high quality of substantive editing, revision, and proofreading of all accepted articles and compiled issues
Monitors any disclosure of use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in all articles and ensures that any such AI use falls within acceptable parameters established in Journal and Publisher policy on AI
Understands and attends to complex technical content (including tables, figures, photographs, and line art) in addition to style, format, accuracy, clarity, and consistency
Responsible for quality of published articles and issues, including commentaries, editorials, and/or letters as well as multimedia content (e.g., video interviews and transcripts) that may be appended to the articles or developed for the website
At the direction of editorial leadership, edits certain articles as necessary
The appointed liaison for journal production with the editorial leadership team and the publisher (Elsevier)
The publisher's primary contact for all day-to-day production issues, including scheduling and web posting for individual articles and issues
Ensures that each issue is published and posted according to schedules
Gathers and tracks all data and metrics for the journal and maintains the dashboard that is used to monitor article and issue flow, timeliness, peer review, financials, and other key measures of success
Collaborates with Production during copyediting, typesetting, and proofreading
Reviews copyeditor’s changes, answers proofreaders’ queries, and checks layout as necessary
Ensures that author edits are incorporated as appropriate by Production
Directs print and digital layout and presentation of data in tables and figures to ensure that all articles follow established design standards and are intelligible to intended professional audiences
Responsible for assembling issues under the direction of editorial leadership, crafting Tables of Contents, and writing brief blurbs on all accepted articles that can be used in the journal's table of contents and on its website. These blurbs are reviewed by editorial leadership to ensure they accurately describe article content
Participates in determining and implementing marketing and public relations for the journal, in collaboration with the Publisher (Elsevier) and the sponsoring organization (Joint Commission)
Reviews promotional copy and press releases as needed
Participates in conceptualizing, creating, and/or securing multimedia content on the journal website to complement the peer-reviewed articles, with the goal of maintaining a dynamic web presence for the journal
Works with editorial leadership to create video interviews in support of key articles and topics and leverages that content to enhance the reach and visibility of the journal
Responsible for the journal’s social media, including identifying and posting key articles and topics with meaningful contextual comments to engage social media users
Qualification
Required
The level of knowledge equivalent to that ordinarily acquired through completion of a bachelor's degree in English or journalism
At least 5 to 7 years of experience managing the peer review and production processes of a scholarly journal in the health sciences
Experience in working with an online manuscript submission and tracking system
Excellent communication skills, both in writing and orally
Succinct, effective, and professional at all times
Strong substantive editing skills and ability to recognize and articulate content development needs
Ability to understand, analyze, edit, and communicate complex material in a wide range of healthcare areas and ensure effective communication of same
Excellent time management skills and comprehensive attention to details
Able to successfully manage multiple projects, work well under pressure, and adhere to all editorial and production schedules and deadlines
Interpersonal skills needed to interact with and elicit cooperation of internal staff and external authors, reviewers, and content experts
High level of professionalism and commitment to high standards, assertiveness, integrity, and discriminating judgment
Benefits
Comprehensive benefit package
Company
Joint Commission
Joint Commission enables and affirms the highest standards of healthcare quality and patient safety for all.
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Jonathan Perlin
President & CEO
Austin Frakt
Vice President and Chief Research Officer
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