Dove Editorial Administrator

Company Description
**Informa** is a leading academic publishing, business intelligence, knowledge and events business, creating unique content and connectivity for customers all over the world. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100.

**Taylor & Francis **is one of the world’s largest publishers of high-quality, peer reviewed scholarly journals, books, e-books and reference works. We empower learners, thinkers and doers with trusted knowledge that advances research and enriches lives. We bring together diverse people, ideas and opinions to validate and publish the experts, theories and truths that matter. And we’ve been doing this in an unbroken arc since 1798.

Our purpose is to foster human progress through knowledge. We strongly believe that this requires us to encourage and examine different ideas and voices, so that any work that meets our exacting levels of quality deserves to be included in our publications. This requires open minds, the opportunity for robust debate, and the courage to defend perspectives that stand up to scrutiny, even if they conflict with our personal beliefs or values. Because that’s the only way to find the best obtainable version of the truth and, ultimately, foster human progress. If you agree, then we’d love to hear from you.

**Job Description**:
We have an exciting opportunity for an Editorial Administrator to join the Dove team.

Receive author revised manuscripts as submitted. Verify completeness and quality of submission. Liaise with the QC team to check for plagiarism in the submitted revised manuscripts. Once submitted revised manuscripts pass their in-house checks, liaise with each journal’s Editor-in-Chief / Associate Editor and ensure that the author receives prompt notification of the Editor’s decision. The Revised Manuscripts Coordinator will liaise with the author to ensure the timely delivery of the revised manuscript and supply of that revised manuscript to the Editor. The Editor will make a final decision as to whether the manuscript can be published. That decision, whether accepted or rejected for publication is communicated to the author by the Revised Manuscripts Coordinator. Accepted manuscripts are then passed to the invoicing group in-house.

**What you’ll be doing**:

- Prompt in-house checking of submitted revised manuscripts;
- Clear notes made within “Content Reactor” to indicate any special issues arising;
- Professional and formal communications with authors and editors at all times;
- Next Action Dates are set in accordance with departmental standards. Those Next Action Dates are met
- Any Key Performance Indicators that are set;
- Standard compliance checks for revised manuscripts received.
- Check that a clear and complete response letter has been submitted for all revised manuscripts, which contains point by point reply to reviewer’s comments.
- Check all figures, tables, videos, and supplementary files provided and cited; and figure files are of correct format and high quality.
- Check that any submitted graphical abstracts are of high quality and fit with the manuscript topic.
- Select any appropriate eye-catching figures to be displayed on the website to draw readers attention to the article.
- Check disclosure section doesn’t contain any links to the authors own website.
- Abstract and references are included and in the correct format.
- Keywords are included.
- An SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) title and brief abstract is written for each paper.
- All the authors affiliations include the required information.
- Tracked and Clean version of revised manuscript match and are not different versions.
- No changes to Author list as per GPP3 Guidelines
- Check all authors have been checked through Retraction watch
- Check Manuscript has passed iThenticate
- Check Manuscript has passed Scidetect
- Check requested ethics/ copyright corrections are addressed.
- Check CC-BY license have correct funding
- Check paper has not been published before
- Check correct Editor has been selected. The same Editor at first decision should be the same for final decision (unless genuine reason to be different).
- Organise a re-review of the revisions made if requested by the Editor.

**Qualifications**:
**What we are looking for**:

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong time-management skills.
- Ability to readily adapt to changes in process and implementation.
- A problem solver and self-starter who can independently begin/own projects and find solutions to problems under mínimal supervision.
- Detail oriented, with an ability to prioritize multiple tasks to meet the needs of multiple stakeholders.

Additional Information
**Location**:

- You must have the right to work and live in New Zealand.
- Relocation support is not provided for this role.

At Taylor & Francis we care about our colleagues, promoting work-life balance, wellbeing, and flexible working. You will be joining a