Assistant Editor : London, United Kingdom : Naturejobs

"You will be responsible for progressing the content of a wide group of journals within the BMC series. This includes assessment of manuscripts for adherence to editorial policies, finding and inviting appropriate peer reviewers, making decisions on manuscripts in conjunction with the Editor and suggesting potential new members of the Editorial Board.

Excellent time management and broad scientific competence is a key part of this role, as you will need to balance the needs of a variety of journals from the BMC series, and be confident to work on manuscripts across a wide spectrum of biomedical disciplines.

Responsibilities: A. Progressing individual journal content to ensure efficient peer review and adherence to editorial policies

• Assessing manuscripts or adherence to our editorial policies and resolving questions with authors when required
• Inviting appropriate external editors to handle the manuscript
• Manuscript consultation (for example, step in to act as external editors in terms of reviewer inviting, straightforward decision-making, assisting external editors on individual manuscript problems as requested)
• Assessing reject decisions on manuscripts •Occasionally handle manuscripts through the review process
• Identify manuscripts where difficulties have arisen or where there are difficulties in reaching a straightforward editorial decision and escalate to the Editor for the relevant journal
• Highlight problems or improvements to process to Editors

B. Building Editorial Boards

• Proactively suggest to Editors areas where additional Associate Editors or Section Editors would be beneficial
• Identify potential new members for the Editorial Board for Editors’ consideration

C. Other editorial duties Other duties may include, on occasion, writing Editor’s Picks for highlighted articles, writing for the BMCseries blog, contacting external Editors for advice, liaising with the Research Integrity Group for advice and other tasks of a similar nature as directed."