JOB: Digital Publishing Specialist (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

From the announcement:

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks an innovative, proactive, collaborative, and motivated professional excited about advancing experimental and open forms of scholarly publication in the position of Digital Publishing Specialist. Reporting to the Head of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, the Digital Publishing Specialist will provide the Library’s Scholarly Communication and Publishing Unit with outreach, editorial, and production workflow support as part of the Library’s effort to offer high quality, open access publishing services to the Urbana-Champaign campus and beyond through the Illinois Open Publishing Network (https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/). The Specialist will initially also participate in the Andrew W. Mellon-funded “Publishing Without Walls” initiative (https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/256174).

This position administers day-to-day author consultations and editorial processes for digital publishing projects, including editorial tasks related to developmental editing and technical consultations with authors new to writing multimodal (text + multimedia) publications. The incumbent will interact with other members of the Scholarly Communication and Publishing team, Library IT, and the Scholarly Communication and Repository Services team, and will, in collaboration with the unit head and the research programmer, troubleshoot and streamline digital publishing production workflows. They will exercise independent professional judgement in working with authors, editors, freelancers, and other stakeholders in the development of particular publications and broader publishing operations. The incumbent leads instruction on digital publishing skills and technologies with partners in the Library and across campus.

As a member of the Scholarly Communication and Publishing Unit, the Digital Publishing Specialist works with other units in the library to achieve goals related to scholarly communication and digital scholarship broadly, including the Scholarly Commons (http://www.library.illinois.edu/sc/) and the Research Data Service within the Office of Research.