Editorial Design and Production Coordinator - Toronto, Canada - University of Toronto Press

University of Toronto Press

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Toronto, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Here's what you'll be doing....

Manage the editorial and production workflow for a portfolio of scholarly journals, ensuring that issues are published in print and online in a timely manner.

You will oversee responsibility for the journals, from article submission to publication.

For this position, we currently have the option of working remotely or in a hybrid model. However, this position may initially require some inoffice time mixed with work from home during the onboarding phase.

Key Responsibilities include:

Facilitate clear communication and collaborative relationships with internal staff, journal authors and editors, and external vendors and freelancers
Maintain all journal schedules and deadlines, and enforce manuscript submission deadlines
Receive files from editorial office and/or from authors; assesses files for completeness and compliance with journal style; confirm that all images, figures, and photos are of sufficient resolution; send manuscripts to vendors for content preparation and XML tagging
Maintain contact information database; coordinate author agreements and author welcome letters
Coordinate freelance and vendor copyediting, enforcing deadlines and monitoring the quality of work and compliance with journal styles
Collect appropriate copyright permissions to reproduce images, poetry, and any other material to which the article author(s) does not hold rights
Evaluate requested author revisions and final editor changes using Adobe Acrobat, review typeset revisions for accuracy, and check final printready PDF files for quality and completeness
Obtain print quotes from printing vendors and oversee printing process, ensuring quality and timeliness
Attend various editorial board and journal meetings, take minutes, prepare and circulate journal reports, agenda, and any other necessary documents
Prepare and distribute monthly reports and data related to the online peer review system and submissions and/or usage and readership
Provide online peer review system technical support to clients, editors and authors
Lead the development of new sites on the manuscript submission and peer review site
Participate in special projects

Education, Qualifications, and Experience:

Postsecondary graduate; or equivalent combination of education/experience
3+ years' experience in journal publishing or related environment, including editorial and/or production
Publishing certificate an asset
French language an asset

Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes:

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; proactive problemsolving skills; flexibility, adaptability, and organizational skills
Tact and good judgement; grace under pressure; ability to set, meet, and enforce deadlines
Ability to work both independently and cooperatively, demonstrating initiative and collaboration
Excellent time management, organizational skills and attention to detail; ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities
Proficiency in Windows, MS 365, Adobe Acrobat, and Adobe InDesign
Familiarity with copyediting, including MLA, Chicago and Vancouver styles, an asset
Excellent knowledge of English spelling, grammar, style, and usage; skill in proofreading
Familiarity with copyright and permission issues related to publishing.
Commitment to continuous learning
Values matter to you. You bring your whole self to work and you live our values of accountability, innovation, respect, and customer focus

About our Team:

The Publishing Division has a staff of over 50 full-time and contract employees and operates out of 800 Bay Street, Toronto.

With the publication of influential authors and award-winning research, as well as a continuing dedication to groundbreaking new scholarship and innovative texts, UTP has firmly established its reputation for excellence.

Books and journals published by UTP are written for intellectually curious readers, academics, researchers, students, and practitioners. Our authors come from around the world and we serve a global market.

About University of Toronto Press:

As the leading university press in Canada and one of the largest in North America, we acknowledge our role and responsibility in effecting positive change.

With this, we seek to continuously improve the diversity and representation of our publications and the clients we represent, as well as within the makeup of our organization.

With strong commitment from leadership, we are collectively bringing forward change across the organization, both within our company culture and in our publishing, distribution, and retail endeavours.

UTP operates with mutual trust, respect, and integrity as we strive to identify and remove barriers. We are committed to making UTP a great place to work by addressing and challenging systemic inequities.

Interested in applying?

Company

University of Toronto Press

Location

Downtown, Bay & College

Opening Date

Feb 16, 2023

Closing Date

Mar 17, 2023