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Job Title: Journals Editorial Assistant

Start Date: 14/04/2017

Closing Date: 06/04/2017

Duration: 32

Salary / Package: 32

Sector: Others

Branch Campus: Hamad bin Khalifa University , Doha

Basic salary range: 32 QR/Hour

Job Type: Permanent part-time

Job description:

 

 

• Support editorial staff in the administration of the commissioning, planning and production of journals publications

• Support editorial staff in management of journal submissions and publications using HBKU Press article submission and review servers.

• Maintaining contact with reviewers, authors, editors and contributors and tracking progress of publishing projects

• Liaising with Production team members to ensure internal systems and platforms are correctly updated and to ensure all accepted research and commissioned content is published on schedule.

• Coordinating with HBKU Press partners for content translations and copyediting/proofreading

• Other general administrative tasks as appointed by Head of Academic and Journals.

 

 

 

 

 

Qualifications required:

 

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  Good organisational and document management skills

• Good communication skills

• Good IT skills: Experience of working in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and Outlook; Knowledge of basic HTML coding desirable

• Good analytical and report writing abilities

• Knowledge of Arabic language desirable

• A team player, working in a highly international environment

• A thoughtful, careful approach, with a good eye for detail

• A familiarity with the publishing industry is desirable but not essential

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