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Job Title: Journals Editorial Assistant

Start Date: 04/02/2018

Closing Date: 31/01/2018

Duration: 5 months

Salary / Package: 27

Sector: Office

Branch Campus: Hamad bin Khalifa University , Doha

Basic salary range: 27 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 the management of journal submissions and publications using HBKU Press article submission and review systems

- 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 Journals Publisher.

Qualifications required:

- Good organisational and document management skills

- Good communication skills

- Strong 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 fast-paced 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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