Journal Coordinator/Editorial Manager-Team Lead

Role Summary

Lead a team of Journal Coordinators to run end-to-end scholarly publishing workflowssubmissions, peer review, production, and issue releasewhile upholding editorial ethics, timelines, and author experience.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership

• Manage, coach, and allocate work for a 5-10 member coordinator team.
• Set SOPs, SLAs, and QA checks; run weekly stand-ups and monthly performance reviews.
• Train new hires on systems, style guides, and publication ethics.

Editorial Operations

• Oversee submission triage, desk screening, and reviewer/editor assignments.
• Monitor peer-review turnaround; chase reviewers/editors and remove bottlenecks.
• Plan issues/special issues with Editors-in-Chief and Guest Editors; maintain publication calendars.
• Coordinate copyediting, typesetting, proofs, and final sign-off; ensure on-time issue release.

Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• Track KPIs and produce weekly/monthly dashboards (submission volumes, decision times, acceptance rates, on-time release).
• Analyze bottlenecks and run process improvements/A-B experiments to reduce TAT.

Must-Have Qualifications

• 3-5

  years

  in academic publishing/journal operations with

  1+ years

  leading a team.
• Strong command of peer-review workflows, production stages, and editorial ethics
• Excellent written communication and stakeholder management.
• Data comfort: Excel/Google Sheets; basic dashboards (Looker Studio/Power BI) for KPI reporting.

Education

Bachelors/Master’s in Life Sciences, English/Communications, or related field (or equivalent publishing experience).