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Nature Communicatio is the world’s leading multidisciplinary Open Access journal, publishing high-quality research from across the natural sciences. To help us to build on this success, we now have exciting opportunities for a Team Manager and a Locum Team Manager to each manage a physical sciences editorial team for the journal. The ideal candidates will have a PhD (or equivalent), and preferably postdoctoral experience in an area within physics, chemistry, geoscience or materials science.

Editorial experience is essential as the successful candidates will be respoible for a team of Nature Communicatio edito spread across our London, Shanghai and New York offices. A Team Manager should be able to demotrate a clear strategy for attracting the highest impact pape to the journal while euring that we continue to meet the needs of our edito, autho, referees and reade.

Reporting to the Chief Physical Sciences Editor, the successful candidates will work closely with the edito in their team on all aspects of the editorial process, and play an important role in determining the representation of their own field in the journal through the appropriate selection of manuscripts. This role will also entail significant liaison with the scientific community, the other Nature Communicatio teams, the Research Journal Chief Edito and the Editorial Advisory Panel.

This is a demanding and intellectually stimulating position. Broad scientific knowledge and training, excellent literary skills and a keen interest in the practice and communication of science are a prerequisite. The successful candidates must therefore have excellent communication and interpeonal skills. The salary and benefits will be competitive, reflecting the critical importance and respoibilities of this role.

Respoibilities:

Management and Development:

· Manage a subset of the physical sciences editorial staff at Nature Communicatio

· Organise the recruitment, training and support of manuscript edito within that team, in conjunction with the Chief Physical Sciences Editor.

· Liaise with the Chief Physical Sciences Editor and other Team Manage to maintain good editorial practice and editorial coistency across disciplines, following procedures determined by the Chief Physical Sciences Editor and the Executive Editor, Nature Communicatio.

Editorial:

· Select and reject manuscripts for publication within a given field, within the framework of the Nature Communicatio editorial policy and following procedures determined by the Chief Physical Sciences Editor and the Executive Editor, Nature Communicatio.

· Eure that manuscripts accepted for publication are traferred to production in an appropriate, complete state. Work with the Editorial Production and Web Production teams to eure the smooth processing of manuscripts and other material.

· Write content for the website, such as editor’s summaries.

· Devise and supply editorial content for special projects, such as supplements, as agreed with the Chief Physical Sciences Editor

· Attend conferences and meetings and visit research ititutio in your field with the aim of soliciting pape for Nature Communicatio and giving general advice about the most suitable Springer Nature journal for autho’ work. Such activities should prompt a brief written report for circulation to the editorial team and other relevant colleagues

Experience, skills and qualificatio

· A science graduate, with a PhD in a related discipline

· People management skills

· Strong interpeonal and communication skills

· Thorough knowledge of the scientific community and its needs

· Sound knowledge and interest in science in general

· Strong editorial experience at a Nature-quality research journal