Editorial Engagement Support Assistant - 6 Months FTC

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Job Title: Editorial Engagement Support Assistant

• Data Migration

• 6 months (Fixed term Contract)

Location: Pune

About the Brand

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About the Role

Springer Nature works with thousands of external academic editors to run our journals. These editors are a key driving force for strong submissions and journal growth, ensuring that rigorous and timely peer review of new manuscripts takes place. The Editorial Engagement Support Assistant (EESA) is responsible for providing an exceptional level of support to these editors. The EESA acts as a first point of contact for incoming queries to the editor support inbox, and ensures that new editors receive the best possible experience when joining the editorial board of our journals:

• The EESA handles requests assigned to them in the editor support inbox - the primary point of contact for internal and external Springer Nature editors. The ESA supports the Editor Support Specialist (EESS) to resolve these queries and to ensure the data of the editors is accurate and up to date.

• Working with the EESS, the EESA supports a timely and efficient editor on- and offboarding process, including follow-up requests, contracting, providing editors with access to relevant systems and maintaining editor information in the related databases and processing payment requests The EESA also manages internal editors' requests related to maintenance of Editorial Board Member data and access to submission- and other relevant systems.

• Working across our entire portfolio of journals, the EESA supports our editors throughout their time working with us so that they can perform their role to the required standards.

Roles Responsibilities

1.New Editorial Board Members (EBMs) experience: Supporting EBMs through the onboarding process so that they are fully equipped to perform their roles. Responsibilities include:

• Supporting the editor invitation process

• Creating editor contracts

• Ensuring editorial board members have access to all relevant systems.

• Keeping EBM data accurate and up to date, in our databases and across the journal homepages

• Working together with other administrative teams, for example our Journal Editorial Office EO) and the SNAPP support team support frictionless access to all relevant systems

• Serving as test users for new systems and workflows related to EBM data maintenance

• Providing EBM certificates

• Handling Editor payment requests

2.Editorial Board Refinement: Supporting the Editorial Engagement Support Specialist with the Editorial Board refinement process and analysis of the related data

• Supporting Editorial Board Refinement related mailings, and requests

• Analyzing the related Editor survey

3.Customer Service: Processing requests from internal and external editors via the editor support inbox.

• Owning all requests assigned to them by the Editor Support Specialist Coordinator, following through to completion.

• Troubleshooting systems and technical issues

• Executing APC Token requests and updating relevant databases/systems

• Providing EBM certificates

Educational Qualification: Educated to degree level or equivalent

Years of Experience: 6 months to 2.5 years (Fixed term Contract)

Place of Work: 1201/1301, Building No. 5 (R3), Gera Commerzone, Kharadi, Pune (Working in Hybrid Model) Skills

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skill

• Strong organisational skills, with attention to detail

• Able to see tasks through to completion, working to (often competing) deadlines

• Actively involved in achieving team objectives. Works cooperatively and flexibly with other members of the team

• Problem solving

• A high level of computer literacy - understands common software (e.g. Microsoft Office suite) and gains new software skills quickly.

• Has a customer-focused mindset

Desired

• Value Diversity(Respects, values and adapts to diversity)
• Drive for Results(Shows relentless focus on end results)
• Collaboration & Teamwork(Promotes cooperation & teamwork to achieve common outcomes)

Please Note- Please submit the CV if interested to join us on 6 months Fixed term contract.

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