In-house Senior Editor
Location: London
The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health is part of The Lancet’s family of world-renowned medical journals committed to publishing the best science for better lives. We are an international team, handling high‑quality research, reviews, and commentaries to drive thought leadership across all aspects of child and adolescent health and wellbeing. We build solid relationships with research communities to ensure we offer exciting, interesting, and thought‑provoking content.
As an in-house Senior Editor, you will oversee the creation and publication of original material for our online and print journal. You will take ownership of overseeing submissions and performing quality peer review to ensure we publish high‑quality content. You will build global relationships with experts in the community to disseminate and discuss practice‑changing results from the field.
Responsibilities
- Managing peer review of high‑quality research papers, and commissioning authors to ensure the successful production of new and engaging articles
- Developing and maintaining relationships with our global neonatal, paediatric, and adolescent health communities to attract high‑quality research for the journal
- Attending conferences and events to represent the journal, keeping up to date with current developments in neonatal, paediatric, and adolescent health, and identifying potential topics of interest
- Managing the Reflections section of the journal, which publishes thought‑provoking essays and features on global child and adolescent health issues
- Writing editorials and other content, and recording podcasts for the journal as required
- Helping develop new initiatives for future development of the journal
Requirements
- A Medical Degree in a relevant discipline or a PhD in a related subject field with postdoctoral research experience
- Extensive editorial experience
- Be able to demonstrate thorough knowledge of biological and medical sciences, and broader social issues pertaining to child and adolescent health
- The ability to engage, influence, and build relationships with external stakeholders, including medical and research professionals, a range of internal teams, and members of the media
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to work efficiently to demanding press deadlines
- Excellent command of the English language and the ability to write in an engaging and interesting manner
- Proficient with IT systems including MS Office
Benefits
- Working remotely from home and at our office in a hybrid working style
- Working flexible hours – flexing the times you work in the day
- Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
- Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
- Wellbeing programs
- Life assurance
- Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
- Long service awards
- Save As You Earn share option scheme
- Travel Season ticket loan
- Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
- Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
- RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
- Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
- Access to extensive learning and development resources
- Access to employee discounts via Perks at Work
We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
This role is included in the pay bargaining unit represented by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ).
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