Peer Review Team Manager - 12 month FTC

Role Summary

What will you be doing? 

The Peer Review Team Manager manages, motivates and develops a large team to deliver a fair, inclusive and efficient peer review service across a portfolio of journals. The role is responsible for resourcing, for managing the peer review process and for driving the requirements of IOPP’s workflows to meet business needs. The Peer Review Team Manager helps deliver the peer review strategy, sponsoring cross-departmental projects and initiatives. They also manage a small number of titles within their portfolio. 

Key job accountabilities: 

• Building and managing, motivating and developing a large peer review portfolio team. 
• Managing and supporting the individual performance, development, training and recruitment of Editors and Associate Editors.  
• Taking overall responsibility for the portfolio to deliver a fair, inclusive and efficient peer review process that meets customer requirements. 
• Instilling fair and inclusive peer review practices across the team: peer review is conducted without bias, and follows a transparent process in a fair and ethical manner 
• Maintaining a focus on continuous improvement for peer review. 
  • Managing growth through process and operating efficiencies 
  • Demonstrating expertise in the peer review process, including reviewer selection, decision making on articles, efficient handling of papers at every stage. 
  • Working with external Editors, partners and Editorial Boards in support of the journal(s) and participating in Editorial Board meetings. 

About you: 

The successful applicants should demonstrate the following: 

Professional qualifications 

• Degree or PhD, preferably in a scientific subject

Knowledge & previous experience 

• STM Publishing and peer review experience 
• Experienced people manager, ideally leading and motivating a large team. 
• Experienced change manager/agent 

 Skills & behaviours 

• Excellent communication skills 
• Ability to track progress against KPIs 
• Ability to motivate a team to success 
• Collaborative approach to team management and working with peers. 

 We know it is unusual for someone to tick every box so, if you don’t meet all the criteria, but demonstrate most of the skills and experience we are looking for, and have the enthusiasm to work with us, go ahead and apply. 

We pride ourselves on being a flexible and inclusive employer, if you have a preference to work flexibly please do apply.

Who We Are: 

IOP Publishing is a society-owned scientific publisher, providing impact, recognition and value for the scientific community. As the publishing arm of the Institute of Physics, 100% of our profit goes towards public and scientific good. 

Why work with us at IOP Publishing: 

Purpose: We are a world leader in the development of electronic publishing for the scientific community - working in the interests of science and scientists, we aim to maximise the impact of the research we publish. 

Culture: We offer a truly international culture with offices in Europe, Asia and the US and our reach is global. Our culture is the perfect blend of dedicated and intelligent professionalism, informal, friendly collaboration and authenticity with a social conscience.  

Financial benefits:  a competitive salary starting from £40,500 (Band C) depending on experience, an excellent pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution), a discretionary annual bonus scheme and a range of other useful and cost-saving benefits available through our benefits platform. 

Health and Wellbeing: 33+ days holiday (including bank holidays), plus an extra day’s leave to use for a moment that matters to you, a 35-hour working week, life assurance, cycle to work scheme, dental insurance, health care cash plan, and a great positive working environment in our brand new office in central Bristol - modern airy and designed with all of our colleagues in mind – for work and social time. 

Flexibility: a flexible hybrid working environment to suit everyone’s needs-– we don’t need you in the office every day so we can consider applicants from further afield who can travel to Bristol at least once per quarter (any travel to the Bristol office is at the employees expense).  

And last but not least, did we mention that we are unique : IOP Publishing is central to the Institute of Physics, a not-for-profit society and we gift-aid all our profits to support science through the activities of the Institute.  

To apply, please submit your CV through our careers site. 

IOP Publishing is an equal opportunity employer. Our goal is to ensure that diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) are built into our identity in a way that is natural and sustainable, visible through the work we produce, our company branding, our professional networks and the communities we serve and support, which includes our employees, talent communities and candidates. We particularly welcome applicants from under-represented backgrounds. 

We make recruitment and workplace adjustments wherever we can, so please let us know if there’s anything that we can do to support you.   

Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for candidates. If however you already have the right to work in the UK or hold an eligible work permit or visa, we encourage you to apply for this position.