Senior Publishing Manager

2 weeks ago

Cape Town Northern Suburbs, South Africa Persona Staff Full time

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Publishing Supervisor to oversee daily manuscript post-acceptance production and publication activities for our client in the education sector.

The successful candidate will collaborate closely with authors, editors, and other stakeholders to address any editorial or production-related queries or issues, maintaining high-quality standards throughout the publication process.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Supervise a team of language editors, proofreaders and production staffing, assigning tasks, providing guidance, monitoring the workflow to ensure timely completion of tasks.
  • Ensure the edited and proofread manuscripts meet the standards in language, grammar, spelling, punctuation, clarity and adherence to the journal style guidelines.
  • Coordination of the editing and proofreading process for submitted manuscripts, assign tasks to editors and proofreaders, oversee revisions based on author feedback and recommendations.
  • Manage the galley proofing process, including reviewing typeset proofs for accuracy, consistency, formatting errors and adherence to journal specifications before final publication.
  • Oversee the full publication process including coordination with authors, reviewers, editors, and production teams to ensure accepted manuscripts progress through the production pipeline according to the publication schedule to ensure deadlines are met.
  • Develop and implement production schedules, ensuring timely publication of all content.
  • Identify opportunities to streamline language editing, proofreading and production workflow, implement processes.
  • Provide training and coaching for language editors, proofreaders and production staff to enhance their skills, knowledge and proficiency in scholarly publishing standards.
  • Quality control procedures, such as style guidance, consistency checks, quality assurance measures.
  • Collaborate with the editorial, production and publishing teams to ensure effective communication, coordination and alignment of goals.
  • Conduction of regular performance evaluations for the team, provide feedback on performance, and identity area of improvement or professional development.
  • Staff recruitment, selecting, orientating and communicating job expectations.
  • Achieve high levels of customer satisfaction through excellence in production editing, proofreading, and publishing quality manuscripts to the public and other departments.
  • Control and monitoring the budget is not applicable to this role.
  • Provide quality service by enforcing quality and customer service standards.
  • Confer and coordinate activities with other departments as needed.

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