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  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Red & Yellow Creative School of Business Full-time

    Red & Yellow Creative School of Business is South Africa’s leading authority in digital marketing education. We have the mission to unlock creative thinking, to build brilliant careers and organizations using Commercial Logic and Creative Magic. Our mandate, as educators, is to prepare students for career success in the future, not the past. This...


  • za Persona Staff Full-time

    Persona Staff is seeking a detail-oriented editorial professional to manage a portfolio of journals and drive efficient production workflows. You will oversee schedules, metadata, and budgets to ensure timely, high-quality publications.You will review copyedited manuscripts for style and accuracy, ensure author corrections are implemented, and collaborate...


  • gauteng, South Africa Persona Staff Full-time

    Persona Staff is seeking a detail-oriented editorial professional to manage a portfolio of journals and drive efficient production workflows. You will oversee schedules, metadata, and budgets to ensure timely, high-quality publications. You will review copyedited manuscripts for style and accuracy, ensure author corrections are implemented, and collaborate...


  • Remote, wes kaap, South Africa Persona Staff Full-time R 320,000 Contract

    Persona Staff is seeking a detail-oriented editorial professional to manage a portfolio of journals and drive efficient production workflows. You will oversee schedules, metadata, and budgets to ensure timely, high-quality publications. You will review copyedited manuscripts for style and accuracy, ensure author corrections are implemented, and collaborate...


  • Wes-Kaap, South Africa Persona Staff Full-time R 240,000 - R 320,000 Contract

    Persona Staff is seeking a detail-oriented editorial professional to manage a portfolio of journals and drive efficient production workflows. You will oversee schedules, metadata, and budgets to ensure timely, high-quality publications.You will review copyedited manuscripts for style and accuracy, ensure author corrections are implemented, and collaborate...

  • Chief Editor

    4 days ago


    Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Thusa Batho Labour Solutions Full-time

    The Chief Editor provides overall academic and strategic leadership for the Bulletin and is responsible for: • Setting the strategic, editorial, and scholarly direction of the journal• Managing and overseeing the peer-review process for all submissions• Ensuring the academic quality, integrity, and ethical standards of the journal• Working closely...


  • gauteng, South Africa Persona Staff Full-time

    Responsibilities Develop and implement journal commissioning and development plans for a portfolio of open access journal. Build strong relationships with Editors-in-Chief, Editorial Boards, society partners, and other academic stakeholder. Identify target research groups, and emerging subject areas to support journal growth. Drive initiatives to increase...


  • Cape Town, South Africa Persona Staff Full-time

    Responsibilities: - Develop and implement journal commissioning and development plans for a portfolio of open access journal. - Build strong relationships with Editors-in-Chief, Editorial Boards, society partners, and other academic stakeholder. - Identify target research groups, and emerging subject areas to support journal growth. - Drive initiatives to...


  • Remote, wes kaap, South Africa Persona Staff Full-time R 446,400 Contract

    Responsibilities Develop and implement journal commissioning and development plans for a portfolio of open access journal. Build strong relationships with Editors-in-Chief, Editorial Boards, society partners, and other academic stakeholder. Identify target research groups, and emerging subject areas to support journal growth. Drive initiatives to...


  • Wes-Kaap, South Africa Persona Staff Full-time R 279,000 - R 446,400 Contract

    Responsibilities Develop and implement journal commissioning and development plans for a portfolio of open access journal. Build strong relationships with Editors-in-Chief, Editorial Boards, society partners, and other academic stakeholder. Identify target research groups, and emerging subject areas to support journal growth. Drive initiatives to increase...


  • Remote, wes kaap, South Africa Persona Staff Full-time R 320,000 Contract

    Responsibilities: Manage a portfolio of journal titles, ensuring that they run on optimised workflows and meet department publication metrics. Maintain article and issue schedules, metadata, and page budgets, and uphold quality standards throughout the publication process. Complete production checks by assessing the production quality of incoming...


  • gauteng, South Africa Persona Staff Full-time

    Responsibilities: Manage a portfolio of journal titles, ensuring that they run on optimised workflows and meet department publication metrics. Maintain article and issue schedules, metadata, and page budgets, and uphold quality standards throughout the publication process. Complete production checks by assessing the production quality of incoming...


  • za Persona Staff Full-time

    Responsibilities:Manage a portfolio of journal titles, ensuring that they run on optimised workflows and meet department publication metrics.Maintain article and issue schedules, metadata, and page budgets, and uphold quality standards throughout the publication process.Complete production checks by assessing the production quality of incoming manuscripts;...


  • durbanville, western cape, South Africa AOSIS Full-time R 620,000 Contract

    About The Role AOSIS is looking for a commercially aware, relationship-driven Journals Commissioning and Development Editor to help grow and strengthen our portfolio of scholarly journals. About The Role AOSIS is looking for a commercially aware, relationship-driven Journals Commissioning and Development Editor to help grow and strengthen our portfolio of...


  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Persona Staff cc Full-time

    Journals Production Editor / CoordinatorReference: CPT004446-H-1Our client in the educational industry has a vacancy for a Journals Production Editor / Coordinator to join their scholarly publishing team. The Journals Production Editor / Coordinator manages written texts through the publishing production process. You will be responsible for assessing the...


  • gauteng, South Africa Aosis Full-time

    We are seeking a highly organised and detail‑oriented Junior Production Coordinator/Editor (Journals Publishing) to join our publishing team. This role is ideal for a recent graduate or early‑career publishing professional who enjoys working with complex workflows, maintaining high quality standards, and coordinating multiple stakeholders. The Junior...


  • durbanville, western cape, South Africa AOSIS Full-time R 240,000 Contract

    About The Role We are seeking a highly organised and detail-oriented Junior Production Coordinator/Editor (Journals Publishing) to join our publishing team. This role is ideal for a recent graduate or early-career publishing professional who enjoys working with complex workflows, maintaining high quality standards, and coordinating multiple stakeholders. The...


  • Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Thusa Batho Labour Solutions Full-time

    Thusa Batho Labour Solutions seeks a Chief Editor in Pretoria, South Africa. This role involves setting the strategic and editorial direction of a journal, managing the peer-review process, and promoting academic integrity.The ideal candidate will hold a PhD or equivalent, with a strong record in scholarly publications and experience in editorial leadership....


  • Mafikeng - Capital City, South Africa North-West University Full-time

    IntroductionNORTH-WEST UNIVERSITY (MAHIKENG CAMPUS) FACULTY OF HUMANITIES SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES POSITION NUMBER: M000478 POSITION: EDITOR-IN-CHIEF PEROMNES GRADE: P6 EMPLOYMENT TYPE: FIXED-TERM APPOINTMENTDuties & ResponsibilitiesPURPOSE OF THE POSITION:This position is initiated by Setswana National Unit (SEFALA) in collaboration with North West University....


  • Wes-Kaap, South Africa Aosis Full-time R 180,000 - R 300,000 Contract

    We are seeking a highly organised and detail‑oriented Junior Production Coordinator/Editor (Journals Publishing) to join our publishing team. This role is ideal for a recent graduate or early‑career publishing professional who enjoys working with complex workflows, maintaining high quality standards, and coordinating multiple stakeholders. The Junior...