Jobs at BioMed Central
BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher which has pioneered the open access publishing model. We're looking for creative, motivated, highly talented individuals to join our challenging, fast-moving, unique, working environment in London and Liverpool.
We are always interested in hearing from individuals who have proven skills and experience that would suit them to a position at BioMed Central, and have many work placements available for students, graduates and those looking to gain experience in this exciting industry (further information) in either our London or Liverpool locations. Any enquiries will be treated in confidence.
Current vacancies
Editorial Administrator
Reference:BMC/EA
Location:London
Posted: August 2010
Apply: jobs@biomedcentral.com
BioMed Central are looking for an Editorial Administrator who will focus
on supporting editors, authors and reviewers to ensure timely peer
review of articles across our scientific journals. The successful
candidate will also be involved in all incoming communications and
follow up delay external contacts
Main Duties:
- Administrative contact for all referees
- Support referees in the use of our online forms
- Telephone referees to remind them of deadlines
- Administrative contact for authors
- Support authors in the use of our online forms
- Respond to general enquiries
- Logging of communications
Requirements:
- A degree or equivalent in a science background
- Highly organised
- Computer literate
- Excellent English language skills
Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting the job reference (BMC/EA/LIV) to: HR, BioMed Central Ltd, Floor 6, 236 Gray’s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HB, or by email to: jobs@biomedcentral.com.
BioMed Central Ltd is an Equal Opportunities Employer
Editorial Assistant
Reference:BMC/EAE
Location: London
Posted: August 2010
Apply: jobs@biomedcentral.com
Position Summary:
BMC Medicine is the flagship online medical journal of the BMC series
published by BioMed Central. BMC Medicine publishes open access original
research, commentary and review articles of outstanding quality, broad
interest and special importance, aimed at keeping researchers and
clinicians informed of the latest advances to affect the practice of
medicine.
BioMed Central is seeking an enthusiastic and well-organised graduate to
join its expanding editorial team as an Editorial Assistant for BMC
Medicine. The Editorial Assistant will stay close to the cutting edge of
scientific advances while developing a new career in a dynamic,
open-access publishing environment.
Responsibilities.
The Editorial Assistant, together with other members of the editorial
team, will identify and approach appropriate experts to peer review BMC
Medicine manuscripts.
Additional responsibilities will include:
- Manuscript database management
- Booking manuscript meetings and minute taking
- Administering the journal mailbox to ensure that all queries are responded to, including advocacy to referees and authors
- Writing occasional blog posts for articles of interest
- Liaising with other in-house editorial teams, production and marketing/social media teams.
Person specification.
The ideal candidate will:
- Have a degree of equivalent in a relevant discipline, a Masters qualification is an advantage
- Demonstrate a broad interest in biomedical research
- Have excellent organisational and interpersonal skills
Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting the job reference (BMC/EAE) to: HR, BioMed Central Ltd, Floor 6, 236 Gray’s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HB, or by email to: jobs@biomedcentral.com.
BioMed Central Ltd is an Equal Opportunities Employer
Journal Development Editor
Reference:BMC/JDE
Location: London
Posted: August 2010
Apply: jobs@biomedcentral.com
Position Summary:
The main purpose of the job will be to optimise the publishing service
and increase submissions for a set of journals within a specific
biomedical area, through the execution of journal development work and
by supporting our stakeholders. Communication is a key part of this
role.
Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will:
- Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with Editors-in-Chief, Handling Editors, and society contacts.
- Will work with Editors-in-Chief to prepare new journals for launch and to improve existing journals.
- Have close liaison with other internal departments and the ability to plan and implement tasks.
Person specification:
- A biomedical degree or equivalent
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong administrative and organisational skills, and attention to detail
- Computer literacy, with experience of MS Word, Excel, and Outlook
- Able to represent BioMed Central at external events
- Some international travel may be required
- Experience of communicating effectively with senior scientists would be an advantage
Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting the job reference (BMC/JDE) to: HR, BioMed Central Ltd, Floor 6, 236 Gray’s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HB, or by email to: jobs@biomedcentral.com.
BioMed Central Ltd is an Equal Opportunities Employer
Marketing Assistant
Reference:BMC/MA
Location: London
Posted: August 2010
Apply: jobs@biomedcentral.com
Position Summary
BioMed Central Ltd, is a leading online publisher of more than 200
biology and medical journals. A pioneer of the open access publishing
model, BioMed Central is committed to providing free and permanent
access to scientific research. In addition to publishing online
journals, the company offers a number of additional online subscription
services to assist the research community.
The Marketing Assistant will work on email, online and print marketing
campaigns across a portfolio of subscription journals. The Marketing
Assistant will also help to co-ordinate our attendance at conferences,
from booking exhibition stands and producing materials to arranging
shipping.
Responsibilities and Main Duties:
Marketing:
- Assisting with a variety of email and direct mail campaigns
- Updating and developing of print and banner advertising, print materials, conferences and sponsorships
- Generating lists: sourcing lists from internal databases and list management
- Co-ordinating email newsletters, print/online advertising and mailing schedules
- Sales team support, including maintaining marketing email templates, collating literature etc.
Conferences:
- Booking exhibition space, furniture, internet, electricity, carpet etc with exhibition and registration for exhibitors
- Help attendees to organise travel including: booking laptops and mobile phones for conference attendees, booking hotels and flights
- Preparing and packing materials for conference
- Liaising with exhibition contractor to arrange stand delivery/collection and shipments from warehouse
- Maintaining stock, including reordering stock where appropriate
- Maintaining conference pages on website
- Updating promotional materials (e.g. leaflets) with designer
- Pre- and post conference mailings as appropriate
- Ordering and sending of prizes for various competitions.
- Represent BioMed Central at conferences worldwide
Person Specification:
- Educated to degree level or equivalent, ideally with a scientific background
- Some professional experience, preferably in an office environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential
- Computer literacy and ability to learn new packages are essential
- Ability to prioritise and work under pressure
- Attention to detail
- Good project management skills are desirable
- Must be able to work to tight deadlines and react quickly to changing priorities
- Should be a self-starter and highly self-motivated
Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting the job reference (BMC/MA) to: HR, BioMed Central Ltd, Floor 6, 236 Gray’s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HB, or by email to: jobs@biomedcentral.com.
BioMed Central Ltd is an Equal Opportunities Employer
QA Tester
Reference:BMC/QAT
Location: London
Posted: July 2010
Apply: jobs@biomedcentral.com
Position Summary
BioMed Central Ltd are looking for a QA Tester to join our quality
assurance team. The QA Tester will be responsible for testing BioMed
Central's web-based applications and will be working alongside QAs and
developers in an agile team.
This position, reporting to the Test Team Leader, requires the ability
to think critically to define test cases and test software against its
acceptance criteria. The ideal candidate will be organized and
methodical with a pronounced interest in testing tools and techniques.
Main Duties:
- Execute test plans
- Participate in project steering groups and communicate with stakeholders and delivery teams
Skill & Qualities - Required:
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Experience of working in an agile development team
- Experience of testing web-based applications
- A strong numerate university qualification
Skill & Qualities - Highly Desirable:
- Experience of writing and maintaining suites of automated tests
- Knowledge of WebDriver and JBehave testing frameworks
- SQL
Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting the job reference (BMC/QAT) to: HR, BioMed Central Ltd, Floor 6, 236 Gray’s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HB, or by email to: jobs@biomedcentral.com.
BioMed Central Ltd is an Equal Opportunities Employer
Executive Editor
Reference:GM/EE
Location: London
Posted: July 2010
Apply: jobs@biomedcentral.com
BioMed Central is looking for an Executive Editor to drive the success of its recently launched journal, Genome Medicine. The role will be full time and based in
our offices in London, UK.
Reporting to the Editorial Director (Medicine), the Executive Editor will guide the journal's strategic development, and will be responsible for driving the journal's ambitious commissioning and advocacy programs, recruiting and refreshing the Editorial Board, establishing and maintaining journal thresholds and managing the editorial staff, The Executive Editor will be the public face of the journal. As such, regular travel will be required.
The ideal candidate will:
- Be a highly motivated, enthusiastic PhD or MD with a broad knowledge of genetics, genomics, and/or clinical medicine
- Possess experience in administering peer review, with experience as a scientific editor.
Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting the job reference (GM/EE) to: HR, BioMed Central Ltd, Floor 6, 236 Gray’s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HB, or by email to: jobs@biomedcentral.com.
BioMed Central Ltd is an Equal Opportunities Employer
Editorial Administrator
Reference:BMC/EA/LIV
Location:Liverpool
Posted: July 2010
Apply: jobs@biomedcentral.com
We are seeking a proactive individual with excellent English language
skills, attention to detail, computer literacy and strong organisational
skills to work on our scientific journals as Editorial Administrators,
located in our Liverpool office. A background in science, publishing or other relevant
experience would be advantageous, but not essential. Training will be
provided.
You will focus on supporting editors, authors and reviewers to ensure
timely peer review of articles across our scientific journals. You will
triage all incoming communications and follow up delayed external
contacts.
Main Duties:
- Administrative contact for all referees
- Support referees in the use of our online forms
- Telephone referees to remind them of deadlines
- Administrative contact for authors
- Support authors in the use of our online forms
- Respond to general enquiries
- Logging of communications
Requirements:
- Should be degree level educated or equivalent
- Excellent English language skills
- Highly organised
- Publishing and/or science background an advantage
- Computer literate
Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting the job reference (BMC/EA/LIV) to: HR, BioMed Central Ltd, Floor 6, 236 Gray’s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HB, or by email to: jobs@biomedcentral.com.
BioMed Central Ltd is an Equal Opportunities Employer
Part-time Managing Editor
Reference:BMC/ME
Location: London
Posted: June 2010
Apply: jobs@biomedcentral.com
BioMed Central, the leading open access publisher, is looking for a Managing Editor to join the London-based editorial team of their flagship journal BMC Biology. The successful applicant will work for half a day, five days a week, with some flexibility in the exact office hours.
Responsibilities:
- Tracking and scheduling all content, ensuring smooth flow of commissioned content
- Providing monthly highlights and updates, in consultation with editors
- Finding pictures for content listings and monthly featured images, in consultation with editors
- Organising occasional print issues
- Liaising with Production and Editorial Administration on timely and problem-free flow of research papers and commissioned articles through editorial and production processes
- Liaising with Web Management to maintain and update the website
- Dealing with comments posted on website, in consultation with editors
- Liaison with Marketing on banner and other ads on the website, and on promotional materials for conferences
- Posting blogs
Skills and personal qualities:
- Degree-level education in biomedical or related science
- High computer literacy; some familiarity with desktop publishing software would be an advantage
- High organisational ability
- Ability to communicate well with colleagues and outside contacts
- Conscientiousness and attention to detail
Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting the job reference (BMC/ME) to: HR, BioMed Central Ltd, Floor 6, 236 Gray’s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HB, or by email to: jobs@biomedcentral.com.
BioMed Central Ltd is an Equal Opportunities Employer
Journal Acquisitions Intern
Reference: BMC/JAI
Location: London
Posted: April 2010
Apply: jobs@biomedcentral.com
BioMed Central is looking for an enthusiastic intern who wishes to gain experience in scientific publishing to join its Journal Acquisitions team.
This internship will offer the successful applicant broad editorial experience including helping to assess the viability of new journal ideas and helping to develop pre-launch and recently launched journals. If an intern excels in performance and a position opens within the in-house team, a transition to a permanent role is possible.
The internship lasts for three months and is based in our London office. The salary is £15,000 p.a. pro rata for this position. The ideal candidate will be a life science graduate with an eye for detail and excellent communication skills. No editorial experience is necessary.
Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting the job reference (BMC/JAI) to: HR, BioMed Central Ltd, Floor 6, 236 Gray’s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HB, or by email to: jobs@biomedcentral.com
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