Editorial Coordinator

Do you like working in publishing Industry

Are you interested in taking on the support coordinator role

About Our Team

Elsevier and the communities we support expand the possibilities of human progress. The Lancet team within our STMJ division is committed to advancing global health through rigorous, impactful research and thoughtful discourse. We bring together a diverse group of experts to disseminate critical findings and insights that inform policy, shape clinical practice, and improve patient outcomes. Our dynamic and forward-thinking team is at the forefront of medical publishing, driving progress and inspiring innovation across the healthcare spectrum.

About The Role

The Editorial Coordinator will play a critical role in ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and consistency of manuscripts accepted for publication across our high volume, ABP titles. This position involves supporting editors, authors and reviewers with administrative tasks, coordinating the final stages of manuscript review, verifying compliance with journal standards, and facilitating communication between authors, editors, and production teams. The coordinator ensures that all submission elements meet the journal's formatting, ethical, and reporting guidelines before publication.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities (pre-acceptance)

• Be a primary contact for members of the editorial team and assisting with editorial requests, including (but not limited to) maintaining our electronic submission database, assigning papers, releasing decisions, making changes to manuscripts, uploading documents and helping with reviewer tasks.
• Monitoring journal mailboxes which include answering enquiries from authors, editors, reviewers and the public. This will require awareness of the confidential nature of the peer review process.
• Administrative stakeholder's payments for the journals. Troubleshooting with payees and Elsevier payment department to ensure timely payment.
• Provide support with holiday and absence cover.

Key responsibilities (at acceptance)

Requirements

Work In a Way That Works For You

We promote a healthy work / life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working For You

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer :

About The Business

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. What you do every day will help advance science and healthcare to advance human progress.

Skills Required

Microsoft Word, Formatting