E-subeditor job position at Nature
Maxine Clarke
Tuesday, 27 January 2009 09:57 UTC
Nature, the international journal of science, has a vacancy for an E-subeditor.
The successful candidate will work in a small team of subeditors in the Nature London office. The main duty consists of ensuring that the full-text version of the scientific research articles on the journal’s website is correct each week. Other duties consist of subediting and proofreading scientific research manuscripts. This position could be a suitable entry position to an editing career for candidates who have strong skills as outlined here.
Essential qualifications:
-Good degree in one of the basic sciences and good A levels (or equivalent high-school qualification) in the other basic sciences.
-Good all-round knowledge of and enthusiasm for scientific research across the disciplines.
-Very high standards of accuracy and good attention to detail.
-Excellent knowledge of English language, grammar, and common scientific terminologies. Candidates who do not show evidence of these skills in their applications will not be considered for interview.
The ideal candidate, in addition to these qualifications, will have broad general knowledge of the Internet and some of the ways in which scientists use it. Prior professional editing experience and in-depth web production skills are not necessary, but general knowledge of web technology, for example HTML, would be useful. The successful candidate must be able to communicate effectively and promptly with the journal’s web production department, within the editorial team, and also on occasion to external suppliers.
We advise candidates to look at the journal’s website , in particular the Articles and Letters, before applying for the position.
Contact Details:
Applications should include a c.v.; a short paragraph of the key reasons for suitability for the position described above; names and contact details of two referees; details of current salary and notice period; full address, phone and email details; and a confirmation of the right to work in the UK. They should be sent to Denise Pitter, quoting reference number NPG/009/09 at londonrecruitment@macmillan.co.uk. They can be copied to me (m.clarke@nature.com) but in view of the likely volume of applications I can undertake to look only at those applications which are complete.
Closing Date: February 20, 2009
Updated 27 January 2009 09:59 UTC
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Just for completion, there are 2 open copy editor positions at Nature research journals as well (1 at Nature Photonics and 1 at Nature Materials/Physics). Locations are either London or Tokyo!
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Thanks, Joerg. I was just visiting to add this info, having seen your comment at Friend Feed, and I see you got here first! These sub/copyediting roles are all very good ways to make a transition from science research into science publishing.
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Hi Maxine
I have an honours degree in Botany, a bachelors and masters degree in journalism and am currently working as a web production journaist. I also have science reporting and writing experience, have done online subbing and uploading work, building and editing web fronts using html and content management system etc. I am very keen to get into a science editing and publishing role. However, my current work is in a more general news environment rather than speciality science. Will this be considered as a negative point? -
Dear Sajid
This job (e-subeditor) is firmly a subediting role, there is no writing involved. You would be qualified to apply for this role, but it is not usual for people with journalism qualifications and ambitions to want this kind of very detailed job in which The main duty consists of ensuring that the full-text version of the scientific research articles on the journal’s website is correct each week. In my experience, people tend to like either being editors or writers, but usually not both. Anyway, if you are interested, please do apply.
Best wishes
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Thanks Maxine. I am certainly interested and will apply. Thanks again.
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Hi Maxine
When do applicants get to know whether they have been shortlisted for an interview? -
Let’s stay on-topic shall we? This forum is for people to ask general questions of the Nature journal editors – not for the details of individual job applications.
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My apologies.
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