Content Editor

About the Role:

SSRN is Elsevier’s preprint server, working with over 1,200 Elsevier journals to offer submitting authors the option to preprint their research. Authors may also submit directly to SSRN through a journal‑independent de novo route.

One of SSRN’s recent successes has been strong growth in the clinical and medical disciplines, supported by notable partnerships such as Preprints with The Lancet and Cell Press journals. This growth coincides with the emergence of new funder policies that require authors to preprint their work and meet specific compliance criteria.

In this role, you will oversee the smooth operation of the medical queues, ensuring turnaround times are met and that all required reporting standards—including ethical information—are satisfied. You will also be responsible for ensuring that no potentially harmful preprints are posted. Occasional managerial oversight will be provided for complex situations and cases. Working closely with the Content Director, identify gaps in contractor coverage so that additional resources can be recruited, maintaining queue performance and health. In addition, you will deliver reporting on growth within the medical area and contribute to projects that promote excellence in medical preprinting.

• Responsibilities:

• Oversee the smooth running of the medical queues such that turnaround times are met

• Prevent the posting of medical preprints that may cause harm and ensure that appropriate ethics, funding and COIs are provided.

• Work with journal partners such as Preprints with The Lancet to support their editorial policies as well as working on any reporting and / or projects.

• Liaise with the Content Director over funders and their policies and how it affects SSRN policies and liaising on policy changes as needed.

• Liaise with the Production and Product teams over changes in policies and approaches for identifying bad content in the medical and life science disciplines

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Liaise with the Production and Product teams over changes in policies and approaches for identifying bad content in the medical and life science disciplines

• Self- Starter and happy working independently or as part of a team

• Able to understand and advocate for the need of authors and readers.

• Strong analytical, organizational and prioritization skills

• Ability to work methodically, problem-solving and fact-checking

• Preferred understanding of preprint submission workflows. Be able to work with operations and production to accomplish shared goals.

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