Description:
Responsibilities:Achieve high levels of customer satisfaction through excellence in production editing, proofreading, and publishing quality manuscripts to the public and other departments. Facilitate staff recruitment, selecting, orienting, communicating job expectations, training employees, and developing personal growth opportunities for career development. Accomplish staff job results by coaching, counselling, and disciplining employees. Plan, monitor, appraise job results, provide constructive feedback, and implement prevention strategies. Demonstrate a team culture and interdisciplinary atmosphere of trust where contributions are valued, and consensus is fostered. Accomplish department objectives by determining staffing levels, supervising team members, assigning workload, and organizing and monitoring manuscript processes. Implement and enforce systems, policies, and procedures and implement corrective actions. Maintain a safe and healthy work environment by establishing and enforcing organization standards and adhering to regulations. Complete operations by developing schedules, assigning, and monitoring work, gathering resources, implementing productivity standards, resolving operations problems, maintaining reference manuals, and implementing new procedures. Control budget information allocated to the team, including staffing, equipment, and software, and implement corrective actions. Provide quality service by enforcing quality and customer service standards. Interface with customers to answer questions or solve problems. Maintain manuscript records, document necessary information, and utilize reports to project manuscript statuses. Identify areas of improvement and establish innovative or adjust existing work procedures and practices. Proofread manuscripts for spelling, grammar, punctuation, syntax, usage, consistency, and voice, inspect and cross-check references and data, and implement corrective actions to ensure consistency in manuscript output. Confer and coordinate activities with other departments. Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed. Requirements:
SUPERVISORY SKILLS:
Supervise a team of language editors, proofreaders and production staffing, assigning tasks, providing guidance, monitoring the workflow to ensure a timely completion of tasks. Ensure the edited and proofread manuscripts meet the standards in language, grammar, spelling, punctuation, clarity and adherence to the journal style guidelines. Coordination of the editing and proofreading process for the submitted manuscripts, assign tasks to editors and proofreaders, oversee revisions based on author feedback and recommendations. Manage the galley proofing process, including reviewing typese
07 Mar 2025;
from:
gumtree.co.za