Managing Editor, Faculty Journals

Department

Law Communications

About the Department

The University of Chicago Law School occupies a unique niche among this country's premier law schools. Located on a residential campus in one of America's great cities, UChicago Law offers a rigorous and interdisciplinary professional education that blends the study of law with the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences.

Students, faculty, and staff form a small, tightly knit community devoted to the life of the mind.

The Communications Office is responsible for promoting the Law School in every way, including all print and digital communications of the Law School.

The Communications Office produces several print publications, manages the digital and social media presence of the Law School, handles event communications and email templates, works with digital and print signage, and collaborates with faculty and staff around the Law School on public relations, media relations, and issues management.

Job Summary

The Managing Editor, Faculty Journals leads the editorial, review, and production processes for the Law School’s two faculty journals, the Journal of Legal Studies and the Journal of Law and Economics.

Reporting to the Law School’s Assistant Dean for Communications, this position works closely with the journals’ faculty editors in all aspects of peer review, including maintaining databases and managing workflow.

The Managing Editor serves as the liaison between editors and authors, editors and reviewers, Law School and Graduate School of Business editors and Law and Economics program directors, and the University of Chicago Press.

The position also supervises a staff Production Manager and freelance copyeditors and typesetters.

Responsibilities

For regular and supplement issues of the journals, prepares manuscripts for publication, including screening electronic manuscript files for completeness and enforcing adherence to publication guidelines, working with authors to obtain usable figures, managing freelance copyeditors, proofreading, administering publication agreements and reprint orders, and coordinating supplement billing.

Maintains the journals’ style sheets (including periodic redesigns) and negotiates editorial changes with authors.

Oversees the peer review process, including extensive author and reviewer correspondence, event tracking, paying honoraria, and peer review performance reporting.

Manages editorial office operations, including issue preparation, copyediting, production, copyright and grants of permission, and selected marketing efforts, including coordination of rate setting.

Provides reports to the editors detailing submissions statistics, editor and reviewer performance, and general trends in submission rates and turnaround times.

Conducts long-term planning for all financial, style, and design aspects of the journals.

Supports the journals’ marketing efforts.

Prepares journals’ budgets and balance sheets and tracks expenses in University financial systems.

Maintains relationships with outside vendors.

Works with minimal guidance to edit complex manuscripts and other forms of copy for grammar, punctuation, spelling, style, form, sentence structure, clarity, consistency and accuracy.

Creates online and / or print versions of publications. Performs quality control checking at all stages of production for all written material in an editorial group.

Provides expertise to designing and maintaining editing schedules and managing the proofreading, review, and correction of page proofs and additional proof stages.

Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

Education :

Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.

Work Experience :

Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 7+ years of work experience in a related job discipline.

Certifications :

Preferred Qualifications

Experience :

Knowledge of and experience with legal publications is strongly preferred.

Academic publishing experience is strongly preferred.

Journal management experience is strongly preferred.

5 years’ experience copy editing scholarly books and journals is strongly preferred.

Experience working with faculty editors and authors is strongly preferred.

Preferred Competencies

Knowledge of computers, in particular, electronic editing and typesetting tools, multiple author submission formats, word processing, spreadsheets, and relational databases.

Thorough knowledge of the Chicago Manual of Style.

Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Ability to work independently and demonstrate initiative while balancing multiple priorities.

Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, tact, and ability to responsibly handle confidential matters.

Application Documents

Resume / CV (required)

Cover Letter (preferred)

When applying, the document(s) MUST be uploaded via the My Experience page, in the section titled Application Documents of the application.

Job Family

Communications

Role Impact

Individual Contributor

FLSA Status

Exempt

Pay Frequency

Monthly

Scheduled Weekly Hours

37.5

Benefits Eligible

Drug Test Required

Health Screen Required

Motor Vehicle Record Inquiry Required

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