Locum Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Climate Change

Job Title: Locum Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Climate Change
Location: London or Shanghai. (Hybrid Working Model)
Fixed-term position (6 months)
Application Deadline: Mon 15th January 2024
About the Role
Nature Climate Change is a multi-disciplinary journal publishing high-quality research related to all aspects of Climate Change. The journal’s scope includes both the natural and social sciences and economics.
We now have an opening to join our team as a Locum Associate or Senior Editor for a six-month contract. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the content of the journal. The candidate must have a PhD, and preferably postdoctoral experience, with a strong research record in an area of environmental research, for example biogeochemistry, hydrology, environmental science or agriculture/land use studies, though strong candidates with other related expertise will be considered. The ideal candidate will have demonstrably broad interest within Climate Change research, across geographical and temporal scales.
The Locum Associate/Senior Editor role is ideal for researchers who are interested in gaining editorial experience. This role may be what you are looking for if you feel that an academic career does not satisfy your desire to learn about a wide variety of scientific topics and you are interested in helping to bring exciting science to a global audience while having a positive impact on the peer review process.
Our professional editors make the final decision on what we publish. The successful applicant will play an important role in determining the representation of biogeochemistry, climate impacts, adaptation, and global environmental change content in the journal. They will work closely with the other editors on the on-going development of Nature Climate Change and all aspects of the editorial process, including manuscript selection, commissioning, and editing of Comments, Perspectives, Reviews and News & Views, and writing for the journal. A key aspect of the job is liaising with the academic community through institutional visits and international conferences, as well as engaging with stakeholders.
This is a demanding and intellectually stimulating position. Broad scientific knowledge and training, excellent literary skills, the ability to absorb new areas of research, and a keen interest in the practice and communication of research are prerequisites.
Role Responsibilities:
Manuscripts
• Selecting and rejecting manuscripts for publication, within the framework of current editorial policy.
• Where agreed, taking responsibility for the development of a broad subject area.
• Where agreed, defining topics for Comment, Perspective and Review Articles, commissioning as well as assessing proposals from potential authors of such articles, handling the resulting manuscripts and improving them via effective editing.
• Inviting other content such as News & Views and Research Briefings, and editing to a high standard
• Contributing written pieces – Research Highlights, editorials – as agreed
Outreach
• Liaising with the academic and practitioner communities through meetings, in person and virtual, as well as conference and workshop attendance
Experience, Skills & Qualifications:
• PhD.
• Postdoctoral experience preferred but not required.
• Editorial experience is not required, although applicants with significant editorial experience are encouraged to apply and will potentially be considered for Senior Editor positions.
Applicants should include a CV, a 150–200-word Research Highlight of a recent Climate Change study (published in a journal other than Nature Climate Change) that they found exciting, and a cover letter explaining their interest in the post and any prior editorial experience.
We encourage early applications as they will be reviewed as received.

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