Publishing Coordinator, UD Press

Major Responsibilities

• Marketing
• Manage multiple calendars
• Execute web and social media promotion
• Award applications, and conference materials and displays
• Identify and pursue additional marketing and publicity opportunities
• Travel to academic and professional conferences as a representative of the Press
• Liaise with authors and prospective authors
• Sell books
• Participate in outreach to regional institutions and potential partners about the Delaware History and Culture series
• Design basic marketing materials, such as flyers, advertisements, and web/social media graphics
• Editorial
• Assist in editorial review of manuscripts
• Prepare and perform final manuscript transmittals to production
• Triage proposals and manuscript submissions
• Consult with the Director on responses
• Write rejection letters to authors
• Cook up the review process, including finding and soliciting external readers, sending out manuscripts for review, and processing honorarium payments for readers
• Manage production of open access (OA) publications
• Edit and organize assets
• Populate the platform with explanatory text and metadata
• Edit Open Educational Resources (OERs)
• Metadata/Administration
• Serve as a liaison with the Press’s publishing partner on marketing- and metadata-related issues
• Manage administrative operations, including maintaining press records tracking manuscripts from submission to production
• Work with the Director to manage all book records in the title management database
• Create metadata for press titles
• Track incoming reviews
• Organize press editorial board meetings
• Take, transcribe, and disseminate meeting minutes
• Serve as a member of relevant Library, Museums and Press committees and working groups, as needed
• Provide functional supervision to student and part-time employees
• Abide by Press Code of Conduct

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in English, marketing/communications, or related field, with two years of related experience with print and web-based marketing, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Strong writing and editing skills
• Able to communicate effectively and diplomatically with colleagues and scholars of all levels
• Aptitude with social media and digital platforms, ability to learn digital tools quickly
• Able to meet deadlines, prioritize, and work on multiple projects simultaneously
• Able to work effectively both independently and collaboratively, demonstrating initiative, problem-solving skills, and accountability
• Commitment to fostering a diverse educational environment and workplace and an ability to work effectively with a diverse faculty, staff, and student population
• Strong copyediting skills, familiarity with style guides (CMOS preferred), and a firm grasp of rules of grammar and style, preferred
• Experience working for a publisher or for an academic journal and/or interest in a career in scholarly publishing, preferred
• Experience working in WordPress and desktop design software (e.g., InDesign, Adobe Photoshop), preferred