Open Access Journals Managing Editor
The University of North Carolina Press seeks an energetic, process-minded, and detail-oriented candidate for the position of Open Access Journals Managing Editor (OA Journals ME). The OA Journals ME is a two-year limited full-time position created to support the early-stage development of two open-access initiatives: the Academic Research Community (ARC) Alliance and the Partnership for Open Publishing (POP). The OA Journals ME will work with various stakeholders from the Press, libraries across the UNC System of universities, and open-access journals based at UNC System campuses. The position reports to the UNCP Journals Manager.
The position offers the qualified candidate the opportunity to help develop new open-access business models while gaining comprehensive experience and knowledge in academic journals publishing. This position is funded for two years; employment in this or any other position at the Press beyond that term may be possible but is not guaranteed.
Background in publishing is not required, but familiarity with workflows of academic publications and trends in the academic publishing industry is preferred. Experience coordinating the work of multiple stakeholders effectively and diplomatically is required.
To Apply:Provide a cover letter, resume, salary requirement and contact information for three professional references to Adele Sommerville, Chief Human Resources Officer at asommerville@uncpress.org. The review of applications will continue until the position is filled. Only finalists will be contacted.
About UNC Press:
UNC Press is a nonprofit publisher of both scholarly and general interest books and journals, affiliated with the University of North Carolina System. From its early days, the Press adopted the principle that its books should not merely observe but seek to understand, explain, and thereby improve our world. In keeping with that principle, UNC Press became the first scholarly publisher to develop an ongoing program of books by and about African Americans, beginning in the late 1920s, and was at the vanguard of the interdisciplinary field of gender and women’s studies in the 1970s. In addition to works on global history, religion, politics, and culture, the Press pioneered one of the earliest and strongest regional publishing programs in the country, publishing books on the people, culture, and environment of the South, cultivating a vital legacy for the future. The Press is also a leading publisher of works of Indigenous studies and histories of the carceral state, among other subjects that engage with pressing issues of social concern. The Press’s offices are located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in the thriving Research Triangle region of North Carolina. To learn more about the Press, visit www.uncpress.org/about.
UNC Press values equity in word and deed. The work we publish reflects a commitment to engaging diverse voices and experiences and bringing them to the widest possible audience. Similarly, we value a workplace that welcomes different perspectives to enhance the quality of our decision making as we carry out our work. We are strategically engaged in creating and enhancing policies and practices that will build upon our past efforts to attract, retain, and develop a staff that is diverse along many dimensions.
About the OA Initiatives:
The ARC Alliance (https://arc-alliance.unc.edu/ ) is a community of like-minded scholars supportive of a non-profit, altruistic, high-quality scholarly publishing alternative to standard publishing models.
The Partnership for Open Publishing (https://uncpress.org/partnership-for-open-publishing/) is a publishing model and service offering developed by the University of North Carolina Press to advance OA scholarship across the statewide UNC System.
About the UNC System:
The UNC System is a public university system made up of 16 universities and the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, the nation’s first public residential high school for gifted students.
For 136 years, the only campus of the University of North Carolina was at Chapel Hill. Chartered in 1789 by the North Carolina General Assembly, UNC-Chapel Hill was the first public university in the United States. By 1877, the General Assembly had begun sponsoring additional institutions of higher education, broadening access for all North Carolinians. Five universities were historically Black institutions, and another was founded to serve American Indians. Some opened as high schools. Several were teaching colleges or women’s colleges. Others emphasized technology or agriculture. One was established as a school for performing artists.
Between 1931 and 1969, the System grew from three, to four, to six universities. Then, in 1971, North Carolina’s remaining 10 public senior institutions were brought into the fold to create what we now call the University of North Carolina System.
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