The UK’s leading Egyptological organisation, the Egypt Exploration Society, is looking for an enthusiastic and well-organised Publications Manager to play a pivotal role within the team.
You will be an integral member of the London office staff, managing the Society’s print and online publications, overseeing the commissioning and peer review process, editing and typesetting content and ensuring publication on schedule and within budget, and working with the Director to steer their future direction. You will work closely with authors and editors to ensure that content is produced to a high quality and in a timely manner.
This is an excellent opportunity to join an organisation with a rich history which has recently undergone a series of changes to prepare it for the challenges ahead. The successful candidate will be working within a friendly, passionate and energetic small team; they therefore must be a team player. They will enjoy a busy office environment and a varied and challenging working day, and will need to have experience of academic and production editing, preferably for an academic or public-facing membership organisation. A postgraduate degree in Egyptology or archaeology or a relevant field is also highly desirable. You will, ideally, be familiar with typesetting software such as Adobe InDesign and will have experience of the print production process. A background in managing a website and/or producing content for the web, and knowledge of written French and German is also desirable.
If you consider yourself to be an organised and enthusiastic team player with the ability to deal with multiple tasks then please apply directly.
Full details including a job description and person specification are available here. An application form is available via Google Docs here. You will not be required to log-in to Google and we recommend that on opening the page you click 'file' at top left and then 'download' the form to your computer for editing.
Terms of Employment
This is a full‐time post, based in the Society’s London Office. The successful applicant will be responsible to the Director and will be appointed on a two-year, fixed-term contract basis with a six‐month probationary period.
Salary: £24-28,000 pa, payable by monthly instalments.
Pension: The Society will contribute 5% of the gross salary to the Publications Manager’s pension following the six‐month probationary period, on condition that the employee makes a contribution of 3%.
Notice Period: One calendar month
Application Process
An application form is available for download here and must be returned by e‐mail to application@ees.ac.uk. Do not include a covering letter or a CV as only the form will be considered by the selection panel. If you would like to discuss the post further on an informal basis, please contact the Director, Dr Chris Naunton: chris.naunton@ees.ac.uk.
Applicants are also asked to complete this form to enable us to monitor our recruitment process in relation to the equal opportunities policy.
The closing date for applications is 5pm (GMT) on Friday 15 March 2013. First interviews for short‐listed candidates will be held at the Society’s London Offices during the last week of March or the first week of April 2013. Candidates will also be required to take a short written exercise prior to the interviews.