Journals Editorial Intern

Organisation and Department: Elsevier, STMJ

Role and hours: Journals Editorial Intern– 35 hours per week

Location: Home Based Role with the opportunity to visit a local office

Line manager name and email: Simon Jones s.jones@elsevier.com and Riadh Khelil r.khelil@elsevier.com

Mentor name and email: TBD

Salary: £27,000 annually for London and £24,500 for rest of UK (pro rata)

Start/ end dates: 01/06/26 to 01/9/26

Flexibility: Fully remote / flexible hours 

Interview process: Online

Accessible by: Computer

Student/ graduate: [either / student/ graduate] (preference in case of role extension) 

About us:   

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.

Responsibilities:  

We are seeking an Intern to join our Life and Social Sciences team. In this role, you will assist Publishers, Publishing Directors, Administrative Coordinators, Journal Managers, and other staff members. You will spend time working alongside different team members, learning about their daily tasks and responsibilities. Your work will include supporting projects aimed at making the publishing process smoother for authors and helping to develop our journals. This role offers a broad introduction to academic journal publishing and involves both collaborative work with the team and independent tasks. Your contributions will help improve how we manage and deliver our publications, making this role important for maintaining the quality and growth of our journals.

Skills or experiences

• Taking ownership of interesting and varied administration tasks, supporting the publisher in the smooth running and success of our journals.

• Undertaking market research to define specific emerging scientific areas of research and presenting outcomes to internal and external editors

• Gathering data, information, and facts by using existing reports. Including building analyses for publishers to use in proposals, reports, editorial appointments and meetings.

•  Managing various systems to ensure that data is up to date and accurate.

• Assisting Publishers in journal development to accelerate growth of published content through market research and topic analysis.

• Teamworking: you will need to work closely with team members and other publishing colleagues to help deliver on collaborative projects and goals.

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