Editorial Internship, De Gruyter Publishers, Boston, MA

Posted January 6, 2015

De Gruyter has published books and journals for more than 260 years. The Berlin-based group of companies releases over 1,300 new titles each year in the fields of medicine, the humanities, natural sciences, technology and engineering, and law, in addition to more than 650 journals and digital media publications. The De Gruyter Group includes the publishing houses Versita, Birkhäuser, Oldenbourg Wissenschaft, and Akademie. It employees more than 350 professionals globally with offices in Berlin, Boston, Beijing, Basel and Munich. The Boston Office of De Gruyter is located at 125 Pearl Street, Boston, MA 02110 (mailing address: 121 High Street, Boston, MA  02110) www.degruyter.com.

General Role:

Assist Journal Business Development Department in developing and implementing strategy for raising awareness of selected journals, with the goal of increasing article submissions for publication.

Duties:

• Provide support to the Journal Business Development Department through online research of potential contributors for special issue guest editors and articles acquisition.
• Liase with journal Editors-in-chief, Guest Editors, technical reviewers, and contributors in preparing material for submission to the Publisher for publication in its journals.
• Coordinate communication to potential contributors, track their responses, and provide updates to the Journal Business Development Department.
• Conduct market competitor research and competitor analysis for acquisition targets, and present results and recommendation to Editorial, Marketing and Sales Department.

Professional Skills:

• Ability to work alone and to search and query research material in various databases is essential.
• Excellent communications including writing and presenting information is required.
• Ability to manage and to prioritize multiple tasks within defined time periods is important.

Personal Skills:

• Web savvy, especially related to online research would be especially helpful.
• Excellent written and spoken English is essential.

Internship Period:

Spring Semester or approximately 4 months

Contact:

Please forward resume and cover letter to Kathleen Broderick, [email protected]