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EDITOR

Employer: Duke University
Location: Durham, NC

Faculty Jobs: Arts & Humanities
Administrative Jobs: Academic Affairs, Publishing & Presses
Jobs Outside Higher Education: Publishers & Presses
Employment Type: Full Time
Institution Type: Four-Year Institution

Job Details
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Job Details

Auto req ID
108499BR
Duke Entity
DUKE REGIONAL HOSPITAL
Job Code
2002 EDITOR
Job Description
Occupational Summary

Assist in a variety of activities involved in the marketability assessment, solicitation, acquisition, and editorial review of manuscripts to be published as books; monitor the various stages of acquisition, review, advertisement and publication to ensure that required activities are adhered to and a reasonable schedule is met.

Work Performed

Assist in soliciting, acquiring and reviewing prospective manuscripts for publication; identify academic subject matter not fully addressed or covered within the market and develop new ideas for possible publication; identify authors and convince them to commit to publishing. Monitor and coordinate manuscripts through the various stages of acquisition, review and publication to ensure required activities are adhered to and a reasonable schedule is met.

Arrange for reviews of selected manuscripts by experts in topic field; ensure manuscripts are reviewed for appropriateness as well as to critique and improve the substance of the document; review format to ensure conformity with set guidelines.

Assist in preparing acquisition proposals based on expert reviews of manuscript and estimated potential; present recommendation to Editorial Advisory Board for approval; follow up on questions or suggestions by board members as appropriate.

Maintain liaison with authors to discuss recommended changes in approved manuscript; prepare standard contract with authors outlining all appropriate and pertinent information.

Maintain contact with other university presses, authors and reviewers to identify trends in various fields; generate ideas for manuscripts, review with Editor-in-Chief and solicit authors.

Consult with Marketing Department to discuss advertising and sales programs; determine appropriate number of books to publish based on potential market sales; participate in setting appropriate prices for books.

Compile reports and analyses setting forth progress, adverse trends and appropriate recommendations and conclusions. Attend professional meetings and conventions as appropriate.

Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.

The above statements describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties required of personnel so classified.

Location
Durham
Requisition Number
401539022
Position Title
EDITOR
Shift
First/Day
Job Family Level
12
Full Time / Part Time
PRN
Regular / Temporary
Regular
Department Name
CHIEF NURSING OFFICER
Minimum Qualifications
Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.
Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.
Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.

Education/Training
Work requires organizational, analytical and communications skills normally acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program.

Experience
Work requires three years editorial or marketing experience in a publishing or related setting to acquire skills necessary to perform activities associated with the solicitation and acquisition of manuscripts, editorial review, assessment of manuscript marketability, and preparation of books for publication. OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

Skills
N/A

Organization

History

Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892, where Benjamin Newton Duke served as a primary benefactor and link with the Duke family until his death in 1929. In December 1924, the provisions of indenture by Benjamin’s brother, James B. Duke, created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University. Duke Campus

As a result of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent both physical and academic expansion. The original Durham campus became known as East Campus when it was rebuilt in stately Georgian architecture. West Campus, Gothic in style and dominated by the soaring 210-foot tower of Duke Chapel, opened in 1930. East Campus served as home of the Woman's College of Duke University until 1972, when the men's and women's undergraduate colleges merged. Both men and women undergraduates now enroll in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus became the home for all first-year students.

Duke maintains a historic affiliation with the United Methodist Church.

Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.

Mission Statement

Duke Science "James B. Duke's founding Indenture of Duke University directed the members of the University to 'provide real leadership in the educational world' by choosing individuals of 'outstanding character, ability, and vision' to serve as its officers, trustees and faculty; by carefully selecting students of 'character, determination and application;' and by pursuing those areas of teaching and scholarship that would 'most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom, and promote human happiness.'

“To these ends, the mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; to prepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service by providing excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health, through sophisticated medical research and thoughtful patient care; to provide wide ranging educational opportunities, on and beyond our campuses, for traditional students, active professionals and life-long learners using the power of information technologies; and to promote a deep appreciation for the range of human difference and potential, a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship, and a commitment to learning, freedom and truth. Duke Meeting

“By pursuing these objectives with vision and integrity, Duke University seeks to engage the mind, elevate the spirit, and stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with the University; to contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that we do.”

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