Publications Specialist
Key Skills for This Role
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Key Result Areas
- Develop and refine editorial workflows covering submissions, peer review, revisions, and publication standards.
- Establish research quality standards for rigor, referencing, peer review, and publication targeting.
- Edit research papers, reports, and scholarly outputs to strengthen clarity, argumentation, structure, and language.
- Manage publication outputs from draft to submission and publication, coordinating internal and external contributors.
- Identify suitable academic, policy, and public-facing venues and contribute to publication planning.
- Translate complex research into policy briefs, executive summaries, blogs, and multimedia scripts.
- Coordinate dissemination with communications teams and develop formats for diverse audiences.
- Build relationships with publishers, journals, research institutions, and external partners for collaborative outputs.
- Maintain the publications website, catalogue, and archive; improve presentation and discoverability.
- Monitor academic publishing and public scholarship trends; undertake other reasonable assigned tasks.
Minimum Knowledge, Skills & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant humanities or social science discipline, such as English Literature, Linguistics, Communications, Journalism, or Translation Studies.
- A research-focused Master’s or PhD is preferred.
- 6–8 years of relevant full-time academic publishing or editorial experience; relevant institutional experience is preferred.
- Two years of experience at a supervisory level.
- Demonstrated ability to develop or implement editorial workflows and quality frameworks.
- Experience translating complex research into accessible public-facing content is essential.
- Knowledge of academic publishing standards, citation styles such as APA or Chicago, peer review, and journal submission requirements.
- Excellent writing skills and ability to draft, translate, and edit varied communications clearly and concisely.
- Arabic proficiency is required.
- MS Office proficiency is required; reference management tools and document management systems are advantageous.
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