Publishing Assistant - Journals - Cambridge at The Royal Society of Chemistry

Position Publishing Assistant - Journals - Cambridge
Posted 14 Aug 2026
Expired 13 Sep 2026
Company The Royal Society of Chemistry
Location Cambridge | GB
Job Type Full Time

Job Description:

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Publishing Assistant - Journals - Cambridge

Circa:

Salary - Salary Plan, 26,000.00 GBP Annual

We are currently look for a Publishing Assistant, Journals on a full time temporary basis, expected to be up to 12 months.

About the RSC

The Royal Society of Chemistry is a not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to advance chemical sciences. As a not-for-profit publisher, we reinvest surplus funds back into the global scientific community, supporting our purpose to help the chemical science community make the world a better place.

The RSC strives to continuously innovate its product and services to adapt to market and customer needs, maintain relevancy and diversify revenues from print journals. This requires a market-led and outside-in thinking approach to product and service innovation.

Benefits

At the Royal Society of Chemistry, we promote a healthy work/life balance and flexible working options across the organisation. We offer a comprehensive benefits package to all employees including:

  • 26 days paid holiday per annum
  • 35-hour working week with flexible options
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
  • Paid volunteering days
  • Pension plan with up to 12% employer contributions (depending upon your contribution)
  • Life assurance at three times basic annual salary

The role

The main purpose of this role is to provide excellent customer service through the provision of key administrative support for our journals, in accordance with editorial and production procedures and deadlines. Working within a large team, this role involves dealing with queries from scientists around the world, and helping them to submit their manuscripts to the large portfolio of journals published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

The Publishing Assistant role plays a key role enabling the Journals publishing team to achieve its aim of being a digital-first publisher focused on delivering high-quality, accessible, impactful content and an excellent customer experience.

Your responsibilities will focus on:

  • administrative duties associated with the processing of articles submitted and published in our journals;
  • daily correspondence with authors, reviewers and publishing staff;
  • accurate record keeping of article workflow using management systems;
  • prepare invoices for payments using financial systems;
  • collaboration with other Publishing Assistants and journals teams to ensure the smooth running of the department.

We are looking for:

  • previous administration experience is required;
  • efficient and competent in the use of software packages associated with PCs. Ability to use other software packages associated with opening and manipulating of file attachments of varying types of software.
  • good organisational and time-management skills are required together with the ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines;
  • good attention to detail;
  • good communication skills in interacting with internal and external contacts are essential;
  • ability to work well in a team;
  • experience of a database tracking system is desirable.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply before the end of our closing date.

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At the RSC, we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce and welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds to apply. We particularly encourage applications from disabled and ethnic minority candidates.

As a part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we endeavour, where possible, to offer an interview to candidates meeting the essential criteria of the role, who has a substantial physical/mental impairment which impacts their ability to carry out day-to-day tasks.

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Job Info:

  • Company: The Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Position: Publishing Assistant - Journals - Cambridge
  • Work Location: Cambridge
  • Country: GB

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