This person will:

• Report directly to the associations Executive Director
• Oversee and Direct the print and electronic scholarly publications program
• Direct the clients continuing growth into digital publishing and an electronic portal
• Manage the entire editorial and production processes including content acquisitions
• Manage copyright permissions, royalties, reprints, promotions and advertising for publications
• Manage a staff or 3 direct reports, 33 publication editors and 22 committee members
• Have P&L responsibility and will manage a $2 Million + annual Publications budget
• Research and negotiate contracts with a variety of external vendors
• Be the key liaison between the Assn and their production/distribution vendor
• Be the key liaison between the Assn and their various academic editors
• Represent this publishers publishing program to the broader scholarly publishing world

Qualifications needed are:

• Graduate/advanced degree - ideally in some form of Social Sciences
• 5+ years of scholarly publication management (ideally with some in a digital format)
• Experience managing personnel and ability to work well in a collaborative environment
• A proven ability to edit, proofread, and manage production processes
• A Knowledge of state of the art electronic publishing and distribution processes

Client information:

This client is a 100+ year old Social Sciences Association with over 10,000 members.   They have 22 employees and publishes a variety of Journals, Monographs, Newsletters and books including 28 active journals.

This client provides a decent base salary, solid benefits program and a potential bonus program.