Production Assistant (6 Months FTC)

Location

Bristol

Salary and benefits

Competitive and excellent benefits

Job purpose

The Production Assistant is responsible for managing tasks and activities that support the publication of products in a timely and efficient manner. They contribute to maintaining publications to schedule and to agreed quality standards and support the production team by undertaking tasks such as quality checks, correction and publication as required, working on one or more products across different workflows.

The role is accountable for ensuring they complete production tasks to the standards required by the department and by doing so support the provision of excellent service to our authors and partners. They are also expected to contribute to the development of product quality, customer service and continuous improvement of processes within the department.

Key job accountabilities include

• Data quality checks on a high volume of published articles and web pages.
• Timely response to customer requests for new pages and edits to existing pages, following standard processes.
• Ongoing checks of pages to ensure quality standards are maintained.
• Contribution to other data quality assurance work as required.

About you

Successful applicants should demonstrate the following:

• Degree-level education preferable.
• Previous experience is not essential as full training will be provided.
• Awareness of editorial skills and an aptitude for dealing with language and style.
• Good computer skills and numeracy.
• Effective communication and organizational skills; ability to plan and balance priorities.
• Accuracy and an eye for detail.
• Able to work on own initiative, and flexibly as part of a team.
• Good technical skills; includes an aptitude for HTML, XML, digital file management and online publication.
• Professional attitude and diligent approach.

About the benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer employees a comprehensive benefits package including an excellent pension scheme, discretionary annual bonus scheme, private medical insurance, life assurance and generous annual leave, and a range of flexible benefits including cycle to work and gym membership.

Our modern and contemporary offices* are based in the thriving city centre of Bristol, a stone’s throw away from Temple Meads train station, and within walking distance of Cabot Circus shopping centre, and numerous cafés and restaurants. Named on more than one occasion as the best city in the UK to live in, Bristol is a cosmopolitan and creative city boasting a historic harbour, internationally renowned cultural institutions and home to world-class festivals and events.

*Due to the COVID-19 pandemic we are currently working remotely.

To apply

To apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter through our careers site highlighting your previous experience and how it applies to the role, and why you are interested in this opportunity and IOP Publishing.

About us

IOP Publishing is an international scientific publisher, through which leading-edge research is distributed worldwide. Our rapidly expanding journals programme is published alongside other sources of scientific information in the form of ebooks, magazines and conference proceedings. Other publications include easily accessible community and regional websites. We are a world leader in the development of electronic publishing for the scientific community and have offices in Europe, Asia and the US. Working in the interests of science and scientists, we aim to maximise the impact of the research we publish.

IOP Publishing is central to the Institute of Physics, a not-for-profit society. Any financial surplus earned by IOP Publishing goes to supporting science through the activities of the Institute. With a continuing focus on growth we recognise that every single person has a real part to play if we’re to achieve our aim of becoming the world’s leading publisher in our field.