Acquisitions Editor

11-Mar-2024

Harvard Graduate Faculty of Training

65282BR

Job Abstract

Harvard Training Press (HEP) is a mission-driven, impartial, college press affiliated with the Harvard Graduate Faculty of Training.  Based in 2002, the Press is overseen by an editorial advisory board drawn from the HGSE college and affiliated practitioners, and peer overview is on the coronary heart of our publishing course of. The HEP workplaces are adjoining to campus within the coronary heart of Harvard Sq., Cambridge, MA.

Our mission is to supply practitioners and policymakers with the data, instruments, and data they should perceive and handle the academic points dealing with our society right now and tomorrow.  As a discussion board for the number of thought within the discipline, we drive the dialog about schooling.

HEP is searching for an acquisitions editor to accumulate books on important points in schooling and books which translate instructional analysis into observe.  The perfect candidate could have a deep understanding of the self-discipline of schooling, expertise in educational publishing, editorial experience, an entrepreneurial spirit, and a dedication to advancing the mission of Harvard Training Press.

The Acquisitions Editor will likely be liable for buying roughly 15  titles per yr and can work intently with the editorial crew and Govt Director to assist form our evolving program. A part of what makes HEP distinctive is the shut, collaborative editorial relationship authors can count on in working with us—the Acquisitions Editor is subsequently liable for creating the titles they signal, from contract to publication. The Acquisitions Editor will even assist handle a proficient crew of interns and freelance help as wanted.

Place Description

• Acquires roughly 15 educational/skilled books per yr within the fields of schooling analysis, coverage, and observe.
• Contributes to the HEP editorial program by sustaining and increasing present publishing lists and figuring out new areas of curiosity.  The present publishing program strengths embody such areas as instructional management, tutorial enchancment, race and fairness in schooling, and schooling coverage.
• Solicits, develops, and evaluates proposals in session with editorial colleagues, identifies acceptable reviewers and manages the peer overview course of, and presents proposals to the HEP Editorial Advisory Board.
• Works with authors to develop and revise each proposals and manuscripts to make sure they incorporate suggestions from peer reviewers and meet Press requirements.
• Works intently with colleagues in manufacturing to make sure a clean workflow and consults often with colleagues in advertising and marketing and gross sales to make sure books attain their goal readerships.

Primary {Qualifications}

Bachelor’s diploma.

Minimal 3 years of publishing/editorial acquisitions expertise.

Occasional journey is required.

Any candidate wishing to be thought of should provide a canopy letter along with their resume

Extra {Qualifications} and Expertise

Educational/skilled publishing background strongly most popular, and with a monitor document of excellent acquisitions.

Data of the schooling sector, together with present analysis and points in Ok-12 and better schooling, notably in race and schooling, strongly most popular.

Confirmed editorial judgment; glorious communication and networking talents; confirmed initiative; skill to work independently; and powerful interpersonal expertise required.

Graduate stage diploma in Training and/or 3-5 years {of professional} schooling expertise most popular.  

The flexibility to return into the Cambridge workplaces 2-3 days per week is strongly most popular.

Working Situations

HGSE is at present creating dynamic office fashions which is able to actively help a mix of on-campus and distant work (inside a state during which Harvard is registered to do enterprise) the place enterprise and operational wants permit. You and your supervisor will focus on the perfect schedule based mostly in your position and operational want. In case your position permits for distant work, please observe that each one distant work should be carried out inside a state during which Harvard is registered to do enterprise (CA (Solely Exempt), CT, GA, IL, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, RI, VA, VT, and WA). Please additionally observe that Harvard will withhold every relevant state’s required tax and different withholdings out of your paycheck for the time you’re employed there.

The well being of our workforce is a precedence for Harvard College. With that in thoughts, we strongly encourage all workers to be up-to-date on CDC-recommended vaccines.

We remorse that the Harvard Graduate Faculty of Training doesn’t present Visa sponsorship.

Extra Data

HGSE is a various neighborhood of learners, lecturers, and workers who’re keen about altering the world by means of schooling and striving for optimum affect within the discipline of schooling.

HGSE Human Sources values range in all kinds, and believes that every worker brings a set of various experiences and identities to the office that makes us stronger, encourages innovation, and enhances our collective contributions.  We proceed to develop and help a workforce that displays the variety of these we serve; fosters an setting that enables every particular person to belong and to deliver their finest self to work; and creates the circumstances that empower workers to contribute their full potential to advancing the work of the varsity.
We do that by:

•    Hiring and retaining workers reflecting the variety of these we serve;
•    Offering workers alternatives to study, develop, and be challenged;
•    Reviewing and guaranteeing equity and fairness in HR practices and insurance policies together with however not restricted to hiring, promotion, and compensation;
•    Creating robust relationships and partnerships inner and exterior to our neighborhood to advance range and inclusion;
•    Speaking transparently and respectfully; and
•    Fostering an inclusive, respectful, {and professional} work setting  

In regards to the Harvard Graduate Faculty of Training

Many select to work on the Harvard Graduate Faculty of Training as a result of they consider in our mission and are excited by our imaginative and prescient for the long run. We now have a fame as an ideal place to work, for our glorious management, and we’re a robust neighborhood that values range. For extra details about HGSE, its applications, analysis, and school, please go to: www.gse.harvard.edu

Work Format Particulars

It is a hybrid place that’s based mostly in Massachusetts. Extra particulars will likely be mentioned throughout the interview course of. All distant work should be carried out inside one of many Harvard Registered Payroll States, which at present consists of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Washington, and California (CA for exempt positions solely). Sure visa varieties and funding sources might restrict work location. People should meet work location sponsorship necessities previous to employment.

Advantages

We invite you to go to Harvard’s Whole Rewards web site (https://hr.harvard.edu/totalrewards ) to study extra about our excellent advantages package deal, which can embody:

• Paid Time Off: 3-4 weeks of accrued trip time per yr (3 weeks for help workers and 4 weeks for administrative/skilled workers), 12 accrued sick days per yr, 12.5 holidays plus a Winter Recess in December/January, 3 private days per yr (prorated based mostly on date of rent), and as much as 12 weeks of paid depart for brand new mother and father who’re major care givers.
• Well being and Welfare: Complete medical, dental, and imaginative and prescient advantages, incapacity and life insurance coverage applications, together with voluntary advantages. Most protection begins as of your begin date.
• Work/Life and Wellness: Baby and elder/grownup care sources together with on campus childcare facilities, Worker Help Program, and wellness applications associated to emphasize administration, diet, meditation, and extra.
• Retirement: College-funded retirement plan with contributions from 5% to fifteen% of eligible compensation, based mostly on age and earnings with full vesting after 3 years of service.
• Tuition Help Program: Aggressive program together with $40 per class on the Harvard Extension Faculty and decreased tuition by means of different taking part Harvard graduate faculties.
• Tuition Reimbursement: Program that gives 75% to 90% reimbursement as much as $5,250 per calendar yr for eligible programs taken at different accredited establishments.
• Skilled Improvement: Packages and courses at little or no value, together with by means of the Harvard Heart for Office Improvement and LinkedIn Studying.
• Commuting and Transportation: Numerous commuter choices dealt with by means of the Parking Workplace, together with discounted parking, half-priced public transportation passes and pre-tax transit passes, biking advantages, and extra.
• Harvard Services Entry, Reductions and Perks: Entry to Harvard athletic and health amenities, libraries, campus occasions, credit score union, and extra, in addition to reductions to varied kinds of providers (authorized, monetary, and so on.) and cultural and leisure actions all through metro-Boston.

Job Perform

Communications

Division Workplace Location

USA – MA – Cambridge

Work Format

Hybrid (partially on-site, partially distant)

Union

00 – Non Union, Exempt or Momentary

Pre-Employment Screening

Training, Id

Dedication to Fairness, Range, Inclusion, and Belonging

Harvard College views fairness, range, inclusion, and belonging because the pathway to attaining inclusive excellence and fostering a campus tradition the place everybody can thrive. We try to create a neighborhood that pulls upon the widest doable pool of expertise to unify excellence and variety whereas absolutely embracing people from diversified backgrounds, cultures, races, identities, life experiences, views, beliefs, and values.

EEO Assertion

We’re an equal alternative employer and all certified candidates will obtain consideration for employment with out regard to race, colour, faith, intercourse, nationwide origin, incapacity standing, protected veteran standing, gender id, sexual orientation, being pregnant and pregnancy-related circumstances, or some other attribute protected by legislation.

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