Associate or Senior Editor (Social Impacts of Climate), Nature Communications

Job Title:  Affiliate or Senior Editor (Social Impacts of Local weather), Nature Communications

Location: London, New York Metropolis, Philadelphia, Jersey Metropolis or Washington DC – Hybrid Working Mannequin 

Time limit: twenty first March 2024. Candidates can be thought of as they apply.

Nature Communications is the main multidisciplinary Open Entry journal, publishing high-quality scientific analysis. To assist us to construct on the success of this journal, we’re searching for a local weather scientist with a powerful background in utilized climatology, contemplating local weather influence modeling on well being, environmental and social methods. We’re searching for somebody who has a deep understanding of their topic with broad pursuits and the power to assume critically and dynamically when confronted with new info.

In regards to the position

The Affiliate/Senior Editor position at Nature Communications is good for researchers who love science however really feel {that a} profession on the bench isn’t sufficient to sate your need to be taught extra concerning the pure world and for many who take pleasure in studying papers outdoors their chosen space of analysis. This position might be situated in our London, New York Metropolis, Philadelphia, Jersey Metropolis or Washington DC workplace, on a hybrid working mannequin. The place is obtainable on a full-time, everlasting foundation. Editorial expertise shouldn’t be required, though candidates with vital editorial expertise are inspired to use and can probably be thought of for Senior Editor positions.

Position Duties:

• Dealing with authentic analysis papers, and dealing intently with different editors on all points of the editorial course of, together with manuscript choice and overseeing peer evaluate. Making well-reasoned editorial selections on submitted manuscripts within the gentle of professional recommendation. Figuring out the illustration of their topic within the journal. Liaising extensively with editors at different journals within the Nature portfolio and with consultants within the worldwide scientific neighborhood. Attending conferences and visiting analysis establishments.

Expertise, Abilities & {Qualifications}:

• A PhD (or equal) in climatology or environmental sciences. This might embody, however shouldn’t be restricted to social sciences, local weather sciences, local weather influence modeling, or environmental sciences. Some postdoctoral analysis expertise is most popular however not important. An intensive understanding of the basics of the topic is crucial. A ardour for science and a need to be taught extra. You will need to be capable to display the breadth of your curiosity in scientific analysis, each inside and past your speciality and throughout the broader subject of Earth Science. Glorious communication and interpersonal expertise and be fluent in English (written and spoken). The flexibility to learn and assess the novelty, context and implications of analysis submitted to the journal from totally different areas of this self-discipline. Be desperate to journey and meet scientists worldwide, be taught extra about them and their analysis, and assist them be taught extra about us and what we’re searching for within the papers we search to publish.

To use: candidates ought to embody a CV, a canopy letter explaining their curiosity within the put up and their most popular workplace of employment, and a concise (300-400 phrases) dialogue of current scientific developments in any space of environmental/local weather influence analysis that you just discovered significantly thrilling, stating why on the finish of the quilt letter.

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