Journal Production Editor - Maternity leave cover

About Coram

Coram is committed to improving the lives of the UK’s most vulnerable children and young people.

We support children and young people from birth to independence, creating a change that lasts a lifetime.

Coram is the UK’s oldest children’s charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.

About CoramBAAF

CoramBAAF is the successor to BAAF (British Association for Adoption and Fostering). We are a membership organisation dedicated to improving outcomes for children and young people in care by supporting the agencies and professionals who work with them, primarily in the UK but also internationally. CoramBAAF is part of the Coram group, is accountable to its own Board of Directors, and operates independently to support and represent our members, champion best practice, and provide high quality and authoritative information through our services, publications and training events.

About the role

The Journal Production Editor is part of the Publications Team and is managed by the Publications Team Manager. The postholder is responsible for production of CoramBAAF’s quarterly journal, Adoption & Fostering, which is aimed at professionals and academics. The postholder works part-time, in close association with the Journal Editor in Chief. Maternity leave cover is required for this post for around one year.
 

The Adoption & Fostering Journal

Adoption & Fostering is the only quarterly peer-reviewed journal dedicated to family placement issues. Over the years, it has gained an international reputation as one of the world’s leading sources of knowledge for a wide range of professionals: academics and practitioners in social work, psychology, law, medicine, education, training and caring for children and young people. The journal supports CoramBAAF’s aims of promoting the highest standards of practice in adoption, fostering and kinship services, to increase public understanding of the issues and to provide an independent voice for children and families, disseminating new research and practice developments, informing and influencing policy-makers, all those responsible for children and young people, and the public.

Journal Production Editor

The Journal Production Editor is part of the Publications team. The team is responsible for the production and promotion of a range of books, leaflets, training packs, periodicals and other publications. These are aimed at both professionals and the general public.

Main purpose of the role:
• To collaborate with the Editor in Chief in co-publishing CoramBAAF’s flagship quarterly journal, Adoption & Fostering, to a high standard, in partnership with Sage Publications.
• To promote the journal in collaboration with the CoramBAAF Marketing team and Sage.

Journal tasks:
• To ensure the quality of journal content by effectively liaising with the Editor in Chief to agree copy for publication, including submissions and regular features.
• To suggest topics for special editions and participate in the selection of suitable guest editors.
• To administer the peer review system.
• To style edit and proofread all contributions and write occasional cover copy.
• To check references and, as far as possible, ensure accuracy of journal content.
• To liaise closely with authors, requesting clarification where needed, sending out proofs for checking and keeping them informed of progress.
• To arrange for the regular provision of legal and health notes.
• To research, select and finalise up to ten abstracts per edition from other related journals.
• To select occasional books for review and commission reviewers, independently or in collaboration with the Editor in Chief.
• To organise the production of the journal in close collaboration with Sage’s production team.
• To decide the print run and ensure the timely and effective distribution of the Journal in conjunction with CoramBAAF’s Membership team.
• To liaise with CoramBAAF’s Marketing team to formulate promotion campaigns, including social media, and where possible obtain advertising in the Journal.
• To have a general regard for proper financial economy and inform CoramBAAF’s Publications Team Manager of any fluctuations in expenditure.
• To ensure that sound administrative systems are in place and maintained. These include the recent introduction of SageTrack, Sage’s electronic recording system.

Other duties:
• To participate in meetings of the Publications Advisory Group, Publications Team and others, as required.
• To have a commitment to and understanding of equal opportunity and diversity issues and ensure these are reflected in the Journal and in day-to-day work.
• To carry out any other duties that may reasonably be required.
• To recognise and challenge all forms of discrimination and prejudice in the workplace.
• To treat everyone with respect, dignity and fairness and to acknowledge and celebrate diversity.
• To maintain an awareness of your own and others’ health and safety and comply with Coram Group Health and Safety policy and procedures.
• To maintain confidentiality of information; it will be necessary to comply with all requirements related to the Data Protection Act/General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Coram (entity) is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We actively encourage applicants from Asian, African, Caribbean and other minority ethnic backgrounds to join our teams. Whilst we have a diverse team we recognise we are a predominantly white workforce and are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from diverse communities in order to improve the services to the children and families we help.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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To apply and for more information about the role including person specification please follow the Coram Careers' page in by following the employer's website link below.