Journals and Digital Content Coordinator

Journals and Digital Content Coordinator

Final date to receive applications: 16 August 2026

Department:
Public Affairs and Communications

Employment Type:

Permanent
- Full Time

Location:

London, UK

Reporting To:
Publications Manager

Compensation: £32,860 / year

Contract Type:
Permanent
- Fulltime Purpose of Job

This role first involves project managing the delivery and development of two ODI Global academic peer-reviewed journals and maintaining the catalogue and metadata of the ODI Global eLibrary (ODI Global’s institutional repository).

The post holder will plan, coordinate and oversee the operational delivery of Disasters, a major quarterly journal reporting on disaster studies, policies and management, and Development Policy Review (DPR), a leading academic journal in international development.

They will ensure the efficient and timely delivery of the journals’ editorial, production and publication workflows, coordinating across editors, reviewers, authors, publishers and internal teams. The role will also monitor journal performance, support strategic development initiatives, and manage projects that enhance the journals’ reputation and reach.

In addition, the post holder will maintain the ODI Global eLibrary catalogue and register DOIs and metadata with Crossref.

The role will also involve working with ODI Global’s digital team to strengthen the digital growth and engagement of our research across core channels, including the website, social media and newsletter. This will include supporting priority outputs, helping to translate complex research into compelling digital-first content and supporting experimentation.

• Support the coordination and delivery of two academic journals as complex, multi-stakeholder publishing projects.
• Plan, monitor and manage workflows across the full journal lifecycle, ensuring timelines, quality standards and stakeholder expectations are met.
• Coordinate internal and external stakeholders including editors, reviewers, authors, production teams and publishers to ensure smooth project delivery.
• Identify risks, bottlenecks or delays in editorial or production processes and implement solutions to maintain delivery schedules.
• Support strategic improvements to journal workflows, systems and processes.

• Check all new and revised submissions for completeness, anonymisation and compliance with author guidelines before peer review.
• Identify submissions that are beyond the scope of the journals and respond directly or flag to editors to make the desk rejection process more efficient.
• Act as a central point of contact and facilitate the flow of information internally and externally between authors, editors, reviewers and production team.
• Respond to author queries in a timely fashion, liaising with editors where necessary.
• Remind reviewers of unanswered invitations and overdue reviews, and provide support for peer reviewers including granting extensions, uploading reports.
• Remind editors of outstanding reviews and papers awaiting decisions.
• Support editors to find appropriate peer reviewers.
• Collate and prepare the accepted manuscripts to send for copy-editing.
• Liaise with Wiley to resolve any user issues in the Research Exchange Review manuscript tracking system and implement enhanced features as the platform develops.

• Liaise with the freelance copy-editors and act as the interface between copy-editor and authors.
• Proof the typeset copy using Wiley’s Online Proofing System to check for mistakes introduced at this automated stage, liaising with production team and author.
• Sign off the final version prior to publication.

• Monitor journal performance by collecting, analysing and reporting data on submissions, publication output, downloads, citations and income, and present insights at annual editorial board meetings and co-editors’ meetings.
• Plan and coordinate virtual themed issues in response to emerging issues or topics of current interest. Topics are discussed and agreed at editorial meetings.
• Support the creation and production of…