Freelance (Editorial) Project Manager (ZZP)
Hematologic diseases afflict millions of Europeans each year. The European Hematology Association (EHA), located in the heart of The Hague (Netherlands) is a non-profit professional association serving clinicians and researchers with an active interest in hematology in Europe and beyond. Our mission is to promote excellence in patient care through education, research, and advocacy.
Hematology is constantly changing and evolving. We help our members stay up to date by delivering a structured educational program created by hematologists for hematologists. We offer a range of career development programs to help clinicians and researchers grow professionally and personally. We also advocate for hematologists and hematology at local and international levels.
Further, with HemaSphere, we publish highly relevant basic, translational, and clinical research in hematology. For our Scientific Publications team, we are looking for additional support.
Are you a Project Manager and do you have an active interest in medical science? Would you love to play an active role for HemaSphere, the open access journal of EHA?
We are looking for a
Freelance
(Editorial) Project Manager (ZZP)
A professional with solid experience in Scientific Publications and open access journal publishing.
With a 12.1 impact factor, the HemaSphere (HS) workload is increasing; we are receiving more manuscripts and processing more publications. This additional work needs to be covered by our Scientific Publications team. In addition, there are newly added initiatives to the work plan of our Scientific Publications Department. We are looking forward to welcoming a freelancer to join our team.
The Project Manager works together with two direct colleagues within the team and reports to the Head of Scientific Publications.
Your responsibilities (in order of importance):
- Adding workforce capacity to the journal daily operations
- Supporting (where needed) daily operations with publisher production, vendors, and stakeholder engagement (i.e., editorial board requests and authors' queries)
- Active participant in the team strategy discussions (i.e., ideas, processes, and plans)
- Driving journal data management
- Lead the journal data analytics with an aim of improving processes (SoPs) and productivity
- Take the lead on automatization and harmonization (i.e., A.I. reviews, lean software, tracking troubleshooting, quality flows, stretch timelines, orders, and contracts)
- Executing newly added HemaSphere initiatives(subject to prioritization)
- Managing the translations of some HS articles with the publisher and other likely interested stakeholders (i.e., a specific hematology society)
- Organizing the publishing training during Lighting the Flame for PhD students and postdocs. It initially involves HS editors, the EHA Education Team, and other stakeholders.
- Planning for a new (set) of journals (editorial, licenses, model, procedures…)
Your profile:
- Bachelor degree or higher in Science, Communication, or related-field
- Knowledge about healthcare, medical communication, or scientific publishing
- At least 5 years of project management involvement
- Detailed focus on multiple deadlines and planning
- Proven capacity for managing portfolio deliverables
- Mastering technology, systems, and software (i.e. A.I., Microsoft/Google Suite, online manuscript handling systems)
- Being a visionary thinker and team player, able to support the expansion of our current portfolio
- Talented in critical reasoning, identifying bottlenecks, and solving problems
- Excellent interpersonal skills and collaborative working skills
- Agility in working on multiple complex projects
- Native or near-native English language competency (in writing and oral)
- Any freelancer within the European Union is welcome to apply. Please note that our preference goes to a freelancer living in the Netherlands (with a valid chamber of commerce registration and a valid work permit)
What we offer:
- A freelance/ZZP contract for 6 to 10 months, from September 2024 up to Feb/June 2025
- 32 - 40 hours per week
- An hourly rate between € 45.00 and €55.00
- An international environment: 15+ nationalities in our office, culturally diverse external stakeholders
- A dynamic environment due to the nature of the association
- High degree of autonomy, flexibility, wellbeing, and responsibility
- If Netherlands-based, hybrid working: on average min. 2 days per week in the office (The Hague)
If you are interested in this role, please send your motivation letter and CV latest September 5th, 2024 to recruitment@ehaweb.org.
For further information, please contact Mrs. Lone Maasland, People Manager by e-mail (l.maasland@ehaweb.org) or visit our website ehaweb.org.
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