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Associate or Senior Editor, Communications Sustainability

IN / CN💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-14 → 2026-09-26

Core

Selecting and developing manuscripts for the open-access journal Communications Sustainability, which publishes high-quality research across natural and social sciences and engineering focused on environmental change, pollution, resource use, and climate adaptation.

Role type

Associate or Senior Editor (Communications Sustainability)

Builds

A multidisciplinary open-access journal covering sustainability-relevant research

Domain

Environmental sciences, sustainability, natural and social sciences

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

PhD level research experience in environmental sciences, analytical or computational methods (remote sensing, spatial analysis, systems or integrated assessment modelling), scientific comprehension, critical scientific evaluation, academic writing, editorial oversight

Preferred skills

Editorial experience, postdoctoral experience, ability to read and assess novelty across disciplines, conference attendance and research institution visits

Technologies

remote sensing, spatial analysis, systems modelling, integrated assessment modelling

Responsibilities

Select manuscripts for publication with editorial oversight, optimize titles and abstracts for readership, transfer accepted manuscripts to production, recommend manuscripts for press releases, recruit and train external editors, attend conferences and visit research institutions, advise advertising and marketing, devise editorial content for special projects

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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