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The essentials …
- Permanent, full-time (part-time considered)
- £28,000 per year
- Hybrid working with 2 days a week in our Bath office
The Geological Society Publishing House has an exciting opportunity within the publishing operations team for a ‘Publishing Coordinator - Journals’ to maintain the smooth running of the submission and peer review process for the Society’s journal publishing programme.
Who are we?
Founded in 1807, we are the oldest geological society in the world. Today, we are a world-leading communicator of Earth science – through publishing, library and information services, cutting-edge scientific conferences, education activities and outreach to the general public. We also provide impartial scientific information and evidence to support policy-making and public debate about the challenges facing humanity.
We have a membership (Fellowship) of c. 12,000, more than 2,000 of whom are based outside the UK. Approximately 3,000 are Chartered Geologists or Chartered Scientists - professionals who have demonstrated a high level of technical competence in their field and a commitment to professional ethics.
We have been a major publisher within the community since 1811. An independent and international publisher, we are dedicated to providing a high-quality service to geoscientists globally and any surplus is invested to support our discipline. We publish a diverse range of books and journals on the Lyell Collection, with over 10,000 pages of new peer-reviewed geoscience literature being made available every year.
Overall responsibilities / requirements …
To oversee the article submission and peer review process for the Society’s journal publishing programme. Alongside the Publishing Coordinator for Books, implement agreed workflow and development updates across our submission, reviewing and licence management publishing operation systems and contribute to the operational side of the research integrity in house team. Reporting to the Head of Publishing Operations.
Peer-review
- Manage peer review on the Society’s journal portfolio
- Management of editorial freelance services
- Maintain peer review turnaround times and acceptance levels
- Liaison and support of key stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills, teamwork and collaboration across team
- Accountability to meet competing deadlines in a dynamic environment
- Ensure that manuscripts meet requirements and follow current policies and procedures
- Uphold excellent contributor experience for authors, editors, and reviewers
- Work with different teams to identify key articles for promotion and improve journal visibility
Operational systems
- Develop system configuration skills required to become an operational systems specialist for the Society’s manuscript submission and production system (currently Editorial Manager and Production Manager) and its third-party integrated systems (such as licence and open access management and research integrity tools)
- Work with colleagues to troubleshoot persistent manuscript, workflow or system issues, providing expertise and advice, and exercising judgement to resolve the issue
- Developing an understanding of XML tagging would be desirable
Research Integrity
- Work with colleagues to maintain guidance and use of tools to comply with industry research integrity standards
- Research integrity operational checks and assessments
The duties and responsibilities highlighted in this Job Description are indicative and may vary over time. As required, post holders are expected to undertake other duties and responsibilities relevant to the nature, level and scope of the post.
What we’re looking for …
Essential
- Experience with STM publishing workflows
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work well as part of a team
- Experience in communicating with internal and external stakeholders
- Excellent attention to detail and decision-making ability
- Excellent IT proficiency and full familiarity with the normal range of office/publishing software
- Organized, deadline-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities
Desirable
- Experience with STM submission and production systems
- Experience working with suppliers
- Working knowledge of XML and HTML
- Experience with research integrity issues and systems
- Good troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Experience collaborating across teams and an ability to contribute to a culture of continuous improvement
- Degree level education
- Experience of working for a learned or professional society (or other charitable organisation with trustees, committees and volunteers)
Person Specification
- Excellent interpersonal skills, and a commitment to collaborative working across the Society
- Self-motivated, proactive, with the confidence to act independently and with a flexible approach
- A commitment to personal development and learning
- Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines, prioritising work accordingly
- Positivity and enthusiasm
A bit about us …
The Geological Society is a registered charity and employs just under 60 staff at its offices in London and Bath. The Society Publishing House is based in Bath, from where we provide a full publishing service to an international geoscience community across a portfolio of books, journals, and associated products.
As an employee conscious company, we invest in our staff by emphasising training, growth and progression in every role. We firmly believe in creating a positive workplace wellbeing culture and offer a range of benefits to our staff including:
- 25 days basic holiday entitlement, increasing up to 30 days with continued service (pro-rated for part-time staff)
- Option to purchase up to 2 days extra holiday days per year
- Contributary pension scheme with 10% employer contribution
- Access to 24/7 online GP with mental health & wellbeing counselling
- Free premium Headspace account for you and 2 members of friends/family
- Discounts and recognitions scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Season Ticket Loan scheme
- Life Assurance and Income Protection schemes
- Free access to Royal Academy exhibitions
- Free Geological Society Fellow membership for qualified staff
The Society is committed to fostering an inclusive culture that promotes equality, values diversity and maintains a harmonious inclusive environment in which the rights and dignity of all its members visitors and staff are respected. We are an equal opportunities employer and the post-holder will be expected to adhere to and support the Society’s commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion.
How to apply …
To apply for this position, please click the 'Apply' button to be re-directed to our website. Please ensure that your cover letter highlights your experience in no more than 500 words.
As part of our inclusive recruitment initiative, we have introduced the concept of anonymous recruiting in order to evaluate applicants solely on their skills and experience. With this in mind, we encourage you to:
- Anonymise your application by stating only your initials in your CV (including your file name) and cover letter
- State your initials only and job title you are applying for in the subject line when sending your application
- Ensure that you have included your contact email and number, as well as dates when you will not be available or might have difficulty with the indicative timetable
Please let us know if you will require any special provisions to be made should you be called for an interview. We regret that unsuccessful candidates will not be contacted.
All applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
Registered Charity
51 - 100
To support Earth scientists, grow interest in the natural world, and connect science, the profession and society.
Thank you!
Bid Coordinator
Contracted Days: [5 days per week]
About Offploy:
Offploy is a social enterprise and charity committed to creating a fairer society by helping individuals with convictions, or at risk of offending, lead crime-free lives. Founded in 2016 by an ex-prisoner, we have supported over 5,000 people with tailored services that build skills, confidence, and opportunity. With team members who have lived experience in the justice system, we’re uniquely positioned to deliver impactful, life-changing services that make communities safer.
Role Purpose
To support the Development Function by managing opportunity research, bid compliance, and submission processes, ensuring a high-quality, organised and proactive pipeline of commissioned, grant and framework opportunities.
The Bid Coordinator will play a critical role in maintaining bid governance, strengthening pre-tender intelligence, and ensuring timely, compliant submissions, while providing light-touch writing support where required.
Key Responsibilities
1. Opportunity Monitoring & Market Intelligence
- Monitor procurement portals (e.g. Contracts Finder, Find a Tender, DPS platforms, local authority portals) independently to identify relevant opportunities not yet captured in Stotles
- Use Stotles to its full capability for pre-bid market intelligence, including commissioner profiling, spend analysis, contract expiry tracking, award pattern analysis, and commissioning trend identification
- Flag potential opportunities to the Senior Bid Manager for qualification, supporting the maintenance of a 12-month forward pipeline
- Track live frameworks, grants and pipeline intelligence aligned to strategic priorities
- Maintain Bids, Grants and Awards in Salesforce (ensuring accurate stage progression
- Conduct early-stage opportunity research including:
- Contract history and incumbent analysis
- Buyer behaviour and award trends
- Estimated contract value benchmarking
- Local delivery landscape and competitor mapping
- Prepare opportunity summaries to inform bid/no-bid discussions
2. Pre-Bid & Qualification Support
- Support bid/no-bid qualification processes
- Draft opportunity summaries for internal review
- Identify key risks (financial, delivery, TUPE, geographic, partnership requirements)
- Coordinate clarification questions where required
3. Bid Compliance & Submission Management
- Lead on completion of Selection Questionnaires (SQ), PQQs and standard compliance sections
- Maintain and update core compliance responses (policies, certifications, insurance, accounts, etc.)
- Ensure all attachments are current and correctly formatted
- Manage portal uploads and submission checks
- Conduct final compliance reviews before submission
- Maintain submission records and audit trail
4. Bid Toolkit & Content Library Management
- Maintain and update the Bid Toolkit (case studies, CVs, policies, impact data, boilerplate responses)
- Ensure evidence packs (e.g. wellbeing, confidence, lived-experience delivery) remain current
- Coordinate with Operations to gather up-to-date impact data and testimonials
- Version control all key documents
- Ensure alignment between toolkit content and organisational messaging
5. Writing & Development Support
- Provide light-touch drafting support for lower-risk questions
- Adapt standard responses to specific tenders
- Support editing, formatting and proofreading of submissions
- Assist in formatting submissions for clarity and consistency
- Support post-award review documentation and lessons learned logs
6. Reporting & Continuous Improvement
- Support quarterly pipeline reporting
- Track win rates and conversion trends
- Log feedback from unsuccessful bids and support thematic analysis
7. Repeatable Tasks by Cadence
Daily
- Check procurement portals and Stotles alerts for new or updated opportunities
- Monitor active submission deadlines and flag any risks to the Senior Bid Manager
- Update Salesforce with any status changes or new intelligence
Weekly
- Conduct a structured Stotles review: run commissioner and keyword searches, review expiring contracts, and log any new intelligence relevant to the pipeline
- Prepare and circulate a pipeline update summary ahead of any scheduled development team check-ins
- Review and progress any live clarification questions or portal correspondence
- Check and update bid toolkit items flagged as requiring refresh (policies, CVs, compliance documents)
Monthly
- Conduct a full pipeline review with the Senior Bid Manager, including stage progression, upcoming decision gates, and opportunities requiring early research
- Review compliance document expiry dates and initiate renewals where required (insurance certificates, policies, accounts)
- Gather updated impact data and outcomes from Operations/Salesforce for use in live bids and store in Bid Toolkit
- Update Salesforce with any new bid outcomes (awards, losses, withdrawals)
Quarterly
- Conduct a full audit of the bid toolkit: identify gaps, flag outdated content, and coordinate updates with the relevant teams
- Review Stotles usage and market intelligence gathered over the quarter; identify any commissioning patterns or emerging opportunities to inform the development strategy
Person Specification
Essential
- Strong organisational and deadline management skills
- Experience working with procurement portals
- High attention to detail, particularly in compliance documentation
- Ability to analyse information and summarise key points clearly
- Strong written communication skills
Desirable
- Experience in bid coordination, tender administration or similar role
- Experience within employability, social justice, or public sector contracts
- Familiarity with Salesforce or CRM systems
- Experience supporting SQ/PQQ completion
- Understanding of public procurement processes in the UK
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
The essentials …
- Permanent, full-time (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm)
- £27,000 per year
- Hybrid working with 2 days a week in our Bath office
The Geological Society Publishing House has an exciting opportunity within our publishing team to provide wide-ranging administrative support for editorial development team activities and project work. Utilise Editorial Manager and online content platform systems to support provision of guidelines for contributors and setting up of new titles and collections.
Who are we?
Founded in 1807, we are the oldest geological society in the world. Today, we are a world-leading communicator of Earth science – through publishing, library and information services, cutting-edge scientific conferences, education activities and outreach to the general public. We also provide impartial scientific information and evidence to support policy-making and public debate about the challenges facing humanity.
We have a membership (Fellowship) of c. 12,000, more than 2,000 of whom are based outside the UK. Approximately 3,000 are Chartered Geologists or Chartered Scientists - professionals who have demonstrated a high level of technical competence in their field and a commitment to professional ethics.
We have been a major publisher within the community since 1811. An independent and international publisher, we are dedicated to providing a high-quality service to geoscientists globally and any surplus is invested to support our discipline. We publish a diverse range of books and journals on the Lyell Collection, with over 10,000 pages of new peer-reviewed geoscience literature being made available every year.
Overall responsibilities / requirements …
Editorial development:
Wide-ranging support for staff and activities, to include:
- Support for commissioning processes, to include:
- Research and data collection
- Profiling online sources such as conference schedules, departmental websites …
- Identifying and collecting contact details for potential leads
- Use of bibliographic databases such as Dimensions (for data collection)
- Reporting (data collection and compilation): annual reports, reports for partners, read and publish usage, Top Reviewers, and others
- Support for meetings of Editorial Boards and Publication and Information Committee: coordinating meeting dates, compiling meeting papers and resources, recording meeting minutes
- Gathering feedback from external collaborators, including administration of editor surveys
- Proposal review process for new books and thematic collections: researching and inviting reviewers and collating comments from reviewers and editors
Editorial projects and resources:
- Coordinating the process for contracting new book volumes, in collaboration with Books Commissioning Editor
- Setting up new book volumes and journal thematic collections via Editorial Manager system and Lyell Collection online platform
- Support the provision of editor training on use of EM, in collaboration with Publishing Coordinators and Journal Development Editor / Commissioning Editor
- Support maintenance of online guidelines for editorial contributors via Publishing Support Hub, in collaboration with Pub Hub Advisory Group
- Ad hoc support for copyright permissions process, including liaising with authors towards clearing figure and personal communications, as required
- Market research and data collection for editorial projects. Examples may include AI for publishing, research integrity, tenders and proposals, new partnerships (books)
General:
- Support for Editor and Authors newsletters – coordinating schedule and content, liaising with editorial and marketing colleagues
- Any other tasks that can be reasonably requested
What we’re looking for …
- Educated to A-level or degree level
- Good IT proficiency (particularly spreadsheets) and full familiarity with the normal range of office software
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Excellent administrative, organisational and time management skills
- Some general knowledge of, and interest in, the publishing process would be helpful
The duties and responsibilities highlighted in this Job Description are indicative and may vary over time. As required, post holders are expected to undertake other duties and responsibilities relevant to the nature, level and scope of the post.
A bit about us …
The Geological Society is a registered charity and employs just under 60 staff at its offices in London and Bath. The Society Publishing House is based in Bath, from where we provide a full publishing service to an international geoscience community across a portfolio of books, journals, and associated products.
As an employee conscious company, we invest in our staff by emphasising training, growth and progression in every role. We firmly believe in creating a positive workplace wellbeing culture and offer a range of benefits to our staff including:
- 25 days basic holiday entitlement, increasing up to 30 days with continued service (pro-rated for part-time staff)
- Option to purchase up to 2 days extra holiday days per year
- Contributary pension scheme with 10% employer contribution
- Access to 24/7 online GP with mental health & wellbeing counselling
- Free premium Headspace account for you and 2 members of friends/family
- Discounts and recognitions scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Season Ticket Loan scheme
- Life Assurance and Income Protection schemes
- Free access to Royal Academy exhibitions
- Free Geological Society Fellow membership for qualified staff
The Society is committed to fostering an inclusive culture that promotes equality, values diversity and maintains a harmonious inclusive environment in which the rights and dignity of all its members visitors and staff are respected. We are an equal opportunities employer and the post-holder will be expected to adhere to and support the Society’s commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion.
How to apply …
To apply for this position, please click the 'Apply' button to be re-directed to our website. Please ensure that your cover letter highlights your experience in no more than 500 words.
As part of our inclusive recruitment initiative, we have introduced the concept of anonymous recruiting in order to evaluate applicants solely on their skills and experience. With this in mind, we encourage you to:
- Anonymise your application by stating only your initials in your CV (including your file name) and cover letter
- State your initials only and job title you are applying for in the subject line when sending your application
- Ensure that you have included your contact email and number, as well as dates when you will not be available or might have difficulty with the indicative timetable
Please let us know if you will require any special provisions to be made should you be called for an interview. We regret that unsuccessful candidates will not be contacted.
All applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
Registered Charity
51 - 100
To support Earth scientists, grow interest in the natural world, and connect science, the profession and society.