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Managing Editor, Postcolonial Studies

Institute of Postcolonial Studies
  • Starting early December
  • 0.3 FTE or 10.5 hours per week, $88,750 pro rata, plus 9.5% superannuation.
  • 12 month rolling contract on confirmation of six-month probation.

The Institute of Postcolonial Studies

The Institute of Postcolonial Studies is an independent public educational project. We interrogate colonial relations and their consequences in the past, present and future in Australia and globally. We build collaborations, projects, and knowledge in support of new forms of sustainable coexistence.

We operate a lively hub where scholars, students, artists, activists and citizens come together to share practically engaged ideas for creating a better world. Through creative research, performance, and discussions we aim to cultivate new relationships of shared responsibility and care—across communities and for the places we inhabit.

A cluster of issues make our vision for coexistence through critical and creative practice compelling and also indicate the unique contribution to be made by an organisation that highlights attention to colonial legacies as vital to any future focused community building exercise. These include:

  • Australian governments’ ongoing failure to address the long shadow of settler colonisation
  • The refusal of care in Australia’s response to displaced persons seeking refuge 
  • Faultlines around the resettlement of migrant communities
  • Climate crisis and broader issues of human impact on the natural world
  • Challenges related to how and what we produce, consume, and exchange between cities and rural and remote regions. 

We aim to support projects that intervene in public debate; generate discussions that can change minds; and produce practically grounded ideas for ethical and just relationships geared towards a better future.

The Institute is home to the internationally renowned scholarly journal, Postcolonial Studies.

Postcolonial Studies

Postcolonial Studies is the flagship scholarly journal of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne. Established in 1996 and published by Taylor and Francis, the journal has a strong international reputation and is edited by a diversely located global board. It is published four times a year.

We are seeking an experienced, well organised, and energetic Managing Editor to oversee the editorial administration and workflows associated with ensuring high quality production and timely publication of the journal. The Managing Editor must have the necessary expertise and confidence to desk reject submissions that fall outside of the journal’s editorial scope (Postcolonial Studies currently receives more than 150 submissions per year, 80% of which are rejected, as well as proposals for special issues); liaise directly with authors, editors, guest editors, reviewers, publishers; and be responsible for collating and efficiently delivering final copy into the publishing system.

The Managing Editor works closely with the journal’s co-editors and reviews editor who are currently located in Australia, India and the UK, and is supported by the journal’s convening editor(s).

Essential requirements

  • A BA(Hons) or higher tertiary degree in the social sciences or humanities
  • Demonstrated experience in structural editing and sub-editing of published academic work in the humanities and/or social sciences
  • Demonstrated experience working with the academic system of peer review, and in liaising with authors, reviewers, and publishers
  • Demonstrated experience working with the Taylor and Francis online Editorial Manager system or equivalent
  • Demonstrated capacity for a high level of administrative organisation, ability to plan and oversee an efficient work schedule, plan effectively, and establish and meet tight deadlines
  • This position is based in Melbourne, with a requirement to participate in face-to-face meetings, but flexible work arrangements are supported

Additional preferential criteria

  • Education and/or expertise in the broad field of postcolonial studies or cognate area
  • Previous employment in a similar role

For more information about this position contact Melinda Hinkson, Director of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies and Convening Editor of Postcolonial Studies, [email protected] using the subject line: Managing Editor, Postcolonial Studies enquiry via EthicalJobs.

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