Digital Publishing Specialist
Academic Professional
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Position Available: This position is available as soon as possible. This is a 100% time, permanent, twelve-month appointment Academic Professional position in the University Library.
Responsibilities: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks an innovative, proactive, collaborative, and motivated professional excited about advancing experimental and open forms of publication in the position of Digital Publishing Specialist. Reporting to the Head of Scholarly Communications and Publishing, the Digital Publishing Specialist will provide the Library’s Scholarly Communications and Publishing Unit with outreach, project management, and production workflow support as part of the Library’s effort to offer high quality, open access publishing services to the Urbana-Champaign campus and beyond. The Specialist will initially also participate in the Andrew W. Mellon-funded “Publishing Without Walls” initiative (https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/256174).
This position administers the day-to-day coordination and completion of digital publishing projects, including tasks such as document modeling and text-structure cleanup processes. The incumbent will interact with other members of the Scholarly Communication and Publishing team, Library IT, and the Scholarly Communication and Repository Services team, and will, in collaboration with the unit head and the research programmer, troubleshoot and streamline digital publishing production workflows. She or he will also assist in developing new publishing projects, and exercise independent professional judgment in working with authors, editors, and other stakeholders in the development of particular publications and broader publishing operations. The incumbent leads instruction on digital publishing skills and technologies with partners in the Library and across campus. (more…)