We are looking for a Communications Assistant who will be able to support our editorial teams by contacting researchers and sending invitations to publish with our academic journals. The open position offers the opportunity to gain a basic understanding of the publishing procedure in an open-access environment involving different scientific journals. During the first six months, the successful candidate will go through a training process, mainly focused on assignments related to Call for Paper. After the probation period, the candidate will get the opportunity to take on additional assignments within the scope of the internal communication, and other tasks within the Marketing and Communications department.

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Responding to journal editors and using internal ticketing system to coordinate the sending of Call for Papers (invitations to authors for publishing in Special Issues)
• Performing quality checks on mailing lists and invitation letters to ensure compliance with internal standards
• Working with other team members in distributing the workload and dealing with a variety of requests
• Reporting issues and finding solutions in cooperation with IT developers
• Promotion and working on digital email marketing

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in social sciences (journalism, marketing, communications, philology, or related field)
• Great precision and attention to detail
• Self-motivated and proactive in dealing with new situations
• Good communication skills and ability to perform well in a team
• Proficiency in written and spoken English (B2 minimum)
• Working knowledge of MS Office (primarily Word and Excel)
• Basic knowledge of HTML and WordPress is a plus
• Interested to work in a young fast-developing publishing house

What we offer

• Contributing to the academic community
• Mentorship program and training opportunities for shaping and realizing your career goals in the scientific publishing industry
• Various opportunities for professional development in an international company
• Private health insurance & team building activities
• Flexible working hours
• FitPass
• Possibility to spend time abroad and collaborate with colleagues in other MDPI offices
• Working in a collaborative, diverse, and socially responsible team

If you are interested in this position, we look forward to receiving your complete application. Please submit your cover letter and CV. We look forward to welcoming you to our Belgrade office.

About MDPI

A pioneer in scholarly, open access publishing, MDPI has supported academic communities since 1996. Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, MDPI has the mission to foster open scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines.

We operate currently over 400 diverse, peer-reviewed, open-access journals supported by over 66,000 academic editors. We serve scholars from around the world to ensure the latest research is openly and broadly available.

Besides our main publishing business, we develop and maintain digital platforms and software ranging from scientific exchange platforms to article databases and search engines, all focused on empowering scholars and giving them the best possible product and service. As of the end of 2022, we count more than 6700 colleagues in 17 offices across 11 countries.

MDPI Serbia was established in 2016 to support the rapid global expansion of MDPI. Over the course of 8 years, we opened 2 offices in Belgrade (Zvezdara and New Belgrade) and 1 additional office in Novi Sad. We now have over 600+ employees in our 3 Serbian offices, dedicated to ensuring that high-quality research is made available as quickly as possible in different fields of science.

Initiatives

At MDPI, we develop and maintain various platforms in order to better serve the scientific community. Please find here-below a list of our main platforms:

https://www.mdpi.com/ 

https://sciprofiles.com/ 

https://sciforum.net/ 

https://www.scilit.net/ 

https://www.preprints.org/ 

https://encyclopedia.pub/