Jobs at AAAS

The Senior Editor will oversee Perspectives in biology, edit commentary, manage peer-review, collaborate with multimedia teams, and engage with the scientific community.

Support finance system maintenance, configuration, and user access; perform data analysis, reconciliation, ETL best-practice checks, audit documentation, and vendor coordination to resolve finance-system issues and support implementations.

Manage manuscript processing for 1-2 Deputy Editor groups from submission through publication. Serve as primary contact for editors, authors, and reviewers; handle submissions, appeals, reviewer reminders, editorial inquiries, and coordinate with internal staff and vendors. Participate in meetings and may write captions, image blurbs, social posts, and review galley proofs with tenure.

Develop and execute marketing programs to attract high-quality manuscript submissions and boost engagement across five peer-reviewed journals. Coordinate email campaigns, webinars, conferences, and outreach with editorial, publishing, sales, and marketing teams. Analyze submissions, usage, and campaign performance to inform strategy and support journal growth and reputation.

Support high-volume weekly journal production by proofreading author corrections, approving final publication files, communicating with authors, editors, and vendors, processing post-publication corrections, and coordinating internal staff to keep manuscripts on schedule.

Full-time 6-month paid internship writing daily 600–800-word news stories and longer magazine pieces about science and science policy. Interns report to the Online News Editor, may pitch stories, work to tight deadlines, and potentially travel for on-site reporting or scientific meetings. Role involves writing for a broad audience and producing journalism clips as application materials.

Support execution of integrated marketing campaigns, manage HTML email creation and reporting, coordinate conferences/events, maintain marketing assets and CRM data, track performance metrics and dashboards, assist webinars, and provide administrative and project support to marketing, sales, editorial, and external vendors.

Prepare weekly embargoed tip sheets and press packages for Science Advances; liaise with authors, press officers, and journalists; recruit and format multimedia; track articles and media coverage metrics; coordinate with editorial and production teams.