The Egypt Exploration
Society
3 Doughty Mews, London WC1N 2PG
Phone: +44 (0)207 242 1880
Fax: +44 (0)207 404 6118
E-mail: application@ees.ac.uk
www.ees.ac.uk
Recruitment information ‐ Publications Manager
The UK’s leading Egyptological organisation, the Egypt Exploration Society, is looking for an enthusiastic and wellorganised Publications Manager to play a pivotal role within the team.
You will be an integral member of the London office staff, managing the Society’s print and online publications,
overseeing the commissioning and peer review process, editing and typesetting content and ensuring publication
on schedule and within budget, and working with the Director to steer their future direction. You will work closely
with authors and editors to ensure that content is produced to a high quality and in a timely manner.
This is an excellent opportunity to join an organisation with a rich history which has recently undergone a series of
changes to prepare it for the challenges ahead. The successful candidate will be working within a friendly,
passionate and energetic small team; they therefore must be a team player. They will enjoy a busy office
environment and a varied and challenging working day, and will need to have experience of academic and
production editing, preferably for an academic or public-facing membership organisation. A postgraduate degree
in Egyptology or archaeology or a relevant field is also highly desirable. You will, ideally, be familiar with typesetting
software such as Adobe InDesign and will have experience of the print production process. A background in
managing a website and/or producing content for the web, and knowledge of written French and German is also
desirable.
If you consider yourself to be an organised and enthusiastic team player with the ability to deal with multiple tasks
then please apply directly.
About the Society
The Egypt Exploration Society is the leading UK organisation for archaeological fieldwork and research in Egypt and
has an international membership of professional Egyptologists and interested members of the public. The Society is
a registered charity and is funded principally by members’ subscriptions and donations. The Society maintains
London and Cairo offices and organizes events for members and the general public throughout the UK, in Egypt
and elsewhere. The London Office houses an extensive library and its archive of excavation records dating back to
the late nineteenth century. It is also used to host smaller educational and social events. The Cairo Office houses a
small members’ library located within the British Council buildings, which is also the venue for our Cairo events.
The Society’s current research strategy focuses on landscape development, environmental change and human
interaction in the Nile Delta and Valley, including the Sudan. The current research projects range from excavation at
major Delta sites, surveying the ancient capital of Memphis and mapping the changing river course at ancient
Thebes, to text‐based and archive research. The Society works closely with the Egyptian Ministry of State for
Antiquities (MSA) and is currently engaging with international partners to support and fund excavations and
surveys at many other sites. We are fully committed to advancing knowledge and public awareness of the history
and cultures of Egypt and its neighbouring countries (to AD 1900) and achieve this through our programme of
publications and other educational activities.
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The post of Publications Manager is new and has been created following a comprehensive organisational review
undertaken in 2012 by the Director and Board of Trustees. Under the new arrangements the Society will employ five
full‐time staff in London, including the Director, and one in Cairo.
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Job Description
Job title: Publications Manager
Reports to: Director
Purpose
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Work with the Director to devise an annual schedule for the production of the Society's Memoirs and be
responsible for their delivery on schedule and within budget
Be responsible for the production of one volume of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (JEA), one volume
of the Graeco-Roman Memoirs, two issues of Egyptian Archaeology (EA) and a certain number, to be agreed
with the Director, of Excavation and other Memoirs per year, on schedule and within budget, and to the
required standards of production and academic editing
Work with the Director to develop a long-term strategy for the dissemination of the results of the Society's
research in print and electronically
Work with the Director to ensure that all academic content across the Society's Memoirs, serial publications
and website is coordinated to ensure the appropriate balance of EES research and complementary, non-EES
research and other general material, and provision for all the Society's audiences
Work as part of the overall team to ensure continuity of outputs in the event of the temporary absence of
colleagues
Principal tasks
Excavation and other Memoirs (http://www.ees.ac.uk/excavation-memoirs.html)
 Work with the Society's authors and any contracted production editors, proof readers etc. to ensure the
delivery of planned Memoirs on schedule and within budget
 Work with the Director to devise an annual schedule for the production of the Society's Memoirs and be
responsible for their delivery on schedule and within budget
 Work with the Director and Research Committee to ensure that Memoirs arising from current fieldwork
projects are built into the schedule alongside 'backlog' Memoirs
 Undertake production editing on a certain number of Memoirs as aged with the Director and make
arrangements for the remaining planned volumes to be produced by external contractors
The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (http://www.ees.ac.uk/publications/journal-egyptian-archaeology.html)
 To receive manuscripts submitted for publication in JEA and oversee the academic editing process:
 To liaise with the other members of the editorial board to provide initial acceptance or other response, to
identify and make arrangements for suitable specialists to provide peer-reviews
 To copy-edit and set to page all text and illustrations and to produce digital files ready in time for the
volume to be printed and distributed on schedule
 To monitor monies received and fees paid for the downloading of older JEA articles by members and others
via JSTOR
The Graeco-Roman Memoirs (http://www.ees.ac.uk/graeco-roman-memoirs.html)
 To liaise with the Oxyrhynchus Papyri Management Committee and General Editors of the series to ensure
that each annual volume is produced on time and within budget.
Egyptian Archaeology: The Bulletin of the EES (http://www.ees.ac.uk/publications/egyptian-archaeology.html)
 To liaise with the Editor of Egyptian Archaeology to ensure that each is produced on time and within
budget.
Online
 To build and maintain an offline library of EES publications available in digital format from which to draw
content for the website
 To manage the ‘research’ pages of the Society’s website, maintaining them as the starting point for
research into the Society’s current and past projects and a platform for accessing a limited amount of
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scientific content, and indices, bibliographies etc. guiding the researcher to further published and
unpublished material
To use the EES website as an alternative platform for publishing EES ‘content’ including material, by
uploading articles etc. already published elsewhere by the Society e.g. articles in JEA or EA, and also original
material.
The Publications Manager is expected to carry out all such additional duties as are reasonably commensurate with
the role. This post is self‐servicing.
Person Specification
The following is a person specification, based upon the above job description.
Essential
 Postgraduate degree in Egyptology,
archaeology or related discipline with an
Egyptological content
 Experience of academic editing and production
editing in an academic context
 Familiarity with use of social media, experience
Desirable
 Experience of managing staff
of working with web‐sites, etc.
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Experience of working in the non‐profit sector
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Experience of working on archaeological
projects in Egypt
Record of publication on Egyptological topics in
academic or popular journals.
Member of the EES (past or present) or cognate
organisation
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Proven track record of public engagement
Experience of working with budgets
Experience of monitoring and evaluation
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
‐ written and oral
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Proven ability to work well within a team
Cultural sensitivity
Excellent IT skills
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Self‐motivated, organised and able to prioritise
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Flexible and enthusiastic
Terms of Employment
This is a full‐time post, based in the Society’s London Office. The successful applicant will be responsible to the
Director and will be appointed on a two-year, fixed-term contract basis with a six‐month probationary period.
Salary: £24-28,000 pa, payable by monthly instalments.
Pension: The Society will contribute 5% of the gross salary to the Publications Manager’s pension following the
six‐month probationary period, on condition that the employee makes a contribution of 3%.
Notice Period: One calendar month
Application Process
An application form can be downloaded at www.ees.ac.uk and must be returned by e‐mail to
application@ees.ac.uk. Do not include a covering letter or a CV as only the form will be considered by the selection
panel. If you would like to discuss the post further on an informal basis, please contact the Director, Dr Chris
Naunton: chris.naunton@ees.ac.uk.
The closing date for applications is 5pm (GMT) on Friday 15 March 2013. First interviews for short‐listed candidates
will be held at the Society’s London Offices during the last week of March or the first week of April 2013.
Candidates will also be required to take a short written exercise prior to the interviews.
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