Current vacancies
Editorial Assistant/ Administrator (Ref: GDP/EA)
Help create the UK’s largest guide of events and entertainment listings.
Your editorial and administrative skills will help to make Global DataPoint an indispensable source for what’s on and where it’s happening all over the UK.
The position will involve editorial administrative duties, proofreading, copywriting, events research, taking email and telephone enquiries and liaising with an offshore data entry team.
The successful candidate will be enthusiastic and highly motivated, have excellent communication, editorial and IT skills, work well in a team environment, be highly organised, have an interest in events and entertainment and show an excellent attention to detail.
Previous editorial/administrative experience and an in-depth knowledge of London events are essential. Applicants should be aware that this position is largely administrative, although there is scope for development.
Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting job reference to: Recruitment, SNG, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4LB, or by email to: jobs@sciencenow.com.
Science Navigation Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer
Editorial Assistant (Ref: F1000/EA)
Faculty of 1000 (www.f1000.com), the award-winning literature evaluation service for the Medical and Life Sciences communities, is looking for an Editorial Assistant to liaise with top-level research scientists, medics and clinicians.
The role will be based in central London and will involve contacting internationally renowned biological and medical researchers, medics and clinicians by email and over the telephone in order to commission new authors for the service, and editing short pieces in all of Biology and Medicine for online publication. The successful candidate will be a life-sciences/biomedical graduate with a natural ability to communicate concepts clearly and enthusiastically. They should also be organised, possess excellent oral and written communication skills, show a high level of accuracy and demonstrate an ability to effectively prioritise tasks.
Please send your CV and covering letter, stating salary expectations and quoting job reference to: Recruitment, SNG, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4LB, or by email to: jobs@sciencenow.com.
Science Navigation Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer
Senior Java Developer (Ref: F1000/SD)
The Science Navigation Group seeks a talented, self-motivated software developer to work in a team on Internet related publishing solutions. The successful candidate should exhibit a keen willingness to work with others, have the initiative to take responsibility for their own duties when necessary and generally have an interest in technology and the Internet.
Faculty of 1000 (www.f1000.com) is the innovative on-line literature review service that covers all areas of Biology and Medicine.
Must haves:
- Strong Java (Java 5 or Java 6)
- Spring 2.5/3 (including Spring MVC)
Desirables:
- Agile methodologies (Scrum, TDD/BDD)
- Apache Tomcat 5 or newer
- Apache Solr / Apache Lucene
- Apache Velocity
- Groovy/Grails
- Hibernate
- JavaScript/AJAX
- jQuery
- Junit, Mockito, Cucumber
- Maven
- XSLT
Candidates should have a strong university qualification and excellent A-levels or equivalent.
Please send your CV and covering letter quoting the job reference, explaining briefly your interest in the post, when you would be able to start, and stating salary expectations to: Recruitment, SNG, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4LB, or by email to: jobs@sciencenow.com.
Science Navigation Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer
Digital Usage Analyst (Ref: WZ/DUA)
WoZZon, the UK’s number 1 event search service, and its sister company F1000, publisher of www.thescientist.com and a leading online service offering professional comment on biomedical research, are both expanding and need a Digital Analyst. The analyst will work across both companies to provide insights into our customers’ journeys online and on mobile. There will be day to day variety in this role because of the very different nature of each business, but both companies are part of the innovative and ground breaking Science Navigation Group.
The analyst will be responsible for the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data to help optimise usage and sign ups, and understand demographics, and behaviour patterns. He or she will also measure our AdWords, Adsense and SEO effectiveness, suggesting proposals to improve these.
The digital analyst will also advise on and set up tools to help us track marketing campaigns more easily.
As well as using digital tools to interpret usage, you will co-ordinate usability sessions to analyse user-behaviour at first hand.
Main Duties:
- Web usage analysis – tracking user behaviour on the woZZon and F1000 websites
- Mobile usage analysis - tracking user behaviour on the woZZon mobile internet and applications
- Identifying patterns and behaviour of users
- Supplying detailed usage and user-behavior reports to 3rd party advertisers and sponsors
- SEO analysis
- Presenting reports to marketing/product teams
- User interface analysis
- Co-ordination with developer teams to set up reporting tools
- Working to deadlines within strict time constraints
- Organising usability sessions
Personal Specification:
- Experience of web usage analytics and software
- Experience of usage analysis software
- Sound analytical skills and attention to detail
- SEO experience
- Good communication skills – presenting complex data in a visual style
- Experience of monitoring/measuring of mobile traffic is desirable
Please send your CV and covering letter quoting the job reference, explaining briefly your interest in the post, when you would be able to start, and stating salary expectations to: Recruitment, SNG, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4LB, or by email to: jobs@sciencenow.com.
Science Navigation Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer
Digital Product Manager (Ref: WZ/DPM)
WoZZon, the UK’s number 1 event search service, is expanding and needs a Digital Product Manager to manage our expanding set of web and mobile applications. These already include a Nokia Grand Prize winning mobile service, iPhone, Android and Blackberry apps, Facebook applications, and the most comprehensive online event search product in the UK. Plus we have ambitious plans to expand into new areas.
The Digital Product Manager will be responsible for the development of the sites and apps from beta phase to full commercial launch. You will review and propose new features and content for the site, deliver functional specifications, prioritise and schedule development work. The position also involves making user interface and design decisions to enhance the usability of woZZon products. Research and analysis of other sites, functionalities such as user generated content and social media will be necessary. The Digital Product Manager will work closely with the Managing Director to help to set and meet targets for numbers of users, repeat visits, user submissions, and usage length.
The role will co-ordinate across editorial and technical teams to collect requirements for product development and project manage internal resources to make sure that deadlines and targets are met. You will be able to call on a team of dedicated developers, and have one product co-ordinator for mobile and one for web assisting you. We also have a QA tester and digital usage analyst to help out.
The Digital Product Manager will also explore integration with other data and content providers.
We also want someone who, as well as these excellent organisational skills, will influence the products with their own knowledge, ideas and creativity.
Main Duties:
- Product development – features/functionality and content
- Scheduling and project management
- Analysis of other sites and web/mobile functionality
- User interface decisions based on usage analysis/feedback
- Writing and co-ordination specifications and bug fixes
- Working with offshore development teams
- Co-ordination with sales, editorial and technical teams
- Partnerships
Personal Specification:
- Product management
- Project management
- Strong understanding of mobile platforms (iPhone/Nokia/Android/BlackBerry)
- Planning and specification writing
- Knowledge of Visio, Bugzilla, and Photoshop a plus
- Working with data partners
- Good communication skills
- Good team management skills
Please send your CV and covering letter quoting the job reference, explaining briefly your interest in the post, when you would be able to start, and stating salary expectations to: Recruitment, SNG, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4LB, or by email to: jobs@sciencenow.com.
Science Navigation Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer
Summer Intern (Ref: F1000/SI)
F1000 is looking for two interns who wish to gain experience in scientific publishing. The main duty for the successful applicants will be to set up search strings for cluster searches for our Faculty Members based on their research areas, to help increase the number of evaluations.
The ideal candidate will be highly motivated, enthusiastic PhD or Masters students ideally in a Natural Sciences, Biology or BioMedical subject.
To apply please send you CV along with a short covering letter stating when you would be able to start and quoting the job reference (F1000/SI) to: Recruitment, Science Navigation Group, Middlesex House, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4LB, or by email to: jobs@sciencenow.com.
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