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Managing Editor

Job Group: Communications and Marketing
Job Subgroup: Writing and Editing
Salary Range (Annual): Scaled (expand for details)
Employee Category: Academic Staff
Job Code: CM035
  • Job Summary:
    Sets and enforces quality standards for written materials by directing editorial, administrative, and production processes for publications. May coordinate the work of an editorial team or manage the work of writing and/or editing professionals.
  • Job Responsibilities:
    • Edits, revises, and proofreads materials and resolves errors or inconsistencies in style, syntax, grammar, and format
    • Develops and enforces production phase deadlines and oversees editorial staff operational work plans and assignments
    • Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
    • Monitors the unit or program budget and approves unit expenditures
    • Implements and monitors tracking system for manuscripts and publications to notify authors of publishing updates as needed
  • Education:
    Bachelor's Degree Preferred Minimum
  • FLSA Status:
    Exempt
  • Institution Job:
    No
  • Required Supervisory Duty of at Least 2.0 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Employees:
    Yes
  • Employee Category:
    Academic Staff
  • Scaled Job:
    Yes
  • Salary Range (Annual):
    • 25: $70,100-143,330
    • 24: $63,800-130,240 (B)
    • 23: $58,000-118,360 (C)
  • Job Code:
    • CM035: Managing Editor
    • CM057: Managing Editor (B)
    • CM065: Managing Editor (C)
  • Link directly to this job title: https://hr.wisc.edu/standard-job-descriptions/?q=CM035

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