PURPOSE OF ROLE

This role involves coordinating and administering two academic journals and maintaining the catalogue and metadata of ODI Global’s eLibrary (ODI Global’s institutional repository).The post holder will co-ordinate and administer Disasters, a major quarterly journal reporting on all aspects of disaster studies, policies and management and Development Policy Review (DPR), a leading academic journal in international development, in existence since 1966. S/he will be responsible for ensuring the smooth functioning of both journals, enhancing the journals’ reputations as leading international titles in their respective fields, and boost their profiles in order to attract the highest quality article submissions. In addition, the post holder will maintain the ODI Global’s eLibrary catalogue and register DOIs and metadata with Crossref.