Head of Publications

You lead the editorial team: you take every text from submission to publication, in English and French, and launch YouthShare’s new formats.

Read the full role description on our website: full role description

HOW TO APPLY: PLEASE READ

You can apply here on Idealist, but you must also apply on our website, even if you have already sent your application on Idealist. On the website you present your background, attach your CV and receive your application reference by email.

Apply on our website: apply for this role on youthshareinitiatives.org

THE ROLE AT A GLANCE

• Level: Lead

• Time: 6 to 10 hours a week

• Commitment: at least one year, fully voluntary role

• Location: fully remote, from any country

• Languages: English or French, ideally both

• Applications open until 31 January 2027. This listing may close earlier, as soon as the right person is found.

• Role page: youthshareinitiatives.org

TWO MONTHLY MEETINGS

As a Lead, you take part in two meetings every month. You must be able to align your team around shared goals and to organise and run its meetings.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The editorial team turns a text into a publication in both of the site’s languages: checks, two readings by members of the editorial board, translation, layout. It is preparing new formats: research notes, reports and lab news items.

YOUR ASSIGNMENTS

• Lead the editorial team, reporting to the association’s editorial director

• Run the editorial board’s two-reader review: assigning texts, deadlines, reminders, summaries of opinions

• Coordinate translation into French and into English with the team’s translators

• Set the publication calendar with the labs, the communication team and the YouthShare newsletter

• Launch the new formats: research notes, reports and lab news items, each with its own template and review process

• Build external reviews of research notes and reports into the publication process, with the Research, Quality and Impact Lead

• Welcome and train new team members: editorial board, translation, sub-editing

• Report to the editorial director: publications released, deadlines, questions to settle

PROFILE WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Editorial experience: writing, editing, a journal, a student paper or a publishing house

• Excellent writing in English or French, and a good reading knowledge of the other language

• A sense of organisation, deadlines and decision-making

• High standards for texts and respect for authors

• Experience leading a team

NICE TO HAVE

• Knowledge of academic publishing practice: peer review, citation, licensing

• Experience of bilingual publishing or translation

• Hands-on use of Claude or ChatGPT in editorial work

WHAT THIS ROLE GIVES YOU

• Leading a bilingual, international editorial team

• Launching new publication formats, a strong story for interviews

• A seat on YouthShare’s coordination team

A VOLUNTEER ROLE, OPEN TO YOUNG PEOPLE

Every role we offer is fully voluntary. The experience we ask for can come from a course, a student project, an internship, volunteering or a personal project: every skill counts, wherever you gained it. We weigh your motivation and potential as carefully as your track record.

HOW SELECTION WORKS

• Online application on our website: apply online

• Profile review: the Talent team reads every application and sends a first reply by email within three days on average.

• Video interview: a conversation to get to know each other and shape the assignment together.

• Decision and arrival: our answer by email, then a welcome to the team and access to its tools.

If you need an adjustment to apply or to take part in an interview, write to hr@youthshareinitiatives.org

ABOUT YOUTHSHARE INITIATIVES

YouthShare Initiatives is an international think-action tank and a French non-profit (Act of 1 July 1901). It brings young people from around the world together in five labs to think together, then act: research, debate, mentoring and foresight. Discover us: youthshareinitiatives.org

APPLY ON OUR WEBSITE (REQUIRED, EVEN IF YOU APPLIED ON IDEALIST)

• Apply for this role

• Read the full role description

• See all our open roles

RÉSUMÉ EN FRANÇAIS

Responsable éditorial·e des publications : Vous dirigez le pôle éditorial : vous menez chaque texte de la soumission à la publication, en français et en anglais, et lancez les nouveaux formats.

Poste bénévole, à distance, pour au moins un an · 6 à 10 h par semaine. Candidatures jusqu'au 31 janvier 2027.

En tant que lead, vous participez à deux réunions par mois : vous devez savoir fédérer votre équipe et organiser ses réunions.

Même si vous postulez sur Idealist, vous devez aussi postuler sur notre site : postuler sur youthshareinitiatives.org

Fiche de poste en français : lire la fiche