Niranjan Jha Email & Phone Number

India

Puducherry, India

Puducherry, India

Assisting the Vice President/Sr Vice President in setting up and managing a team of copy editors/vendors/freelancers/proofreaders - both onshore and offshore - for managing a very renowned publisher.Heading the Editorial Services which consists of:1. Indexing2. Pre-editing3. Copyediting4. Editorial proofreading

Puducherry, India

Heading the Editorial Division of the company. As an editorial head, the major expectation from this role is to ensure the utmost client satisfaction with the best quality and unparallel schedule adherence.

New Delhi, Delhi, India

Roles & Responsibilities:• Overseeing the editorial division which was responsible to help SAGE publish more than 150 academic books a year, apart from supporting its UK/US division to help in major works.• Hiring and grooming a team of more than 15 editors and a pool of vendors/freelancers to ensure that the editorial production of the three major book imprints of SAGE - Academic, Textbooks, and Retail (mostly humanities and social sciences) - flows seamlessly.• Determining new ways of implementing editorial and content methodologies• Applying quantitative techniques and auditing the quality and effectiveness of editorial• Managing the recruitment and hiring process of editors• Managing the aspirations of the editors• Ensuring training and other administrative needs of editors• Stage-wise tracking of projects (both journals and books)• Preparing weekly/fortnightly/monthly reports on the productivity, quality, and schedule• Editing/reviewing any new sample or project for the societies and institutions• Ensuring that the team makes timely payments to vendors and/or freelancers

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

To provide the copyediting/language services in the following subject areas: o Medicineo Surgeryo Dentistryo Muscle, Bone and Physical & Sports Medicineo Nanotechnologyo Molecular Biologyo Clinical Scienceso Immunology

Uk

Roles & Responsibilities:As an Assistant Manager (August 2009–March 2014) managed a team of 25 editors and technical editors:• Hiring and training editors• Managing freelancers• Creating weekly/monthly/annual reports• Understanding the customer's requirements and addressing their issues, if any• Preparing CAPA• Attending customers' calls and meetingsAs a Sr. Copy Editor (May 2007–2009)• Looking after the training of a new copy editor• Editing of Monthly Notices on the Royal Society of London and American Geophysical Union Apart from these, ensuring the editing of the following journals:Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: LettersJournal of Physics Condensed MatterJournal of Physics A: Mathematical and TheoreticalJournal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical PhysicsJournal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle PhysicsPhysics in Medicine and BiologyMeasurement Science and TechnologyAstrophysical Journal LettersAstronomical JournalPhysical Review LettersPhysiological MeasurementEuropean Journal of PhysicsSemiconductor Science and TechnologyAs a Copy Editor (April 2004–2007)• Editing the projects of Institute of Physics Publishing, UK, and American Astrophysical Society journals, UK

More of a content-developing job. Was involved in editing the matter related to Information Technologies and Services.

Ma (English), English Literature

Journalism And Mass Communication, A+