Inventio Section Co-Editors Kairos Position Announcement (2024)

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is seeking applications for Inventio Section Co-Editors. We have two immediate openings for the position of Inventio Section Co-Editors at Kairos, a refereed online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy. Inventio is a peer-reviewed section focusing on the decisions, contexts, and contributions that authors make while designing a webtext. Recent Inventio webtexts present multimodal scholarship on digital dance performance, weaving and Indigenous sovereignties, podcasting a Creative-Commons licensed textbook, and composing with proprietary authoring platforms.

Both editorial positions are volunteer and require 3–5 hours/week of work on average. Benefits include insight into the unique collaborative editorial workflows of a leading international scholarly journal, a stronger sense of disciplinary community, editorial pride, work that counts as either service or research or both (depending on your institution), professional development opportunities for potential advancement through the editorial ranks, beverages of your choice at f2f conferences, and a letter of recommendation or tenure letter.

Kairos’s Inclusivity Action Plan and most recent DEI Committee Annual Report show how the journal works to value difference, equity, and inclusion in all its processes. Candidates from underrepresented backgrounds as well as those who want to conduct research and/or teaching related to this position’s responsibilities are especially encouraged to apply.

Duties

Successful candidates will work relatively independently with their Inventio co-editor (with training and guidance from the journal's senior editorial team) to produce production-ready webtexts with authors for the spring and fall issues of Kairos. Duties include:

  • Soliciting submissions and guiding potential contributors with early development of both focus and design
  • Mentoring contributors at developmental and revision stages of their webtexts
  • Performing initial reviews of Inventio submissions
  • Providing feedback to authors
  • Consistently getting at least one author’s webtext to publication annually
  • Drafting author correspondence
  • Collaborating closely with a co-editor on a vision for the section
  • Collaborating with the editors, managing editor, and other section editors
  • Performing brief, collaborative Tier 1 peer reviews on a monthly basis for webtexts submitted to other sections of the journal, which assists with cross-journal knowledge and creation of more cohesive issues
  • Proofreading webtexts in your and other sections of the journal on a set schedule, twice a year, after assistant editors have copy- and design-edited them
  • Co-writing documentation with other editors during annual doc sprints

Required Skills

  • Familiarity with Kairos's mission and scholarly vision
  • Working knowledge of scholarly fields related to digital writing studies
  • Ability to correspond efficiently and accurately with authors and other editors in several digital environments (e.g., email, Slack, wiki, Discord, Google Drive)
  • Functional knowledge/use of XHTML/CSS, web architecture, and FTP software
  • Attention to detail and keeping up with deadlines without prompting
  • Ability to synthesize feedback from editors into actionable suggestions for revision for authors
  • Basic proofreading, APA-style copy-editing, and usability-testing skills

Preferred Skills

  • Prior developmental or production-oriented editorial experience
  • Ability to read/edit/write HTML5 and CSS without a WYSIWYG
  • Troubleshooting Javascript functionality is a bonus

How To Apply

The deadline to apply is November 15, 2024. To be considered, please fill out the application form, which will ask for this information:

  • A letter of application that describes your qualifications for the position (2ish paragraphs, more or less)
  • A link to an online C.V. that includes relevant qualifications
  • The name, email address, and title/affiliation of a person willing to recommend you for the position

Questions about the position can be sent to Doug, Cheryl, and Michael at kairosrtp@gmail.com. Please include the position title in the subject line for queries. The position will start immediately upon hire and includes Kairos onboarding and training.