Call for AJE Editor-in-Chief

Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Call for Applications: Editor-in-Chief

 American Journal of Evaluation

Application Deadline: December 15, 2022

The American Journal of Evaluation is a leading resource for scholarship on evaluation theory, methods, and practice. The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the journal’s direction and mission, including soliciting articles, overseeing the peer-review process, making editorial decisions, and editing submissions in a timely manner. The Editor-in-Chief leads and manages a diverse editorial board, team of associate editors and interacts with the SAGE Publications production editorial team. She or he will collaborate with the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and the journal’s publisher to maintain the journal’s longstanding excellence and increase its visibility, readership, impact, and relevance to evaluation professionals and scholars.

The Editor-in-Chief will reflect AEA’s values and ends goals through its operations and content. The Editor-in-Chief is appointed by the AEA Board of Directors for a 3-year term, which may be renewed following a satisfactory review of annual performance.

The Editor-in-Chief is a compensated position, and a stipend will be provided to support a part-time managing editor, who will be selected by the Editor-In-Chief.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Operate and manage the peer review system, Manuscript Central/Scholar One;
• Manage journal operations, including but not limited to ensuring editors follow through on assigned responsibilities and oversee stewardship of page budgets;
• Ensure the review process occurs consistently and operates with integrity;
• Represent the journal at appropriate conferences and venues;
• With the Managing Editor, accept and reject  proposals and manuscripts based on their quality and suitability for AJE;
• Oversee revisions;
• Work with the Publisher on production matters;
• With the Managing Editor, ensure that the journal’s processes and content align with the mission, vision, and values of the American Evaluation Association.
• Communicate with AEA President and Executive Director to keep them appraised of any significant changes occurring with the Journal.

Term:

• Three (3) years, beginning  January 1, 2023

Criteria:

• AEA Member for at least five (5) years;
• Earned Doctorate degree in evaluation related field;
• Senior or mid-career evaluation scholar with demonstrated deep appreciation for the distinctive and diverse nature of evaluation’s theory, methods, and practice and for the breadth and heterogeneity of the profession and its scholarship;
• Demonstrated record of academic and evaluation accomplishments including a record of peer-reviewed publications on evaluation;
• Strong working knowledge of the editorial process as an editor, associate or assistant editor, or editorial board member;
• Experience as an effective manager and leader;
• It is preferred that the applicant will have an institutional home that agrees to provide the applicant with needed accommodations to ordinary duties in order to fulfill the role of Editor-in-Chief.

Application Deadline:

Application materials must be submitted by December 15, 2022 to AEA’s Executive Director, Anisha Lewis (alewis@eval.org).  Packets must include a cover letter that addresses the applicant’s qualifications for the role and describes the institutional support available to fulfill it, a curriculum vita, and the names and contact information for three references who can speak to the applicant’s ability to perform the required editorial duties. Applicants are strongly encouraged to provide evidence of institutional support for fulfilling the role of Editor-in-Chief, given the substantial commitment of time required to edit a prestigious scholarly journal like AJE. Applications will be reviewed by a Publications Task Force and an appointment will be made by the Board of Directors.