MANDEL CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

Nonprofit Management and Leadership

Editor Search

The Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Case Western Reserve University seeks an editor for its journal, Nonprofit Management and Leadership. Now entering its 19th year of publication, NML is committed both to academic excellence and to advancing creative interaction between rigorous research and engaged practice.

The new editor, who will have earned significant distinction in the field of nonprofit management and leadership, will lead NML as it responds to rapid changes in its field and seeks to raise its profile among researchers and practitioners. The editor must hold a Ph.D. in a relevant academic discipline, have extensive experience in evaluating and working with research manuscripts and their authors, be able to work effectively with journal staff and editorial board, and manage journal operations efficiently.

The editorship of NML is a renewable three-year, part-time appointment of the Mandel Center. The editor might be based at an academic or, possibly, research institution anywhere in the U.S. or abroad. The editorial offices of Nonprofit Management and Leadership are located in the Mandel Center’s building on the campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio; the publisher, under a contract with the Mandel Center, is Jossey-Bass/Wiley. The editor reports to the Executive Director of the Mandel Center, and works closely with the Managing Editor in the editorial offices, with the journal’s Editorial Board and its advisory groups, and with the Mandel Center’s faculty. Subject to final agreement, the Mandel Center expects that the editor will spend at least a few days at CWRU each year, both for NML editorial meetings and to engage with the Mandel Center’s faculty and students.

The Mandel Center will provide the editor an appropriate stipend, to be determined, as well as essential expenses—and, as noted above, will continue to provide NML’s primary editorial offices and the highly experienced Managing Editor.

Search Committee

An Editor Search Committee has been established, chaired by David C. Hammack, Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Case Western Reserve University. Committee members include Kirsten Grønbjerg, Center on Philanthropy, Indiana University; F. Ellen Netting, School of Social Work, Virginia Commonwealth University; Jodi Sandfort, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota; and Steven Rathgeb Smith, Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington.

Application Process

Please submit the names of potential applicants to the Committee at NMLjournal@case.edu.

Self-nominations are encouraged. Applications should include:

• A letter of application, indicating the level of support the applicant’s employer will provide for the editor’s office space, equipment, and partial release from instructional duties or other obligations, support for a graduate assistant, etc.

• A full curriculum vitae, including a list of publications and past editorial experience

Committee deliberations will begin on May 15, 2008; later applications will be considered. The Committee will interview finalists via videoconference and will make its recommendations to the Mandel Center’s Executive Director, who will announce the new editor in late October 2008. The editor’s three-year term will begin on January 1, 2009.

If you have further questions about the journal (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/104049461) or the editorship, please contact:

David Hammack, Search Committee Chair, David.Hammack@case.edu, 216-368-2671

Kathleen Mills, Managing Editor, Kathleen.Mills@case.edu, 216-368-2315