Senior Editor – Publication Ethics

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🌐 United Kingdom, United States – Remote

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💵 £42k - £47k / year

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🟠 Senior

✏️ Editor

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PLOS

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51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

🔬 Science

Education • Non-profit • Science

PLOS is a non-profit organization on a mission to drive open science forward with measurable, meaningful change in research publishing, policy, and practice. Building on a strong legacy of pioneering innovation, PLOS continues to be a catalyst, reimagining models to meet open science principles, removing barriers and promoting inclusion in knowledge creation and sharing. They cover all scientific disciplines with a focus on fundamental and applied research across life, health, sustainability, engineering, and technology, ensuring that research outputs are rigorous, reliable, and accessible to all.

📋 Description

• Investigate and resolve publication ethics cases for all PLOS journals • Resolve cases efficiently in line with PLOS standards and COPE guidance • Provide timely support for others’ publication ethics casework • Address escalations and queries about publication ethics issues • Contribute to tasks, cases, documentation, and processes supporting team casework • Contribute to team-level and cross-functional ethics and integrity initiatives and projects • Develop workflows and policy updates • Develop, trial, and implement approaches to improve detection, prevention, and resolution of publication ethics cases • Support journal staff editors with ethics issues during manuscript handling, peer review, or post-publication • Communicate with journal editorial leads, Editorial Board members, authors, PLOS teams, and other stakeholders • Participate in internal discussions about publication ethics and research integrity • Maintain awareness of cross-industry issues and initiatives and attend COPE Forums during working hours • Help recruit and onboard team members • Train staff on publication ethics case management and standards • Provide training and feedback to Publication Ethics team members • Uphold professionalism in internal and external communications

🎯 Requirements

• Applications accepted from candidates based in the UK or FL, IL, MA, MD, NY, PA, TX, VA • Master’s degree or PhD (or equivalent) in a scientific discipline • Experience in an editorial or publication ethics role in science, technical, and medical (STM) publishing • First-hand experience resolving publication ethics cases in STM publishing • Demonstrated aptitude for critically evaluating scientific articles or publication ethics issues • Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills • Highly organized, efficient self-starter with excellent attention to detail • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills • Familiarity with peer review, publishing, editorial decision-making, and publication ethics issues and standards • Prior experience investigating and resolving publication ethics cases • Knowledge of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) standards and guidance • Commitment to open access and research integrity • Ability to work collaboratively with a remote team • Some flexibility to work across time zones • Preferred: expertise in image forensics and experience delivering trainings • Preferred: post-graduate research experience in a scientific, clinical, or social sciences discipline

🏖️ Benefits

• Private medical insurance • Life assurance • Income protection • Personal accident insurance • Pension with up to 10% employer match • 25 days holidays • Market competitive Maternity and Paternity leave • Birthday and three winter holidays days off • 2 days paid time off for volunteering per year • Fully remote work environment with stipend on joining for home office • 12 month FTC position