Ethics and Integrity Publisher

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join our vibrant and supportive Journals Editorial team in the Academic division as an Ethics & Integrity Publisher. In this new role, you will be working closely with the Executive Publisher, Ethics & Integrity, supporting all aspects of OUP’s journals ethics operations to enhance OUP’s standing as a leader in scholarly publishing.

The key responsibilities in this role will include:

• Working closely with the Executive Publisher, an existing Publisher, and the volunteer Ethics team members to bring cases of potential publication misconduct to satisfactory resolution.
• Providing guidance to internal and external stakeholders on how to investigate potential cases of misconduct in alignment with industry standards and best practices.
• Supporting the creation of communications for use by internal and external stakeholders in relation to ethical investigations.
• Preparing public responses (e.g. correction notices) in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Supporting the development of training resources on ethics and integrity for use by internal and external stakeholders.
• Promoting best practices in handling ethical matters, including correspondence with authors, institutional ethics committees, and whistleblowers.
• Supporting the development and adoption of new policy positions and procedures, in collaboration with the Executive Publisher.
• Working with the Journals Product team on priority trust & integrity projects, including tracking and reporting on ethics cases in OUP-published journals.
• Maintaining existing procedures to ensure guidance is thorough, efficient, and reflects current industry standards and best practices, as well as creating and supporting the roll out of new procedures for emerging ethics issues across OUP’s portfolio.
• Working with the Executive Publisher, engage with industry experts and organisations to help establish new guidance for emerging ethics issues.

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will ideally have:

• Demonstrable understanding of academic publishing – including issues of research integrity and publication ethics, editorial and production processes, systems, competitors, and technology is essential.
• Experience with relevant guidelines and workflows (such as those maintained by ICMJE and COPE) and an understanding of relevant software and tools (such as ScholarOne and iThenticate) is desirable.
• Critical-thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills and the ability to influence, persuade, and negotiate with both internal and external parties.
• Ability to work under pressure and independently with an understanding of how to work cross-functionally and when to involve key stakeholders.

Benefits

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.

This role comes with the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment.

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