Publication Ethics- Senior Editor, Team Manager

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Requirements:

• Considerable editorial experience in scientific or medical journals publishing
• Experience training staff is preferred
• Experience in investigating and auditing for issues involving potential manipulation of the publication process.

Responsibilities:

• Resolve publication ethics cases efficiently and in line with PLOS standards and COPE guidance; provide timely support for others’ publication ethics case work; liaise with Legal and Communications departments as needed for your and your reports’ cases; help respond to any COPE or Legal queries involving your or your reports’ cases; prevent reputational damage to PLOS journals as feasible.
• Together with the other Publication Ethics managers, contribute to team strategy development and implementation, prioritization and delegation of cases and projects, team retreat planning and delivery, and evaluation of efforts toward achieving team-level goals.
• Contribute as requested (may be in leading/responsible, advisory, contributor, or informed roles) to team-level and/or cross-functional initiatives and projects that address ethics and integrity needs at PLOS.