Reports to : Head of Research Integrity, Screening
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Springer Nature’s Editorial Excellence team is a central expert team that supports Springer Nature with research integrity, journal editorial policy, and indexing. Within the Editorial Excellence team, the research integrity teams prevent and address concerns about research integrity and other breaches of publication ethics. The Editorial Excellence team ensures editorial and publishing best practice by producing training and ‘self-help guides’ for in-house staff and external editorial partners; contributes to system and workflow development; audits processes and technologies; provides clear and defensible action plans for complicated cases; leads journals editorial policy; and manages abstracting and indexing .
The Research Integrity Screening team play s a critical role in the pre-publication screening of submissions to resolve all identified integrity concerns. The Team Lead , Research Integrity Screening is responsible for the training and development of multiple direct reports, managing the team ’ s workload and ensuring team efficiency, monitoring their performance and providing feedback, as well as delivering personal targets. The successful candidate embraces creativity and innovation and is open to new ideas that drive change .
Build effective team and drive engagement by fostering a culture of openness, transparency, collaboration, accountability, and inclusion within the team and across stakeholder groups. Develop talent within your team as well as yourself identifying and pursuing personal development plans.
Oversee the day-to-day operations of the Research Integrity Screening Specialist team, ensuring goal alignment with organizational objectives , and consistent adherence to research integrity standards and policies, standard operating procedures provided by the Head of Research Integrity Screening, and service level agreements.
Coordinate and manage a high volume of manuscript assessments, supporting the Screening Team’s prioritization efforts, leveraging resourcefulness , sound prioritization, strong judgement and decision quality to balance competing demands and manage complexity .
Ideal candidates will have a background in STEM or HSS, Lean Methodology certification, and some previous editorial or publishing experience.
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