Job Description Summary:
This job, pay band 5, reports to the Senior Managing Editor. The Managing Editor, Publication Ethics, is a senior staff member responsible for managing all aspects of journal ethics and providing leadership and direction to the editorial team. Incumbent establishes, updates, and maintains the journal's scientific integrity policy and serves as a public spokesperson regarding ethics-related matters for PNAS; receives and evaluates instances of potential scientific misconduct as relates to manuscripts submitted to and/or published in PNAS; screens for potential ethics violations; and works with stakeholders to resolve ethics-related questions. This position requires a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion within the sciences.Job Description:
ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES:
- Serve as the journal ombudsman as relates to ethical questions and complaints
- Establish and revise policies and procedures related to ethical issues. Respond to inquiries regarding journal policy.
- Establish and maintain scientific standards for digital image manipulation screening
- Track, monitor, and train specialists screening for ethics violations
- Review and resolve prepublication image issues
- Receive and investigate reports of undisclosed conflicts of interest, image manipulation, or other ethical violations, including those related to diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Confer with scientific experts to rectify disagreements about data interpretation or access
- Manage ethics-related corrections and retractions as necessary
- Work with stakeholders to adjudicate any other ethical complaints or allegations
- Compiles ethics-related benchmarks and statistics
- Supervisory responsibilities may include one or more direct reports, including evaluating workload and assigning projects, preparing procedures for daily tasks, and providing leadership and mentoring employees.
- Forms effective teams and cultivates a work environment that fosters teamwork
COMPETENCIES:
- Planning & Executing Work (Ability to plan, analyze, design, develop, launch, measure and maintain work; uses appropriate tools to organize and collaborate; able to navigate through complexities and competing priorities; able to balance strategy and tactics appropriate for role.)
- Communication & Conflict Management (Communicates candidly and openly; uses language effectively; articulates ideas clearly. Demonstrates active listening skills and asks meaningful questions. Proven ability to also communicate effectively when confronted with difficult personalities and situations. Adjusts communication to meet needs of situation.)
- Decision Making / Problem Solving (Demonstrates consistent logic; rationality, and objectivity; anticipates consequences of actions; explores alternate approaches. Explores creative and win-win solutions. Demonstrates critical thinking and challenges convention.)
NONESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES
Related duties and special projects as assigned.
JOB SPECIFICATIONS
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Background in scientific peer-review procedures
- Ability to solve intellectual problems of appreciable variety and complexity, using latitude for independent judgment and action
- Ability to work successfully in a team environment and to form and maintain effective teams
- Ability to develop relationships with co-workers and employees in other National Academies’ departments through effective communication
- Excellent communication skills with proven ability to interact effectively with employees at all levels
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel
- Ability to work at a computer for extended periods of time
Minimum Education/Training Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree in English, Journalism, Communications, or related field, or equivalent knowledge.
Minimum Experience: Six years of related professional experience.
Physical Capabilities: Ability to work at a computer for extended periods of time.
Required Licenses, Certification or Registration: None.
Supervisory Responsibilities/Controls: Reports to Director. General direction is provided. Supervises staff and freelance personnel.
Compensation Range: The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine support equity, fairness, and transparency in our compensation programs. An estimated compensation range for this position is $88,450 - $121,620. Compensation offered to the selected candidate will be based on the candidate’s relevant knowledge, skills, and work experience, commensurate with compensation of current employees in comparable positions with similar knowledge, skills, and work experience, and subject to budget parameters. Note it is not typical for a candidate to be hired at the higher end of the range. This is a benefits-eligible position. Our Benefits Plan offers competitive and comprehensive benefit options, including medical, dental and vision insurance, life insurance, disability coverage, retirement and savings benefits, leave benefits such as paid holidays and paid personal leave, transportation subsidies, and education assistance. For more information, please click here.
Work Environment: This role has been approved for 100% remote status, with occasional travel between National Academies’ facilities and to off-site meeting/sponsor locations. Please note that The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is not an approved employer in all states, as such any remote work arrangement will need pre-approval.
The National Academies’ Statement on Diversity and Inclusion:
We, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies), value diversity among our staff, members, volunteers, partners, vendors, and audiences. We recognize that talent is broadly distributed in society and that many perspectives enhance the quality of our work and drive innovation and impact.
We pledge to cultivate a workplace culture and climate that promotes inclusion, belonging, accessibility, and anti-racism; upholds equity; and values the participation of all who are engaged in advancing our mission. By embracing the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion in our programs, institutional policies and practices, and products, we will be able to better advise the nation on the most complex issues facing society and the world.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
It is the policy of the National Academies to recruit, hire, transfer, compensate, and promote people in all job categories and to administer all other personnel actions, terms and conditions of employment in a manner that is consistent with equal employment, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, disability, medical condition for which a person has been rehabilitated or cured, marital status, family responsibilities, genetic information, political affiliation, personal appearance, matriculation, unemployment status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. It is also the institution's policy to recruit, hire, promote, and provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities and covered veterans who are otherwise qualified.
Any qualification to be considered equivalent, in lieu of stated minimum, requires the prior approval of the Office of Human Resources.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. Some functions in this description may be specific to a particular unit of the National Academies and not applicable to other units.
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