Associate Research Integrity Adviser

Job Title: Associate Research Integrity Adviser

Location(s): Pune      

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Roles Responsibilities

• Supporting the Springer Nature Research Integrity Group to drive research integrity queries towards resolution.

• Familiarizing yourself with different types of research integrity and publication ethics concerns in order to be able to best process correspondence with stakeholders. 

• Provide best-practice advice and action plans for resolutions of cases to in-house staff and external editors.

• Ensuring your work complies with relevant Springer Nature policies, COPE guidelines and industry best practice. 

• Ability to triage and identify urgent matters, like potential legal threats and take appropriate action. 

• Managing your workload to meet targets, rapidly reprioritizing as urgent matters arise. 

• Proactively contributing to meetings and commit to completing actions assigned to you.

• Responsible for managing incoming correspondence with authors and other stakeholders, ensuring that all correspondence gets sorted and flagged appropriately.

• Preparing outgoing correspondence with authors and other stakeholders following instructions and templates. 

• Responsible for escalating certain queries to the Research Integrity Manager, Research Integrity Specialist or buddy  in the Research Integrity Group as appropriate.

• Tackling difficult situations through quick logical response and effective communication.

• Adhering to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)  provided by the Research Integrity Managers

• Actively providing feedback on SOPs to ensure continuous improvement.

Experience, skills and qualifications

Experience

2+ years

As Research integrity support coordinator

Preferred experience:3 to 4 years with a scholarly publisher

Qualification

Educated to graduate or postgraduate level.

Skills

• Strong communication (written and oral) skills and excellent English language skills;

• Familiarity with publication ethics and research integrity issues, and a passion for quality control;

• Quick learner and a logical thinker

• Will have to be flexible enough to learn new projects at a short notice

• Ability to establish effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders of any background, seniority or level of experience;

• A high level of computer literacy including knowledge of and experience with Office applications and Google Workspace.

• Excellent organizational, prioritization, analytical and time-management skills, with superior attention to detail;

• Positive and proactive approach to problem-solving and task management;

• Ability to work well under pressure.

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