Research Integrity Assistant (Engineering) - Publishing Company
Contract: 12 Month Contract
Location: Remote
Salary: up to £225 per day, outside of IR35
SRG are working with a Leading British Publishing company to help them find a Research Integrity Assistant to join their busy team. This role is open to graduates with at least 1 or 2 job roles within the industry.
Key Responsibilities will include:
- Work closely with the team to drive research integrity investigations
- Check articles for integrity of authorship, content, data and key ethics statements.
- Assist the ethics team with contacting authors and assessing files requested from authors
- Where required, assist in identifying experts to provide advice on specific articles
- Work with the ethics team and editorial teams on organising post-publication notices.
- Handle confidential information confidently and sensitively, with consideration for the legal and ethical issues that may arise from any mishandling
Candidate Requirements:
- Research background in a relevant discipline.
- Editorial experience in assessing scientific manuscripts for quality and integrity of content.
- Experience as an Asst Editor / Editor / Managing Editor, ideally within a publishing house.
- PhD qualification (preferred, not essential); expertise in Engineering (but not chemical or bio-), including some relevant expertise in mathematics/physics in the last 10 years.
- Practical experience: last practical/hands-on research experience in the last 10 years such as PhD research, post-doc research, commercial experience linked to PhD.
- Editorial experience: previous editorial handling/content assessment; NOT copy editing/proof-reading
- Have experience or understanding of publishing ethics
Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.