Morgan Healey Retained Assignment
Location: East Coast, USA 
Salary: Excellent 

Only apply for this role if you have proven experience working with Governments and Institutions within Research or Academic publishing. 

Our client, a leading global STM publisher, requires a new President for North America. This role is primarily externally focused, effectively an ‘ambassador’ role. It is responsible for sustaining and enhancing the business presence in USA with a focus on growth, outreach and promotional mechanisms, engaging and influencing US government agencies, institutional leaders, and senior researchers to strengthen business and address any threat.

The client has relationships with the government, funders, and thousands of institutions. This role is about building on top of that, as a senior ambassador who can take the senior meetings in the government and elsewhere, and could be used as a media spokesperson, appear on panels, etc.

Some specific example areas to champion include institutional relationships, research funding, transition to public access and open data, strengthening research integrity, maintaining research security, improving research assessment, and editorial independence. The President, NA is responsible for protecting, maintaining and enhancing the organisation’s profile and reputation amongst USA government stakeholders, US institutions, the US research community and other key influencers in America.

Working in a matrix organisation with global functions acting as the primary vertical axis. The President’s role is regional and horizontal, so it does not have direct reporting lines. Instead, the President, NA will chair the US Leadership Council, where all externally facing US functions are to be represented by their leaders. This is the primary means of leading and coordinating strategy, plans and execution in the USA.

Specific areas where this role should take an external lead in:

• North America’s mission and strategy
• Funding research and the trusted communication of research
• Public Access (OA) to research and the use of TAs (Read & Publish deals)
• Open Research techniques via PIDs, Open Data, Open Code and Open Protocols
• Research integrity and trust in science
• Artificial Intelligence, its benefits and risks
• Research security, cybersecurity and anti-piracy
• Research assessment, metrics and social-economic impact
• Editorial Board Member recruitment for journals
• Early Career Researchers and how best to support them
• Editorial independence, explaining and defending it when needed

Skills & Experience:

• Excellent understanding of the research publishing landscape and the challenges in the current climate
• High-level network with US government agencies, funders, institutional leaders, and senior researchers
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Travel when needed