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The goal is impact. Together with our academic communities, we curate and seamlessly connect together the ideas that push their fields forward, so they can learn from them, add to them, and continue a virtuous cycle of scholarship.
And because we are a part of the academic community and guided in everything we do by our mission, we re-invest in our people, our publishing, and the world-leading research institution of which we are part.
About the Role
We have three exciting vacancies for the position of Assistant Content Editor in the Upper-Level Content team. Sitting within our Higher Education department at Oxford University Press, the Upper-Level Content team is a transatlantic editorial team that specialises in developing digital and print materials for second-, third-, and fourth-year courses offered at universities and colleges in the UK and North America.
Within a diverse and social international team, you’ll play a key role in the Higher Education Editorial department by ensuring our products are meeting the teaching and learning needs of university instructors and students. This role will provide you with the opportunity to get involved with some of our best digital innovation to date and work closely with other departments whilst taking ownership over your own projects.
Key responsibilities in this role include:
Gain and maintain an understanding of the competitive environment and needs of our customers by interacting with them directly through reviews, surveys, and direct engagement
Complete detailed analyses of our competitors' products and analyse third-party data
Coordinate the market review of new proposals: identify potential reviewers, issue review invitations, set deadlines/follow up, and collate and anonymize reviews
Coordinate external peer review of draft manuscripts
Commission and coordinate the preparation of market-required resources to support the use of our content and products in the classroom
Evaluate content for quality and fit with market need
Draw on usage data (where available), market feedback, and other metrics to inform strategic decisions about which supplements to support
Manage projects to ensure their completion to brief, schedule, budget, and in line with available resource
Perform line-editing and support authors in their development of textual and non-textual pedagogical content
Manage author relationships
Ensure project tracking systems and CRM (customer relationship management) systems are up to date with accurate data
We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
N.B. Two of the vacancies are permanent roles, and one is a 12-month fixed term contract. Please specify in your application whether you are willing to be considered for either type of contract, or if you have a preference.
About You
You are an organized and inquisitive individual who is looking to learn and develop. To be successful in this role, you will ideally have:
Essential:
Excellent time management and prioritization skills
Superb attention to detail
The ability to problem solve and work on your own initiative
An interest in educational publishing
Superior communication skills
Desirable:
Experience with and/or knowledge of educational publishing
Experience with and/or knowledge of Higher Education markets
Benefits
We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.
We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.
This role comes with a discretionary annual payment.
Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.
Please note this advert may be removed before the advertised end date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.
