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We support people wherever and however they want to learn, so they can achieve their learning goals and uncover new possibilities.
Today, we reach more learners than ever, in more ways than ever.
And we’re just getting started.
About the Role
The UK Schools team at OUP publishes a wide range of successful educational content for ages 3 to 18, working with teachers, educational partners, and industry experts to ensure maximum impact on educational outcomes.
This is an exciting opportunity to make an impact in education by joining our Editorial and Delivery team as Editorial Manager.
As Editorial Manager, you will lead a creative and passionate team of editors to deliver best-in-class education product. You will be responsible for performance management, development, and pastoral care of your team, and will support editors at different stages of their career to develop. Your team will be working mainly on Primary Literacy but may also work across different projects and subjects. You will need to guide them to problem solve in order to deliver high-quality product on-time and to budget. You will support the Head of Editorial and Delivery in resource allocation and prioritisation.
The Editorial Manager will also be accountable for allocated, high-value editorial management work in Primary, as required.
We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
About You
We are looking for someone with exceptional editorial, project and relationship management skills, preferably gained in editorial roles in educational publishing.
The successful candidate must demonstrate the following:
Essential:
Extensive experience in an editorial role, working across both print and digital and on multiple complex projects
Good knowledge of the UK Education system, especially Primary
Action and delivery orientated
Highly organised multi-tasker
Openness and adaptability to change
Empathetic and supportive
Effective communicator
Desirable:
Line management experience, but support will be provided
Experience of producing and managing content for Primary learners
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.
Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.
Please note this advert may be removed before the advertised closing date, therefore 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.
