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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
The Project Editor is responsible for managing and delivering through to publication, a pipeline of contracted book projects within the Content Development group, ensuring they meet quality, budget, and schedule expectations. This includes overseeing content creation for print and digital formats, liaising with authors, editors, and internal stakeholders, and coordinating with external suppliers. The role involves active project management of a large number of titles, maintaining accurate metadata and product information, managing peer-review processes, and ensuring smooth handover to Production. The Project Editor also collaborates with the Design, Marketing, and Sales teams to prepare materials that support effective market delivery.
The role also includes contributing to departmental knowledge-sharing, training new team members, and participating in workflow improvement initiatives. Additionally, the Project Editor plays a role in budgeting, helping forecast future publications and tracking progress against financial goals.
We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
About You
Proven track record of managing projects and delivering to schedule
Experience of, and engagement with, cross-format publishing, ideally in an academic environment
Ability to work autonomously, prioritize a demanding workload, set and meet deadlines, and adjust priorities as necessary
Excellent organizational, project-management, and time-management skills
Ability to adapt to change and work across different subject areas and projects as required
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Demonstrated ability to work and communicate productively, ideally with senior academics and/or professional authors
Work demonstrates high levels of accuracy and attention to detail
Good IT literacy and adaptability
We welcome applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements, including part-time hours and alternative working patterns.
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 the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment.
Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.
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.
