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About the Role
The Rights Assistant acts as a centralised support function in the Rights Team, responsible for providing administrative, sales enabling and operational support to the team in all their activities. In this role you will have a global remit and will be key in contributing to overall Rights success. The current Rights team is a team of 7, who handle rights licensing across the globe for Education’s content.
Duties of the role will also include:
Rights deal fulfilment and processing, working with internal teams and external customers
Use of department technology systems to process Rights activity & supporting the team in their use of these systems
Sales enabling & support (including Bookfair preparation tasks)
Day-to-day admin & support within team, working with Rights Managers and Rights Director
Developing an understanding and knowledge of Rights, Publishing, and the licensing potential of OUP content
Represent Rights team across Education International and the wider business
About You
This role is ideally suited to someone who can demonstrate strong organisational skills, acquired from within an office based workplace or elsewhere, who can work out priorities and hold people to account. An interest in Rights or Publishing will be very beneficial, alongside the following:
Administrative experience
Attention to detail particularly with numbers and complex documents
Methodical, accurate, efficient, and hard-working
Ability to pick up new systems quickly and troubleshoot issues with technology
Pro-active with a demonstrable ability to problem-solve
Able to juggle and prioritise a varied workload, working independently and as part of a team to meet deadlines
Quick to acquire and retain knowledge
Ability to work as a team player, a positive attitude and openness and adaptability to change
Please note, if you are currently completing your studies and interested in applying for this role - we are able to consider candidates who are available part time in the first instance, with a view to increasing to full time later on. We would require at least 3 days a week on a part time basis, and would need the successful candidate to start on a full time basis by October 1st at the latest. On a part time basis, office attendance would still be required as per our hybrid working policy.
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.
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.
