Job Description

Salary: 37,700-48,950
Location: Cambridge
Country: UK
Business Unit: Cambridge International
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 14 September 2025

Meet the recruiter

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Ian Brooks


ian.brooks@cambridge.org



Salary: 34,500 - 48,950 per annum



Location: Cambridge & Hybrid ( 2-3 days per week in Cambridge)



Contract: Permanent, Full time (35 hours per week)

Do you care about education and have a vision for what good teaching, learning and assessment looks like?

Would you like an exciting opportunity to influence the future of our qualifications and tests that are taken internationally and valued worldwide? Do you want to work within an engaged and high performing team with the opportunity to work across a range of subject areas?



We are looking for a

Development Manager

to join our collaborative and supportive Qualifications & Tests Development team to manage the reviewing and developing of international qualifications and tests, including Cambridge IGCSE, O Levels and International AS & A Levels.



We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role

As a

Development Manager

, you will manage developments of high value qualification and test products in line with internal and external stakeholder expectations. Your role focuses on the review and redevelopment of existing and new qualifications, including digital qualification product offers.

You will be:

Developing qualifications and tests

: implementing and maintaining the product development, and redevelopment processes from inception to business readiness for qualification and test products, with clear drivers and deliverables.

Maintaining valid, reliable and manageable assessments:

using your experience to provide high quality and coherent qualifications and specimen assessment materials, being able to make judgements and provide solutions and ideas.

Seeking and embedding customer feedback

: consulting with key customers during development projects, including schools, ministries, governing bodies and higher education faculty, to ensure customer satisfaction.

Project managing

: ensuring high quality outputs, managing schedules and budgets, being able to proactively solve problems, provide clear reporting and escalate risks.

Collaborating with others

: working with external consultants and internal stakeholders, being able to balance views and influence others.

Representing the team

: contributing to cross-divisional projects for product and process improvements and attending customer facing events.

About you

As a

Development Manager

, you will have experience in either assessment and qualifications design, education, educational leadership and publishing.



For this role you should be educated to degree level or equivalent and have knowledge of UK and/or international education systems.



A background or interest in Advanced Level STEM subjects is essential for this role.

Key skills include being able to:

manage complex projects communicate clearly solve problems with creativity and provide effective innovative solutions motivate others influence others create high quality documents for publication

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:


28 days annual leave plus bank holidays Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance Discretionary annual bonus Group personal pension scheme Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 14th September 2025 although we may close it earlier if suitable candidates are identified. Interviews are scheduled to take place on 22nd September 2025.



Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.


Please note, Cambridge University Press & Assessment is unable to sponsor this role under the Skilled Worker Visa route as it does not meet the minimum skill requirements.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.


Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.


We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.