Job Description

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Secondary Editorial and Delivery team in the Education Division, creating high-quality, market-leading resources for secondary school students.

In this role you will be responsible for taking print and digital projects, for Secondary English and other subjects as required, through the production process, working with authors and other editors, and design and digital teams, to ensure that high-quality, market-appropriate products publish on time and within budget.

Responsibilities include:

• using market knowledge to improve the market focus of designated products
• applying editorial skills, judgement, and best practice to ensure that products are accurate, appropriate, accessible and published to schedule and budget
• building and fostering good working relationships with authors
• helping to manage and support freelance editors
• monitoring schedules, budgets and spend on designated projects
• liaising with colleagues in other departments to ensure that print and digital projects are worked on efficiently, and to ensure that product is market appropriate

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

About You

You\xe2\x80\x99ll be someone with a passion for how education can help to shape young minds, detail-oriented, proactive and creative.

To be successful in this role you will also have:

Essential:

• High levels of literacy and numeracy
• IT literate with experience of Microsoft Office particularly Word and Excel.
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent organization and time management skills

Desirable:

• Experience of the UK secondary school market; an understanding of trends in education
• Knowledge of publishing processes
• Experience of educational publishing.

Benefits

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days\xe2\x80\x99 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 bonus.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Queries

Please contact tobi.ogunnaike@oup.com with any queries relating to this role.

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.

Oxford University Press