Job Description

Salary: 25,200 - 31,800
Location: Cambridge
Country: UK
Business Unit: Academic
Vacancy Type: Fixed Term
Closing Date: 2 October 2025

Meet the recruiter

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Rima Keischa Mafe


rima.mafe@cambridge.org



Salary: 23,300 - 27,650



Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (expectation of 2 days per week in the office)



Contract: Full time (35 hours per week)/Fixed Term (12 months, Maternity Cover)





This is an exciting opportunity for an engaged and collaborative Editorial Assistant to provide critical support to a pioneering series of academic journals that are directly addressing some of the world's greatest challenges.



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

You will be responsible for a wide range of administrative support tasks for the Cambridge Prisms series of journals, a new, open access journal series with the highest standards and greatest expectations. As part of this role, you will:


Communicate with internal colleagues and external editors to help each journal develop and execute content development initiatives and streamline its operations. Track and monitor a range of commissioning activities against targets, agreeing submission deadlines with authors and chasing delayed submissions. Report regularly on key metrics across the series to help the team monitor and manage our progress towards key strategic aims. Organise and host a regular webinar series to promote some of Cambridge's most impactful and solution-oriented research. Provide general support wherever needed as part of the team's collective responsibility to deliver and enhance the success of the series.




You will be a key component of a high-profile series and team at Cambridge, helping us to fulfil our mission of delivering high quality research that advances understanding and drives real world change.



This role is well-suited to someone making their entry into academic journal publishing or to someone early in their publishing career who is looking to broaden their experience within an impactful role.

About you

As an Editorial Assistant you will be a self-starter who can work to deadlines, managing multiple priorities while maintaining a high standard of work with attention to detail.



To be successful in this role, you will have:


First class written and verbal communication skills Excellent organisational and problem-solving capabilities A firm understanding of basic IT software and the ability to learn new software quickly




An STM background and detailed knowledge of the academic publishing industry are desirable, but not essential.



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

1

st

October

2025

, with interviews scheduled to take place mid-late October.



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

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.