Job Description

Salary: 43,800-58,500
Location: Cambridge
Country: UK
Business Unit: English
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 1 December 2025

Meet the recruiter

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Ian Brooks


ian.brooks@cambridge.org



Salary: 43,800 - 58,500 per annum



Location: Cambridge - The Triangle Building, UK



Contract: Permanent/full-time

Shape the future of language assessment with Cambridge University Press & Assessment.

We're looking for an experienced English language specialist to lead the design of innovative, next-generation language assessments that give learners meaningful feedback. Join a global organisation committed to educational excellence, collaboration, and innovation - where your work will make an impact on learners around the world.



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'll use your expertise to ensure the quality and validity of Cambridge's approach to digital language assessment and explore how emerging technologies, including Generative AI, can support content creation and enhance assessment design. You'll design innovative content that supports new assessment models, including those that embed ongoing assessment into learning. Your deep understanding of English language teaching, learning, and curriculum will be at the heart of this work, ensuring tasks and feedback truly support learner progress.

About you

You'll bring a strong foundation in English language teaching and assessment, along with the ability to apply that knowledge to innovative assessment design. You're motivated by quality, collaboration, and making a real difference for learners. To succeed in this role, you will:


hold a degree (or equivalent), a recognised EFL/ESL teaching qualification, and have a solid understanding of language assessment theory and practice. have hands-on English language teaching experience and experience of working with assessment content. have excellent attention to detail, strong analytical ability, and confidence in interpreting both qualitative and quantitative data. be well-organised, able to plan, prioritise, and make decisions based on multiple inputs. be an effective communicator who builds relationships and works collaboratively across teams.




If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached at 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 December 2025. Face-to-Face interviews are scheduled to take place w/c 8th December.



As a part of the interview process, you may be asked to prepare a role related presentation.



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.