Job Description

Associate Content Manager, Journals

Salary: £24,300 - £30,600

Location: Cambridge, Hybrid

Contract: Fixed Term (12 Months) Full time 35 hours per week

Are you detail-driven and passionate about academic content?

Join our dynamic Content Operations team as an Associate Content Manager and support the end-to-end production of high-quality academic journal content. You'll be responsible for ensuring content is produced on time, within budget, and meets industry standards for print and online publications. This role is essential to maintaining our competitive edge in academic publishing.

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 an Associate Content Manager, you'll coordinate the publication process from accepted manuscript to online and print publication, handling Open Access, production workflows, and different types of publishing models including continuous publication, FirstView, and issue-based.

You'll liaise daily with authors, editorial teams, offshore suppliers and freelancers, managing smooth workflows and supporting production quality. With training provided, this entry-level role offers clear progression to Content Manager, where you can lead your own projects more independently.

About You

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are detail-oriented, adaptable, and a strong communicator, this role is for you! We're looking for someone with:

* A strong grasp of digital tools like Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Cloud. Knowledge of Filemaker and Salesforce is desirable but not essential

* The ability to work independently and within a team

* Project management skills and a proactive approach to problem-solving

* An awareness of publishing and the industry trends

* A willingness and open-minded nature towards learning new systems and processes

Apply now and be part of a team that values collaboration, empowerment, and innovation!

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 13th Nov 2024 and interviews are scheduled to take place from 18th Nov 2024 onwards.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested in this exciting opportunity, we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.

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.

Associate Content Manager, Journal