Salary: UK - £33,300 - £38,300 per annum
Madrid - Competitive
Location: Cambridge or Madrid/Hybrid
Contract: Full Time/Fixed Term (12 months)

Are you an effective, well organised, and proactive professional with a keen eye for detail? Do you aspire being part of a highly collaborative, talented, and supportive international team who shares your commitment to excellence? As a Senior Editor in Cambridge University Press & Assessment you will help us deliver our ambitious School publishing plan and enhance our customers' experience.
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
We are looking for a passionate, creative and proactive Senior Editor to help us deliver our ambitious ELT publishing plan. You will work with an experienced and global team on the development of key Schools products that build on our trusted reputation as a quality University Publisher that helps millions of people worldwide unlock their potential.
As a key member of the team, you will help to deliver exciting, new, innovative course materials for learners of English including a broad range of both print and digital content. Your remit will require independent management of a variety of course materials, ensuring they are delivered on time and within budget whilst meeting customer needs.

About you
You're an experienced editorial professional looking for a new challenge. What you bring to the team is:

• excellent editorial project management skills and proven experience of delivering print and digital components on schedule and to budget
• experience of collaborating effectively with authors, in-house teams and external freelancers and suppliers
• the ability to develop learning materials which are fun, motivating and shaped by key market insights
• knowledge of learning and assessment methodologies (with particular experience of Cambridge Exam qualifications)
• confidence in using a variety of tools and systems in your day-to-day editorial and project management work
• a positive approach to general editorial administrative tasks
• an appetite to explore new ways of developing products that are highly relevant to the challenges facing Schools markets today.

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.
Please note, salary ranges will differ in each location.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis. With a closing date for applications being Monday 21st October 2024, however, this is a rolling campaign, and therefore we will conduct interviews as and when candidates apply. 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 that Cambridge University Press & Assessment will not ordinarily be able to provide sponsorship for vacancies of less than 12-months in duration. Applicants must therefore have an existing right to work in the UK to be eligible for this position.

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.
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