About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Primary Editorial and Delivery team in the UK Education Division, creating high-quality, market-leading Maths resources for primary schools.
The main responsibility of the Development Editor is to take print and digital projects through the production process, working with authors and other editors, Design and Digital teams to ensure that high-quality, market appropriate products publish on time and within budget.
Key responsibilities in this role will include:
Applying editorial skills, judgement, and best practice to ensure that products are accurate, appropriate, accessible and published to match curriculum requirements
Progressing resources through the production process, from manuscript to finished product (both print and digital resources)
Proactive problem-solving to ensure that resources come out to schedule and within budget.
Building and fostering good working relationships with colleagues, freelancers, authors and suppliers
Adapting quickly to evolving editorial processes and workflows, including XML-based publishing and collaboration with external suppliers
Demonstrate and apply knowledge of primary schools market.
We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will ideally have:
Experience in educational publishing
Good understanding of UK primary schools market and experience of producing educational content for the primary age range
Sound editorial competency and judgement to edit and level Maths content
Excellent organisational, time management and problem-solving skills, and the ability to prioritise and communicate effectively
Creativity, enthusiasm and passion for Maths education in schools
Attention to detail and drive for high standards
High levels of literacy, numeracy and data literacy
Experience in managing complex multi-component print and digital projects to budget and schedule
Ability to liaise with and manage a range of authors, suppliers and freelancers
A willingness to learn new skills and processes
Proficiency in producing digital content with good understanding of the user experience considerations necessary for digital formats.
Benefits
We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ 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 payment.
Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.
Queries
Please contact
[email protected] 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.
