About the Role
The Primary International Education team publishes highly successful print and digital resources for teachers and learners around the world. Our publications support a diverse range of subject areas including Maths, Science, Literacy, Computing, History and Geography.
We are seeking a talented Editor to join the successful International Primary Editorial team. This is an exciting opportunity within our Education division to take print and digital projects through the production process within a supportive team environment.
Key responsibilities include:
Applying editorial skills, judgement, and best practice to ensure that products are accurate, appropriate, accessible and published to specifications.
Progressing resources through the production process, from manuscript to finished product (both print and digital resources).
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.
Management of project schedules and budgets to ensure timely and cost-effective publication
You will work with colleagues, authors, and freelancers to publish resources which are targeted at teacher and learner needs. This role will focus on our market-leading international primary resources but may work on other projects at times, to support the delivery of our varied publishing programme.
We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
About You
You will have excellent communication skills with a strong team spirit. You will also have:
Excellent organization and time management skills
High levels of literacy and numeracy
Excellent attention to detail
Proficiency in producing digital content with good understanding of the user experience considerations necessary for digital formats
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
Desirable:
Experience of XML workflows
Experience of teaching in the school types for which we produce resources
Experience of educational publishing, particularly at Primary level
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.
