Assistant Content Editor, Cary, North Carolina

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We are the world’s largest university press. We have both a worldwide reach and a personal understanding of local needs, partnering on the ground to adapt publications and resources to meet the individual needs of communities, societies, and countries. We partner with researchers, educators, and technology partners to stay ahead of the changing ways people around the world are accessing and sharing knowledge. With a presence in more than 50 countries and millions of customers around the world, an idea launched at OUP can have a global impact.

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Advancing Knowledge and Learning

ABOUT THE ROLE

OUP is a mission-led organization delivering excellence around the globe through publishing. The Assistant Content Editor focuses on project management of digital and print content for higher learning across multiple academic disciplines. The role requires monitoring budgets, maintaining schedules, and reporting to stakeholders across multiple functionalities and geographies. This role is perfect for someone with project management experience in any industry or capacity. The successful Assistant Content Editor prides themselves on accuracy and attention to detail; multitasks with ease; monitors budgets and allocates resources with care and creativity; and communicates effectively to build and maintain relationships with colleagues and customers alike. This role is hybrid in our New York City or Cary, NC offices or remote in the United States.

Key Accountabilities include:
1. Market and HE ecosystem expertise: Maintain an accurate and dynamic understanding of the competitive environment and customer (lecturer, student) needs by interacting directly with our customers, through reviews, surveys, direct engagement (virtually and in person, e.g. at conferences), and VoC; by completing detailed analyses of our competitors' products; and by analyzing third-party data on the markets in which we compete.
2. Coordinating the market review of new proposals: research reviewers, issue review invitations, set deadlines/follow up, collate and anonymize reviews.
3. Market validation of content: Coordinate external peer review of draft manuscripts with a view to gaining necessary market validation and, in parallel, seeding the market for future adoptions.
4. Curation of teaching support materials and services: Commission and coordinate the preparation of market-required resources to support the use of our content and products in the classroom. Evaluate content for quality and fit with market need according to project specifications, while looking for ways to minimize investment in these free resources. Draw on usage data (where available), market feedback, and other metrics to inform strategic decisions about which supplements to support.
5. Project management: Manage projects to ensure their completion to brief, schedule, budget, and in line with available resource. Actively maintain awareness of costs during content development through to market launch. Manage the author relationship prior to submission of their content to ensure their work fully meets the agreed specification and contractual requirements. Draw up clear and comprehensive author guidance, and adopt working practices that ensure authors adhere to this guidance.
6. Data hygiene: Ensure project tracking systems and CRM systems, particularly Oxford Publish, Salesforce, and other proprietary data systems are up to date with accurate data

ABOUT YOU

• Highly literate and numerate.
• Strong organizational, time management, and prioritization skills.
• Ability to work well on your own initiative and to be proactive in solving problems.
• Able to demonstrate excellent attention to detail at all times.
• Experience using the Microsoft Office Suite, especially Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with Adobe Acrobat.
• Audio editing and video editing skills are an advantage.
• Excellent written communication as well as strong interpersonal and verbal skills.
• A demonstrable interest in the publishing industry, with some prior experience of educational publishing an advantage.
• Prior experience with project management an advantage.
• Demonstrable ability to learn and effectively use different IT systems and software.

BENEFITS

We care about work/life balance at OUP. We offer 15 days’ vacation time that rises with service, 8 sick days, plus floating holidays, personal days, company holidays, and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect of working hours and the use of technology to support regular remote working, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We care for you and your dependents by offering health, dental, and vision insurance plans to our full-time employees. Each plan has multiple levels of coverage to fit your needs and has a high level of contribution made by OUP. In addition, we offer Employee Assistant Programs for all full-time employees, regardless of whether you elect in health insurance. We also offer life insurance and disability insurance.

We help make your money go further by providing a non-elective contribution on your behalf to your retirement plan of 7% of your salary and a matching contribution to the retirement plan of 50% on the first 6% of employee contributions on based earnings.

Location: The position is located in Cary, NC or New York City, NY on a hybrid basis. This position can also be located remotely in the United States.

Salary: $35,000 - $50,000 dependent on skills and experience

GJC Level: S3 (for internal purposes only)

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.

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The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)