Editorial Assistant - Psychology (3468)

Salary: £23,000 - £29,501

Location: Cambridge & hybrid working

Contract: Permanent, Full-time

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

You will be to working closely with our global team of Executive Publisher and Commissioning Editors (CE) to provide editorial and administrative support. This will include assisting in list management & development, to deputise in their absence where appropriate and ensure smooth running of the list by organising several key areas of content workflows for titles (such as sourcing covers/writing blurbs).

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to work within our Academic and Professional books editorial department in the Humanities and Social Sciences team. As an Editorial Assistant you will communicate daily with both external contacts (Academic authors, contributors, volume/series editors) and a broad range of internal colleagues beyond the immediate commissioning/content teams (e.g., Finance, Legal services, Content Operations, Marketing & Sales).

Your accuracy and ability to facilitate efficient co-ordination and evaluate content before handover to achieve the best results for Cambridge and the Academic community are key for this role, as you will be working on a high number of projects at any one time and on your own initiative, so flexibility and juggling changing priorities are essential skills.

Other key accountabilities will be, but not limited to:

• Working closely and coordinate daily with our ‘Indian operations coordinators (IOC)' on a variety of administrative tasks (e.g., contracts/review copies/payments/fees/3rd party permissions), to ensure efficient and timely arrangements are in place.
• Updating missing or incorrect data on our internal database, as well as covering all aspects of the editorial process to ensure delivery dates and metadata is maintained accurately

You will be provided with ongoing training to support our products and your own career goals. This role offers great flexibility for growth and development, as well as the opportunity to make a significant, positive contribution to the development of our programs in scholarly communication and higher education for our customers all over the world.

Please take a look at the job description attached at the end of the advert. We want to hear from you!

About you

Alongside your strong written and verbal communication skills, you will bring to the team your excellent organisational and time management skills.

To be successful you will demonstrate:

• Attention to details
• Initiative to pick-up editorial operational challenges and troubleshoot them with relevant colleagues in other departments.
• Proficient IT skills in the use of word processing, spreadsheets, databases, and e-mail.
• Some office or administrative experience.

Good bachelors/first degree is an advantage but not essential.

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:

• Group personal pension scheme
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Green travel schemes
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

We also offer flexible and hybrid working options from day one. We will consider any work arrangements if you wish to work 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 application being 8th June 2023 and interviews are scheduled to take place on 16th June 2023.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

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 everyone has a voice, and where we learn continuously to improve together. Ensuring that everyone feels they belong is essential to who we are, and to the contribution we make to society and our planet.

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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