Project Editor

Salary in the region of £25,000 dependent on skills and experience. OUP offers a full range of benefits.
Full-time, Permanent
Location: Oxford
Ref: 1393

We believe that the skills you bring to OUP are just a starting point: we want you to have the opportunity to expand your abilities, and to innovate and develop in areas that both interest you and support your aspirations.

Our Global Academic division publishes books, journals and digital resources for the research, professional, and higher education markets. It is OUP’s largest division with over 1500 employees. The Law Editorial team focuses on providing high-quality, timely legal scholarship and legal reference titles and products, bringing world-class resources to print and digital publishing landscapes.

ABOUT THE ROLE

This is a really exciting opportunity for a proactive and motivated individual to join the Law Editorial Programme team as a Project Editor. You will be taking ownership of a variety of projects that may include front list delivery of print and digital resources, product development, and organizational change opportunities.

You will work closely with your colleagues in the Editorial Programme Team, with authors, and with other functions across the Press, to uphold Oxford standards of quality and timely publishing. This is a great chance for someone who thrives in a busy, challenging and evolving environment, to be part of a leading publisher.

You will take responsibility for:

• The delivery of designated projects, working with stakeholders to drive progress and ensure you meet all the relevant time and quality targets.
• Assessing and reviewing content against contracted requirements, ensuring content and metadata is prepared for digital dissemination and report on issues to drive continuous improvement in processes and quality.
• Managing projects in accordance with defined procedures including: set-up; monitoring and driving progress; reporting; identifying issues and resolving them or with colleagues determining the path to resolution; author and stakeholder management and liaison; and the maintenance of accurate product and workflow data, ensuring all relevant systems are up-to-date.
• Managing titles through content creation and to delivery, assuring ongoing delivery of contracted requirements, liaising with authors and others to determine progress and secure timely submission of high-quality work and ancillary materials in appropriate form for full and complete handover to production.

ABOUT YOU

You will need to have tenacity and determination to manage and drive progress within your allocated projects and have a proven track record of managing projects and delivering to schedule.

• Experience and understanding of publishing projects, ideally in a scholarly and/or professional publishing environment.
• Engagement with cross-format publishing.
• Ability to work under own initiative to prioritize a demanding workload, set own deadlines and adjust priorities where necessary.
• Excellent organization and time-management skills.
• High levels of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Good IT literacy and adaptability.

BENEFITS

We care about work/life balance here at OUP; with this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays), and a 35-hour working week, along with the flexibility to start and finish late or early as required. The environment you work in and your wellbeing is really important so we also have a wide range of facilities including: a canteen that serves a wide variety of healthy and delicious meals, a subsidized onsite gym and subsidized coffee shops. Amongst further benefits, our pension contribution is up to 11%.

QUERIES

Please contact vicky.hedger@oup.com for any queries.

To apply please visit:

https://jobs.oup.com/uk/jobs/vacancy/project-editor-1393-oxford/1411/description/

Closing date: 20 October 2019

DIVERSITY

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.