Content Development Editor

ABOUT THE ROLE

This role gives you the opportunity to partner with authors to create and shape market-leading undergraduate educational content, with the autonomy to truly make your mark on the resources we publish. Responsible for developing a number of strategically important projects across a range of subject areas; creating value propositions which speak to clearly-identified market needs. Develop products that are distinctive, innovative, and compelling, and which drive digital usage. In close collaboration with authors, thoughtfully enrich and curate both text and non-text content in line with market feedback and the best practices of learning design.

Key responsibilities include:

Gaining in-depth knowledge of our competitive environment and customer needs, including by the completion of detailed analyses of our competitors' products
Managing the development of all the types of content that make a final product, ensuring brief, schedule, and budget are met
Employing line-editing, structural editing, and content curation to guide and inform authors
Helping to define the nature and scope of the non-text assets that enrich our content, including artwork and media
Nurturing positive author relationships, and drawing up clear and comprehensive author guidance
Ensuring project tracking systems are maintained with accurate data
Market reviewing materials throughout the content development stage to enable ongoing assessment, shaping, and curation of the material
Partnering with marketing colleagues to establish class test and pilot strategies
Creating and sharing clear, compelling value propositions and marketing copy for all products

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

ABOUT YOU

You’ll have a strong interest in educational content; be highly literate with excellent communication skills; and have a clear view of what educationally effective content looks like, and how to articulate this view to others.

To be successful you’ll also have the following:

Essential

Demonstrable understanding of learning design principles and how they apply to the shaping of educational content.
Demonstrable interest in editorial intervention to enhance the quality of content.
Demonstrable experience of effective project management and consistent delivery of goals.
Highly literate and numerate.
Able to demonstrate excellent attention to detail at all times.
Strong organizational, time management, and prioritization skills.
Ability to work well on your own initiative and to be proactive in solving problems.
Ability to work with peers and cross-functionally in a productive manner (including within the matrix management structure of the Press) towards a common purpose and good.
Excellent written communication as well as strong interpersonal and verbal skills.

Desirable:

In-depth knowledge of Higher Education publishing and the Higher Education ecosystem.
Experience of tracking/monitoring costs against agreed budgets
A commercial mindset, with an understanding of the importance of sales, usage, and market validation to product success

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 bonus.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

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.