Content Development Editor Oxford 2024

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.