Project Editor, Databases

We have been a leading figure in publishing for more than 500 years. We have always been a forward-looking organization, maximizing the technology for the day, but the digital revolution is bringing enormous change, fast. That same spirit of adventure and entrepreneurialism is critical to our future success. In a fast changing publishing landscape, OUP welcomes the inquisitive, the inventive, and the ambitious; people who challenge the conventional, and pioneer the possible.

About the Role

As our new Project Editor, you will be responsible for management and delivery of designated projects within a discipline or product team in the Content Development, Databases group (non books). Work may include managing the publishing of content in one or more print and/or digital formats, developing key copyrights or major works, or overseeing digital projects. You will work under your own initiative within agreed departmental parameters, so that projects are delivered and content is published on schedule, to quality standards, and to budget.

Other duties include:

• Manage all projects and ensure quality and timeliness, including setting-up of projects; monitoring and driving progress; reporting; identifying issues/risks and taking action to resolve them, or with colleagues determining the path to resolution; liaising with authors and stakeholders about standard issues; and maintaining accurate product and workflow data, ensuring all relevant systems are up to date.
• Project manage online content and book titles through content creation and to delivery to Production
• Co-ordinate with Design, Marketing, and Sales to provide all standard materials, specs, copy, and briefs, tailored to effectively produce and bring content to market
• On request, and as necessitated by the project workflow, review, correct, and deliver digital content for regular online publication
• Work with Content Operations to ensure projects are published according to approved plans
• Support new-product development across print and digital formats
• Support or undertake market and customer research
• Develop and maintain good knowledge of relevant subject area(s), and a good working knowledge of editorial operations and procedures
• Contribute to the annual budgeting exercises

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

About You

• Proven track record of managing projects and delivering to schedule
• Experience of, and engagement with, cross-format publishing, ideally in an academic environment
• Ability to work autonomously, prioritize a demanding workload, set and meet deadlines, and adjust priorities as necessary
• Excellent organizational, project-management, and time-management skills
• Ability to adapt to change and work across different subject areas and projects as required
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to work and communicate productively with senior academics and other specialized authors
• Work demonstrates 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 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. 

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Queries

Please contact grace.mcfadyen@oup.com with any queries relating to this role. 

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.