Journals Publisher, Content Acquisition
4 weeks ago
**Salary**: £40,000-£47,000 per annum
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid
Contract: Full time, permanent
**We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.**
We are looking for a results-focused publisher to implement and coordinate special collection commissioning across our STM journals.
**About the role**
You will lead the content acquisition strategy and best practice for STM journals at Cambridge, through personally managing special collections and through supporting and coordinating your publishing team colleagues in doing so. You will be expected to
- Deliver a strategy for building journal content through special collections.
- Personally identify topics and guest editors for a selection of journals.
- Establish good practice for the publishing team, setting targets, providing direction, and giving support.
- Engage with external editorial teams about the value and effectiveness of special collections.
- Develop systems and processes for monitoring and streamlining special collections activity.
**About you**
You will have a solid understanding through hands-on experience of the value of special collections in journal publishing, bringing your own awareness of the article commissioning strategies of competitors to development of our strategy.
Your confidence and team-working skills will inspire your colleagues to be fully aligned with you in our content acquisition approach.
**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.
**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. _
- #LI-IB1_
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