Editorial Assistant

2 weeks ago

Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press & Assessment Full time

**Salary**:

- £25,200 - £31,800

**Location**:

- Cambridge

**Country**:

- UK

**Business Unit**:

- Academic

**Vacancy Type**:

- Permanent

**Closing Date**:

- 7 July 2025

**Meet the recruiter**:

- Marco Rhobenn Caspillan

**Salary**: £25,200 - £31,800

Location: Cambridge - Hybrid (2-3x a week in the office)

Contract: Permanent, Full time (35 hours per week)

We are looking for a motivated Editorial Assistant to provide support for a Publisher and Commissioning Editor who are responsible for building the medical books publishing portfolio.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

**About the role**

**The role is varied and includes administrative, editorial, and list management responsibilities as well as working closely with a range of people across Editorial, Content Management, Sales and Marketing, and doctors and healthcare professionals.

**Key Responsibilities include**:

- Coordinate with authors, editors, and contributors
- Manage manuscript delivery, project timelines, and author queries
- Oversee contracts, payments, and permissions
- Handle copywriting and cover image research
- Represent the Publisher/Editor at occasional conferences

**About you**
- Strong communication, admin, and time-management skills
- Detail-oriented and highly organized
- Proactive, flexible, and team-oriented
- Experience in office settings and cross-functional communication

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

**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:

- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Group personal pension scheme
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

- Please note, Cambridge University Press & Assessment is unable to sponsor this role under the Skilled Worker Visa route as it does not meet the minimum skill requirements_

**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._
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