Publisher

**Cambridge, hybrid (minimum 2 days per week in the office)**:
**35 hours per week**:
We have recently expanded our Research Directions series of journals, and we are looking for a Publisher to drive their growth and innovation in partnership with the Programme Manager and the wider team. This is an exciting time to join our team.

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**

You will join our STM journals team, where you will drive forward the editorial and functional development, profitability, quality, and impact of a new series of innovative STM open research journals for Cambridge.

As Publisher, you will be responsible for the launch and development of a subset of the Research Directions series of journals. You will also be responsible for the subset of existing journals in the same series, overseeing overall editorial direction, growth, and development of each journal in collaboration with our dynamic academic boards.

You will also:

- Oversee content acquisition in collaboration with the external editorial board.
- Work with the Programme Manager to create workflows, editorial policies, and editorial solutions to ensure the scalable development of the programme.

**About you**

You will have a strong scientific background, with experience in academic publishing, including launching journals and an understanding of the OA and open research publishing landscape.

You will be working closely with various stakeholders, therefore you will enjoy collaboration and working in a team.

You will have the ability to lead editorial initiatives, gain the confidence of senior academic leaders, launch titles and acquire content.

Along with your excellent written and verbal communication skills, you will have a strong financial awareness.

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:

- 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._

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