Editor

Job description

About the Role:

To take educational digital products through the development, testing, and production process, working with multiple teams to ensure that products meet high quality standards, are appropriate to international markets, and are published on time and within budget.

Key Responsibilities:

• Use content authoring tools and approved AI tools where appropriate to support digital content creation, adaptation and quality assurance, retaining editorial responsibility for accuracy, learning quality and suitability for global teachers and students. Follow applicable organisational policies on accessibility, AI use, copyright, confidentiality and data protection, and refer concerns to the relevant specialists.
• Proactively monitor digital production schedules, plan effectively and recommend solutions to problems, following best working practices so that digital products are published efficiently and on time.
• Ensure that timely corrections to digital products are implemented accurately and that digital updates are managed according to schedules and budgets agreed with the publishing and digital product management teams.
• Provide guidance and support to the editorial team in the creation and production of digital products, helping them to work efficiently and meet their deadlines.
• Monitor expenditure against budgets for specific digital products and alert the manager to problems at the product planning and creation stages so that products are published within budget.
• Communicate effectively with multiple teams, including; editors, digital product managers, UX designers, sales and marketing managers, to ensure that digital products are created efficiently, are market appropriate, and are published to a consistently high standard.
• Proactively create opportunities to develop expertise in learning experience design and competitor awareness of digital learning products to improve the usability and success of our digital products.

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

About You:

• High levels of literacy and numeracy.
• High levels of IT literacy with experience of Microsoft Office and content creation/editing tools.
• Practical understanding of generative AI and its limitations and opportunities.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent organization and time management skills.

Desirable:

• Experience of teaching and/or the use of online teaching resources.
• Experience of using AI to support educational content workflows.
• Experience of digital content creation and digital educational publishing.
• Experience of training, teaching or developing guidance documentation.
• Interest in/experience of the international school market.
• Familiarity of digital accessibility requirements.
• Awareness of copyright, confidentiality and data protection

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.

This role comes with the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Queries

Please contact [email protected] 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.