8 Operations / Facilities / Admin Opportunities in Greater London

Closing date: 3rd July 2022

Salary: £22,000

If you're passionate about the publishing of academic journals & keen to kickstart your career in publishing, check out this opportunity to join the Oxford University Press.

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.

We believe that the skills you bring to OUP are just a starting point. We want you to have the opportunity to expand your abilities, and innovate and develop in areas which both interest you, and support your aspirations.

Responsibilities

As our new Journals Publishing Assistant, you will be a key member of our global Publishing Support Team, providing administrative and editorial support across our multi-disciplinary portfolio of academic Journals. You will be supporting the team with:

• The management of existing journals through administrative and research support
• Preparing the regular publishing update reports for Society partner journals covering a wide range of performance measures
• Providing regular data reports and analytics to support and develop Journal strategies
• Organising meetings, attending and taking minutes as appropriate, undertaking catering, travel and room booking arrangements and paying of expenses
• Completing relevant payments and tracking efficiently and accurately
• Ensuring journal home pages are up to date, for example by maintaining Editorial Board details, or adding new data or features
• Maintaining relevant and appropriate gratis subscriptions across a list of titles
• Maintaining the journals contracts repository and maintain best practice in data management
• The acquisition process with preparation of proposals
• Working with other U.S. and UK Journals departments as required to accomplish tasks and enhance communications between NY, Cary, and Oxford, UK.
• Assisting in launch of acquired journals and participate in launch meetings
• Special projects as assigned, including assisting with organization of annual U.S. Oxford Journals Day

We operate a hybrid working policy and expect this role to require infrequent days in the Oxford office.

Knowledge, skills, experience

• Good organizational skills and the ability to work independently
• The ability to pick up new tasks and learn new systems and processes quickly
• A good team spirit and the ability to work collaboratively
• Self-discipline with the ability to manage and balance priorities under time pressure
• Good attention to detail and numeracy
• Excellent spoken and written English
• Experience with Microsoft Office products

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.