2 journalism Opportunities

Closing date: 31st July 2023

Salary: £24,000

Drive global impact in academic publishing as a marketing assistant at OUP's Global Library Marketing, utilising innovative tactics to engage librarians and boost revenue.

We are the world’s largest university press. We have both a worldwide reach and a personal understanding of local needs, partnering on the ground to adapt publications and resources to meet the individual needs of communities, societies, and countries. We partner with researchers, educators, and technology partners to stay ahead of the changing ways people around the world are accessing and sharing knowledge. With a presence in more than 50 countries and millions of customers around the world, an idea launched at OUP can have global impact.

OUP’s Academic Division publishes world-leading journals and digital book and reference products including Oxford Scholarship Online and the Oxford Research Encyclopedias. Purchased by libraries and delivered via our best-in-class Oxford Academic platform, these products aim to deliver academic content to researchers when, and how, they need it.

The academic publishing landscape is rapidly changing and as the Marketing Assistant for Global Library Marketing, you will be part of a team that is at the centre of supporting major publishing and business developments. As a Marketing Assistant, you will be responsible for supporting and implementing marketing activities for key global promotions and initiatives targeting librarians while utilizing a range of innovative digital tactics. Your campaigns will support and drive critical revenue streams for the Press.

Responsibilities

• Assist and support global library marketing campaigns aligned with sales priorities for growing revenue and retaining existing business, bringing new product or business model launches to the market, and increasing customer engagement with OUP and its products
• Utilise a mix of marketing tactics to achieve campaign success including digital ads, email, newsletters, webinars, and social media
• Create and manage assets for global library marketing campaigns including banners, social media cards, videos, landing pages, and infographics
• Support and contribute librarian-focused content for core communication channels such as global librarian newsletters, blog articles, and social media, including our @OUPLibraries Twitter channel
• Measure and analyse campaign and channel performance regularly to inform future campaign strategy
• Assist with the preparation and development of marketing reports, plans, and presentations

Knowledge, skills, and experience

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, detail-oriented environment to deliver marketing campaigns to a high standard
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Good collaborative skills, including the ability to make connections and build relationships within and outside of marketing
• Ability to navigate and adapt to change
• Creativity, enthusiasm, and a can-do approach to your work

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.

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

The employer reserves the right to close the listing and stop accepting applications sooner than the original deadline. Therefore we strongly recommend applying at the earliest opportunity.

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

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.