Senior Editor

**Salary**:

- Competitive

**Location**:

- Cambridge, Madrid, Mexico City

**Country**:

- Mexico, Spain, UK

**Business Unit**:

- English

**Vacancy Type**:

- Permanent

**Closing Date**:

- 23 February 2025

**Meet the recruiter**:

- Louise Linsey

**Salary**: Competitive and depending on country

Location: Cambridge, UK / Madrid, Spain / Mexico City, Mexico - with hybrid working

Contract: Permanent, Full-time

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

Are you effective and proactive professional with an eye for details and a talent for bringing out the best in writers? Do you aspire being part of a highly collaborative, talented, and supportive international team who share your commitment to excellence? As a Senior Editor in Cambridge University Press and Assessment you will help us deliver our ambitious Schools publishing plan and enhance our customers' experience.

**About the role**

You will work with an experienced and global team on the development of key products that build on our trusted reputation as a quality University Publisher that helps millions of people worldwide unlock their potential.

As a pivotal member of the team, you will help to deliver exciting and innovative course materials for learners of English including a broad range of both print and digital content. Working with the Commissioning Editor and/or Product Owner, alongside the wider cross-functional team, you will be responsible for ensuring that both print and digital products are delivered on time and within budget with a customer centric focus.

**Please take a look at the job description attached at the end of the advert. We want to hear from you**

**About you**

You are an experienced editorial professional, looking for a new challenge, with the ability to be flexible and personable, whilst working both independently and collaboratively as part of an international and cross-functional team.

Alongside your strong editorial project planning and management skills, you will bring to the team your analytical thinking, and the ability to plan long-term whilst adapting to changing circumstances and being responsive to setbacks through creative problem-solving. You will have a proven track record of working to tight deadlines and delivering to specification and budget, as well as experience in a wide range of ELT products and workflows.

To be successful you will demonstrate:

- Experience of working effectively with authors, in-house teams and external freelancers and suppliers
- Knowledge of ELT pedagogy theory and practice, including a CELTA/TESOL qualification and/or equivalent experience
- Proficient use of English with strong writing and speaking skills, as well as active listening skills
- Knowledge of learning and assessment methodologies
- A degree in a relevant field or proven comparable experience

**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, dependent on country.

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. _