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This vacancy list for jobs in publishing is run by the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies
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Editorial Assistant, 10 Month FTC
John Wiley & Sons Limited
Location: Chichester, West Sussex,
Deadline for application: 31st May 2013
This role is responsible for running the editorial offices for a portfolio of titles within Life Sciences and for supporting other editorial offices as required. The successful candidate will act as first point of contact and liaise with Editors, Reviewers, Authors, Production Editors and Journal Publishing Managers to ensure the smooth running of the journals from the submission of content to final publication.
Key tasks include:
- Monitoring submissions and accepted manuscripts and alerting as appropriate to significant problems
- Maintaining and updating ScholarOne Manuscripts
- Monitoring manuscript progress and supporting the Editors
- Acknowledging, checking and preparing new and revised submissions for peer review
- Ensuring adherence to established best practices
- Attending journal meetings and compiling and presenting brief reports on editorial initiatives and statistics
- Assisting in the identification and implementation of journal development opportunities
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Assistant Product Manager - ELT Marketing
Oxford University Press
Location: Oxford
Deadline for application: 2nd June 2013
About Us
Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford which furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide.
The ELT Division is a global leader in the provision of multimedia English language teaching and learning materials. Operating in over 100 countries, it reaches millions of teachers and students each year to support the development of English language proficiency.
About the Role
As a member of the English Language Teaching (ELT) Marketing Department, you will help develop and deliver the marketing strategies and programmes for some market-leading courses on the American Secondary and Adult lists – selling into a range of international markets.
The successful candidate will work with the publishing and sales teams to:
- plan and implement print and digital promotional campaigns
- articulate key messages with true customer appeal
- devise and deliver sales tools and training to OUP’s international sales teams
- write clear and persuasive copy for product launches and local marketing campaigns
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Production Editor
Out of House Publishing
Location: Stroud, Gloucestershire.
Deadline for application: 3rd June
Out of House Publishing is a young and growing business serving busy publishers with a high quality and efficient production service for books and journals.
Role profile
- Oversee production of a challenging list of academic and education titles, from receipt of author’s manuscript to supply of final files and stock
- Commission and supply work to freelance editorial suppliers, monitoring their work and providing feedback
- Liaise with the overseas typesetting suppliers
- Keep both the client and author updated on the production of their title, and respond to queries in a timely manner
- Collate corrections from authors, proofreaders and publishers, check revised proofs and digital products and maintain delivery of consistently high quality content
- Manage tight schedules and budgets
- Work with colleagues to refine company-wide procedures and processes, maximising efficiency and minimising risk
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Senior Marketing Executive
Taylor & Francis Group
Location: 7 June 2013
Deadline for application: 7 June 2013
The Taylor & Francis Politics Journals Marketing Team is now looking for a Senior Marketing Executive.
Taylor & Francis Group partners with researchers, scholarly societies, universities and libraries worldwide to bring knowledge to life. As one of the world’s leading publishers of journals, books, ebooks and reference works our content spans all areas of Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Science and Technology. From our network of global offices we publish over 3600 new books and 1700 journals annually. Hear what the people who work for us have to say, watch the video here: http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/careers_home.asp
The Taylor & Francis Politics Journals Marketing Team is now looking for a Senior Marketing Executive.
This is an exciting role with responsibilities including:
• Working closely with other members of the team to plan and implement promotions for the full range of Politics, International Relations, Military, Defence and Strategic Studies titles;
• Devising marketing strategy plans in line with objectives and implement effective and measurable direct marketing and electronic marketing campaigns;
• Being the main marketing contact for a list of approximately 40 journals;
• Line management and development of a marketing co-ordinator including, appraisals, coaching and objective settings;
• Monitoring sales, analysing campaigns and producing clear reports;
• Researching and attending conferences (UK and International travel);
• Planning and executing events such as journal launches and receptions
• Extensive web research and web-based marketing;
• Budget planning, implementation and control;
• Liaison with key external and internal stake holders;
• Researching and analysing competitors and competitor activity, identifying new opportunities, reporting on trends.
• Deputising for and support the Marketing Manager;
• Co-ordinating the training requirements of the team and training certain team members as required
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Account Manager
Oxford University Press
Location: Oxford
Deadline for application: 29th May 2013
About Us
Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford which furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. The ELT Division is a global leader in the provision of multimedia English language teaching and learning materials. Operating in over 100 countries, it reaches millions of teachers and students each year to support the development of English language proficiency.
About the Role
The Sales Operations department manages service provision to a global customer base across 90 countries, to over 150 customers. The team is responsible for ensuring the accurate and on time delivery of products to customers within agreed service levels.
The Account Manager will -
- manage the provision of first class customer service to a defined set of markets
- provide comprehensive account management to ensure that customer requirements are met – order management, claims handling, pre and post-sales support
- provide sales support to regional Sales and overseas management teams
- work effectively and proactively by building relationships with other internal functions to ensure stock is available, delivered to markets on time and is billed correctly
- maximise opportunities to improve service provision through continuous improvement and monitoring key customer service performance indicators
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Project Editor, 9 Month FTC
John Wiley & Sons Limited
Location: Chichester, West Sussex,
Deadline for application: 27th May 2013
This role is working within the Health and Life Sciences Books Content Management Team and will develop books from handover from Editorial and deliver completed manuscripts on schedule and to agreed specifications to the Production team. The Project Editor will maintain regular contract with authors, editors and colleagues in order to keep stakeholders informed.
Selection criteria
- Experience of working with external authors and contacts
- A knowledge of book production and editorial processes
- A good knowledge of Microsoft Office and basic knowledge of file types e.g. XML, PDF, image files
- The ability to work independently without close supervision
- Evidence of problem solving skills
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal
- The ability to work effectively and achieve results in a changing environment
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- A publishing qualification would be desirable, as would previous development or production experience and a knowledge of STMS publishing.
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Assessment Coordinator, Operations
Oxford University Press
Location: Oxford
Deadline for application: 9th June 2013
About Us
Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford which furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide.
The English Language Teaching (ELT) Division is a global leader in the provision of multimedia English language teaching, learning and assessment materials. Operating in over 100 countries, it reaches millions of teachers and students each year to support the development of English language proficiency.
About the Role
This role within the Operations team was established to help achieve the operational objectives in producing online English language tests.
The core responsibilities of this role are:
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Liaise with key personnel, externally and internally, to ensure the effective running of Operations.
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Assist in the promotion of the ELT Division to increase the awareness of and interest in the ELT test portfolio.
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Fulfil the requirements of the test development process according to established guidelines and procedures.
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Support the development of appropriate IT systems and databases for the effective running of Operations.
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Support the end-to-end process of Assessor recruitment and management.
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Establish and maintain a professional working relationship with Test Centres worldwide, and provide a high level of customer service.
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Digital Asset Management (DAM) Divisional Manager
Oxford University Press
Location: Oxford
Deadline for application: 29th May 2013
About Us
Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford, which furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. The Education Division provides books and resources across Primary, Secondary, Trade and Children’s markets, both for the UK and for customers around the world. We are passionately committed to our mission to educate and inspire through book board and screen.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced professional to oversee and manage the use of OUP’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) system in our Education division (OXED).
Main accountabilities:
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working with senior stakeholders to define business benefits and set strategic priorities for divisional use of DAM
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directing and supporting the use of DAM in OXED, ensuring business needs are met through DAM and that users are engaged with and enthused by the system
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creating business processes around DAM and embedding them into workflows
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analysing data and creating reports on OXED’s use of DAM, particularly around key benefits
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defining and delivering training and support to OXED DAM users
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managing and supporting the application and development of metadata and the metadata model and taxonomy within OXED
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representing OXED’s interests on the OUP-wide DAM group and working with the wider OUP DAM group to set standards and policies for the use of DAM across OUP
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ensuring OXED’s use of DAM is compliant with all OUP’s legal obligations and policies
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 23 May 2013 around 4pm • Filed Under Permanent Position in Media Company • Filed Under Permanent Positions in Publishing and New Media •
Assistant Editor x4 - Oxford English Dictionary (General and Science)
Oxford University Press
Location: Oxford
Deadline for application: 27th May 2013
About Us
Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford, which furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. The Global Academic Business (GAB) Division publishes books, journals and digital resources for the research, professional and higher education markets.
About the Role
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning and history of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.
We are looking for four people (including one scientist) to join the team of lexicographers working on the Oxford English Dictionary (www.oed.com). The OED documents the English Language from the Middle Ages to the present day. Editors are required to research the origin, meaning, and usage of a word and to create dictionary entries which convey the essential details to a general readership. Your job would be either to research and write entirely new entries or to revise and update the existing OED text.
The science candidate will have a strong interest in the language of science and will work with a team of specialists from various disciplines to update scientific and technical entries in the OED.
Please state in your application which of these roles interests you.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 23 May 2013 around 4pm • Filed Under Permanent Position in Media Company • Filed Under Permanent Positions in Publishing and New Media •
Sales and Marketing Executive
Black Dog Publishing
Location: London
Deadline for application: 24th May 2013
Black Dog Publishing and Artifice Books on Architecture specialise in highly illustrated books on art, design, popular culture and architecture. We are seeking a Sales and Marketing Executive to work alongside the Sales and Marketing Team to build sales and expand the list for this growing area of the business.
The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing effective sales and marketing plans to develop the list, identifying new business opportunities as well as supplying relevant marketing and sales analysis. You will be expected to develop and maintain an excellent and thorough working knowledge of the market as well as the customer base. You will be working alongside the Sales & Marketing Team, sales representatives and distribution partners and will provide regular feedback and reports to the director.
Tasks will also include creating sales materials together with the Sales and Marketing Team, managing title data, researching promotional opportunities for our titles and sales reporting. Good communication and excellent multi-tasking skills are essential as well as working knowledge of Mac computers and Microsoft Office Systems. The ideal candidate should have a good knowledge of illustrated publishing and preferably 4 years experience in this field.
The salary range for this role is £18,000 - £24,000 per annum.
Please send your CV and covering letter to Marianne Templeton at office@blackdogonline.com with the subject header SALES/M EXECUTIVE.
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