Education Publishing Development Editor – Hybrid, Oxford

Oxfordshire Business Club; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 25 days

Pension up to 12%

Private medical insurance

Travel-to-work schemes

Car allowance

Job summary

Oxford University Press in Oxford is hiring a Development Editor for the Education UK Division. The role leads secondary-subject manuscripts from manuscript through production, ensuring accuracy, accessibility and timely delivery across print and digital resources.

The successful candidate will collaborate with authors, freelancers and internal teams, manage budgets and schedules, and contribute to XML publishing workflows. Hybrid working with two days in the Oxford office is required.

Qualifications

• Educational publishing experience is essential.
• Familiarity with at least one secondary subject and revision guides.
• Strong literacy, numeracy and data literacy for handling content, schedules and budgets.
• Experience managing authors, freelancers and suppliers is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Take secondary-subject manuscripts through production to finished print and digital products.
• Check content against the brief and maintain production schedules and budgets.
• Collaborate with authors, freelancers and internal teams; adapt to XML publishing workflows.

Skills

Educational publishing

Secondary subject knowledge

Data literacy

Project management

Digital-content production

Communication

Job description

Oxford University Press in Oxford is hiring a Development Editor for the Education UK Division. The role leads secondary-subject manuscripts from manuscript through production, ensuring accuracy, accessibility and timely delivery across print and digital resources.

The successful candidate will collaborate with authors, freelancers and internal teams, manage budgets and schedules, and contribute to XML publishing workflows. Hybrid working with two days in the Oxford office is required.