Planning and Strategy Coordinator

Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Hartford

Hybrid

GBP 38,000 - 46,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Private medical and Permanent Health保险

Discretionary annual bonus

Group personal pension scheme

Life assurance

Green travel schemes

Job summary

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is seeking a Planning & Strategy Co-ordinator to sit at the centre of planning and strategy across Propositions. You will help ensure teams work to a clear rhythm with the right information at the right time to support effective decision-making.

You will coordinate planning cycles, prepare materials for Core English Strategy and Business Planning, maintain shared spaces, and support leadership forums.

Qualifications

Experience coordinating planning cycles and high-level forums.
Ability to translate complex information into accessible updates.
Proven track record in supporting strategic initiatives and business planning.

Responsibilities

Coordinate planning cycles and key forums, ensuring teams are aligned to priorities, timelines, and decision points
Coordinate inputs from across teams to create a clear view of progress, dependencies, and risks
Prepare high-quality materials (presentations, briefings, pre-reads, communications) to support strategic initiatives
Ensure clear, timely and consistent communication across the department, translating complex information into updates
Support leadership forums such as Town Halls and strategy updates
Maintain and improve shared spaces (e.g. Teams, SharePoint) so information is easy to find and up to date
Work with Internal Communications teams to align messaging and maximise engagement
Track progress and identify opportunities to improve planning, coordination and communication ways of working

Skills

Planning & coordination

Organisation & prioritisation

Communication & storytelling

Stakeholder management

Leadership forum support

Progress tracking

Presentation development

Collaboration tools

Tools

PowerPoint

Teams

SharePoint

Job description

As Planning & Strategy Co-ordinator, you will sit at the centre of planning and strategy activity across Propositions. You will help ensure that teams are working to a clear and consistent rhythm, with the right information, at the right time, to support effective decision-making. You will support major strategic activity, including the Core English Strategy and annual business planning cycle, as well as leadership forums and department-wide communications. Your work will enable greater clarity, alignment and pace across a complex, fast-moving environment. In this role you will:

Coordinate planning cycles and key forums, ensuring teams are aligned to priorities, timelines, and decision points
Coordinate inputs from across teams to create a clear view of progress, dependencies, and risks
Prepare high-quality materials (including presentations, briefings, pre-reads, and communications content) to support strategic initiatives, such as North Star, Core English Strategy and Business Planning
Ensure clear, timely and consistent communication across the department, translating complex information into accessible updates
Support the delivery of leadership forums such as Town Halls and strategy updates
Maintain and improve shared spaces (e.g. Teams, SharePoint) so information is easy to find and up to date
Work with Internal Communications teams to align messaging and maximise engagement
Track progress and identify opportunities to improve planning, coordination and communication ways of working

This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition.

Do you enjoy turning complexity into clarity? Are you at your best when coordinating across teams, bringing structure, visibility, and momentum to strategic work? You are highly organised, proactive, and comfortable working across multiple teams and priorities. You bring structure to complexity and communicate with clarity and confidence.

We’re looking for someone who can demonstrate:

Planning and programme coordination
Organisation and prioritisation
Communication and storytelling
Stakeholder management
Leadership forum support
Progress tracking and delivery management
Presentation development
Collaboration tools (PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint)

Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate the following desirable criteria:

Internal communications
ELT or Education Sector knowledge
Strategy and business planning awareness
Collaboration platform management
Continuous improvement
Cross-functional facilitation
Internal event and town hall coordination

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge. This is an opportunity to join our Global Propositions team in English, where you will play a key role in helping a large, global function stay aligned, informed, and focused on delivering its strategic priorities.

If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect:

First and final stage virtual interviews via MS Teams.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs. Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry. We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure.

Why join us? Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is 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 it is safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background. We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable and/or appropriate, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition. Please note that Cambridge University Press & Assessment will not ordinarily be able to provide sponsorship for vacancies of less than 12-months in duration. Applicants must therefore have an existing right to work in the UK to be eligible for this position.

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 including: