Planning and Strategy Coordinator - 7637

Cambridge University Press; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 28 days

Private medical insurance

Discretionary annual bonus

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Green travel

Job summary

Cambridge University Press & Assessment in Cambridge is seeking a Planning and Strategy Co-ordinator to drive planning cycles, align teams to priorities and support strategic decision-making across Propositions. This role sits at the center of planning and strategy activity, ensuring the right information is available at the right time to enable momentum.

You will coordinate inputs from across teams, prepare materials for North Star, Core English Strategy and Business Planning, and maintain open

Qualifications

• Experience in a coordination, planning or programme support role.
• Strong organisation and prioritisation abilities.
• Ability to communicate complex information clearly and concisely.

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 content) to support strategic initiatives.
• Ensure clear, timely and consistent communication across the department.
• Support leadership forums such as Town Halls and strategy updates.
• Maintain and improve shared spaces (Teams, SharePoint) to keep information up to date.
• Work with Internal Communications to align messaging and engagement.
• Track progress and identify opportunities to improve planning and ways of working.

Skills

Planning coordination

Organisation & prioritisation

Communication & storytelling

Stakeholder management

Leadership forum support

Progress tracking

Presentation development

PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint

Tools

PowerPoint

Teams

SharePoint

Job description

Job Title: Planning and Strategy Coordinator

Salary: £29,700 – £38,550

Location: Cambridge, UK – Hybrid (at least 2 days per week in the office)

Contract: Fixed term, 12-month contract

Hours: Full-time (35 hours per week)

Do you enjoy turning complexity into clarity? Are you at your best when coordinating across teams, bringing structure, visibility, and momentum to strategic work?

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.

About the role

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.

About You

You are highly organised, proactive, and comfortable working across multiple teams and priorities. You bring structure to complexity and communicate with clarity and confidence. You will have experience in a coordination, planning or programme support role, and/or communications role, and enjoy working in a collaborative, fast‑paced environment.

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)

• 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

For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.

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:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be 16 October 2026. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place from the week commencing 26 October 2026.

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.

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.