Publishing Manager, SING UP

Guardian Jobs; Wideopen; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Remote/hybrid work options

Job summary

Sing Up is seeking a highly organised Publishing Manager to lead the end-to-end delivery of our music publishing and learning content. You will oversee commissioning, planning, and publication, ensuring high editorial standards and timely delivery across teams.

You'll collaborate with editors, digital, marketing, partnerships, songwriters, and educators to maintain quality and consistency, while applying sound judgement on licensing and rights where needed.

Qualifications

• Strong experience managing complex publishing or content delivery projects in publishing, education, or a related creative field.
• Understanding of how music content is developed, including songs, arrangements, notation and/or recordings.
• Confidence working across editorial, production, and digital workflows.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage timelines, priorities, and multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Translate content and publishing strategy into clear delivery plans.
• Manage workflows across music production, editorial, and digital publishing.
• Coordinate contributors and partners.
• Act as final editorial sign-off for the majority of published content.

Skills

Publishing project management

Editorial quality assurance

Content delivery

Cross-functional coordination

Rights and licensing knowledge

Job description

Join Sing Up and help shape the future of music education.

Sing Up is a music education company that believes in the power of singing to transform lives. We support schools, teachers and music practitioners through high-quality resources, training, and a global digital platform.

We’re looking for a highly organised and detail-focused Publishing Manager to lead the delivery of our music publishing and learning content.

This role is central to ensuring our music content (including songs, arrangements, recordings, and teaching resources) is delivered to a high standard, from commissioning through to publication.

About The Role

As Publishing Manager, you’ll take responsibility for the end‑to‑end delivery of music publishing and learning content, ensuring work is planned, coordinated, and delivered effectively and efficiently across teams.

You’ll

• Translate content and publishing strategy into clear delivery plans.
• Manage workflows across music production, editorial, and digital publishing.
• Coordinate contributors and partners.
• Act as final editorial sign‑off for the majority of published content.

You’ll work closely with editors, digital, marketing, and partnerships colleagues, as well as songwriters, composers, arrangers, engineers, and a variety of external partners.

This is a collaborative role combining project management, editorial quality assurance, and music publishing expertise, ensuring content is delivered on time, to an excellent standard, and aligned with organisational priorities.

About You

You’re an experienced and highly organised professional who thrives on turning ideas into well executed outcomes. You bring:

• Strong experience managing complex publishing or content delivery projects in music publishing, music education, or a related creative field.
• Understanding of how music content is developed, including songs, arrangements, notation and/or recordings.
• Confidence working across editorial, production, and digital workflows.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage timelines, priorities, and multiple stakeholders.

You take pride in quality and consistency, and bring a practical understanding of what makes content accurate, usable, and ready for publication.

You’re proactive, solutions focused and calm under pressure, able to bring structure and momentum to collaborative work.

An understanding of rights and licensing in music publishing is desirable, but just as important is your ability to learn quickly and apply sound judgement.

Our workforce is diverse in many areas but underrepresented in others. We understand how people with different lived experience will enrich the work we do, and for this reason, we welcome and encourage applications from people from the Global Majority, people with a lived experience of disability, and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Why join us

We are an innovative, future-focused team committed to improving how education supports children and young people, particularly through creativity, music, and emerging technologies.

Further Job Details

• Salary and benefits: Full time equivalent £40,000 per annum, generous holiday allowance, and other benefits.
• Contract type: Permanent, Full time 37.5 hours p/w (0.8, 30 hours per week considered)
• Location: UK-wide. Depending on location, either fully remote homeworking, or hybrid working (home and office based) when in proximity to Sing Up’s Gateshead office.

Contact: If you would like to discuss the role before applying, please contact us by calling [phone] or email [e-mail].

Our workforce is diverse in many areas but underrepresented in others. We understand how people with different lived experience can enrich the work we do, and for this reason, we welcome and encourage applications from people from the Global Majority and ethnically diverse backgrounds, people with a lived experience of disability, and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.