Senior Research Manager

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS & ASSESSMENT; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading academic publisher as a Senior Research Manager in Cambridge. This role involves leading research projects, ensuring high-quality outputs, and engaging with various stakeholders. You'll work within a collaborative team to innovate and enhance educational products. The position offers competitive pay and a flexible working environment, with a focus on professional development and diversity.

Benefits

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

Qualifications

• Experience in educational research projects using diverse methodologies.
• Expertise in language learning and assessment.

Responsibilities

• Conduct high-quality research to support product development.
• Lead research projects and communicate findings effectively.

Skills

Quantitative Research

Mixed Methods Research

Stakeholder Engagement

Education

Postgraduate Degree

Doctoral Degree

Tools

SPSS

SAS

R

Python

MAXQDA

NVivo

Job description

Senior Research Manager

Salary: £43,800 - £58,800

Location: Cambridge UK, with hybrid working (minimum 2 days a week in the office)

Contract: Fixed term (12 months), Full Time (35 hours per week)

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge. An exciting opportunity has arisen within the English Research Group for a Senior Research Manager. Within that role, you will join a team of well-respected researchers with diverse research backgrounds and find many exciting opportunities for professional development. Your research activities will help ensure the high quality and excellence of our English products and services and inform the continuous improvement and innovation in our product design. You will also engage with a wide range of audiences to showcase Cambridge's research and expertise. Your work will contribute to our organisational mission to support education, unlock potential and enable success.

About the role

This is a12-month fixed-termposition to cover parental leave. Depending on your areas of expertise, as a Senior Research Manager, you will lead research projects related to one or several areas, such as language test development and validation, digital product innovation, automarking and automated feedback, adaptive learning, learning analytics, and automated content generation. You will also play a key role in successfully communicating research to both internal and external stakeholders.

This is a research-focused position with key responsibilities that include:

• Conducting high-quality research, which ensures that products, propositions, capabilities, and services are underpinned by robust research evidence.
• Providing an expert domain and research perspective on the maintenance and development of learning and assessment products.
• Designing rigorous quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research studies, incorporating both traditional and innovative methodologies.
• Leading research projects that meet high theoretical and technical standards and communicating findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Building strong relationships with internal teams to ensure that key learning and assessment principles inform decision-making processes.
• Developing/maintaining a strong academic profile in areas relevant to language education.
• Disseminate research via publications and presentations at conferences and events to a range of specialist and non-specialist audiences.

About you

To excel in this role, you will have:

• A postgraduate degree in education, psychology, curriculum design, applied linguistics, language learning, language assessment, educational technology, educational measurement, statistics, learning analytics or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• A deep understanding of language learning and/or assessment, with demonstrated expertise in delivering educational research projects using a range of methodologies.
• Strong quantitative and/or mixed methods research skills, with proficiency in using data analysis software such as SPSS, SAS, R, Python, MAXQDA, and NVivo.
• The ability to confidently engage with internal and external stakeholders and effectively convey research ideas and technical concepts to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.

The ideal candidate will also have:

A doctoral degree in one of the abovementioned areas. Prior research experience in AI-supported language learning and/or assessment. A track record of publications and conference presentations in education, applied linguistics, language learning, language assessment or a related field. If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

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, flexiblerewards 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 are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications beingSunday 8June 2025. Interviews are scheduled to take place within the following two weeks.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Please note that Cambridge University Press & Assessment will not ordinarily be able to provide sponsorship for vacancies of 12-months or less in duration. Applicants must therefore have an existing right to work in the UK to be eligible for this position.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's 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's 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 identityand 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.