Rights & Permissions Specialist — Hybrid, Global Licensing

Johns Hopkins University; Baltimore (MD); Hybrid; USD 47,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Johns Hopkins University Press is seeking a Rights & Permissions Specialist to join a team focused on broad access and scholarly impact. You will manage permissions for books and journals, negotiate fees, and develop revenue streams with global publishers and vendors.

You will collaborate with the Rights Manager and university counsel on terms, build international publisher relationships, and oversee contracts and licensing processes to maximize permissions revenue while ensuring compliance and

Qualifications

• Two years of related copyright work experience, including prior contract negotiation experience.
• Bachelor's Degree or higher.

Responsibilities

• Manage the permissions budget for books and journals published.
• Maintain and increase budget revenue.
• Coordinate permissions requests, including researching rights and negotiating fees with global publishers and vendors.
• Develop and implement in-house industry practice fee assessment structure.
• Collaborate with the Copyright Clearance Center to oversee and supervise accounts for books and journals in order to increase and maximize permissions revenue via regular account reviews.
• Identify and seek new revenue streams for licensing book and journal content.
• Assist the Rights Manager with pitching titles to global partners for subsidiary rights and negotiate multi-cultural licenses.
• Collaborate with the Rights Manager, Director of Press, CFO of Press, Director of Journals, and University Counsel in the negotiation of terms.
• Identify and develop new foreign publisher relationships and maintain those relationships through correspondence, meetings, and domestic and international travel to international book fairs and conferences.
• Identify publishers to license audiobook as well as serial rights and other subsidiary and digital licenses.
• Draft, track, and send all subsidiary rights contracts to global partners as well as all other rights related agreements including rights reversions. Involves tracking expired licenses and outstanding payments.
• Coordinate logistics for foreign book fairs including exhibits, travel, display, supplies, including payment of global vendors and processing of wire and international and domestic credit card payments.

Skills

Microsoft Outlook proficiency

Strong organizational skills

Attention to detail

Critical thinking

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Two years of copyright experience

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Outlook

Job description

Johns Hopkins University Press is seeking a Rights & Permissions Specialist to join a team focused on broad access and scholarly impact. You will manage permissions for books and journals, negotiate fees, and develop revenue streams with global publishers and vendors.

You will collaborate with the Rights Manager and university counsel on terms, build international publisher relationships, and oversee contracts and licensing processes to maximize permissions revenue while ensuring compliance and