Project Editor

About the Role
Introduction – the ‘why’

This role offers the opportunity to contribute directly to OUP’s mission through the creation and delivery of high‑quality academic content across print and digital formats. As a Project Editor, you will help shape influential products including key copyrights, major works, and online modules.

You’ll join a globally engaged editorial team that values honesty, respect, resilience, and curiosity. The position offers exposure to a wide range of subject areas, collaboration with leading academics, and involvement in innovative publishing and digital development.

With the academic landscape continually evolving, this role provides meaningful work, a strong sense of purpose, and room to grow within a supportive, mission‑driven environment.

In this role, you will:

• Manage a portfolio of projects from setup through delivery, ensuring they meet agreed timelines, quality standards, and budget parameters.
• Oversee online content and book titles through creation and delivery to Production, liaising with authors to secure timely, high‑quality submissions aligned with contracted requirements.
• Review and assess content, manage peer review where needed, maintain metadata accuracy, and ensure complete handover to Production.
• Work with partially outsourced editorial workflows, coordinating with external suppliers or editorial teams.
• Liaise closely with Design, Marketing, and Sales to provide materials, briefs, specifications, and reports to support publication and market success.
• Review, correct, and deliver digital content for online publication, including managing updates via Production or supplier channels.
• Monitor costings, profitability, and production workflows in partnership with Content Operations; elevate concerns when needed.
• Support new‑product development with Acquisitions and Content Development teams, contributing to new publishing streams or digital initiatives.
• Conduct or support market and customer research to ensure coverage, structure, and usability of online products and major works remain aligned with market needs.
• Present recommendations for developing products, propose authors or editors, and attend board meetings as required.
• Represent the Content Development team at internal and external events, fostering positive relationships with academic contributors and stakeholders.
• Share subject‑area knowledge, mentor new team members, support improvements to training materials, and contribute to workflow or process‑enhancement initiatives.
• Support annual budgeting by establishing forthcoming titles and tracking projects against goals.

• Proven track record of managing projects and delivering to schedule.
• Experience with cross‑format publishing, ideally within an academic environment.
• Excellent organisational, project‑management, and time‑management skills.
• Ability to work autonomously, prioritise demanding workloads, adjust to changing priorities, and meet deadlines.
• High levels of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work productively with senior academics and specialist authors.
• Strong IT literacy and adaptability.
• (No additional desirable criteria were listed.)

• Motivation: Passion for positive impact; driven by OUP’s mission; strives for productivity and opportunity.
• Mind‑set: Curious, globally aware, future‑focused, open to change, committed to development.
• Core
  
  Skills:
  
  Confident communication, strong teamwork, sound judgement.

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Dependent on skills and experience.

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