Job Title: Arabic Publishing Manager

Salary: Competitive

Location: Dubai, UAE

Contract: Fixed Term (2 Years), Full Time, 40 Hours Per Week

Are you an education expert that is passionate about reforming Arabic language teaching and learning materials for schools? 

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

We are seeking an Arabic Publishing Manager to lead the development and delivery of high-quality Arabic educational materials for a wide range of clients, including Ministries of Education in the MENA region. This is a key role in supporting education transformation services, managing the publishing process, and ensuring projects are delivered on time, on budget, and to top quality standards.

About the Role 

As Arabic Publishing Manager, you will:

• Lead Arabic content creation from start to finish, working with authors, editors, and suppliers.
  
  
• Review all materials to ensure that they meet Cambridge quality standards.
  
  
• Collaborate with clients and internal teams to ensure seamless handover and client satisfaction.
  
  
• Work closely with Cambridge project management team to deliver projects on time and budget and mitigate risks.
  
  
• Liaise with colleagues to ensure the curriculum, publishing, professional development, and assessment elements of the programme are aligned.
  
  
• Play a pivotal role in client workshops and training to ensure successful review processes.

About You 

You will:

• Be an Arabic native speaker with a strong command of Modern Standard Arabic.
  
  
• Have a proven background in education, particularly K-12.
  
  
• Come from a teaching background, preferably in Arabic as a first or foreign/second language.
  
  
• Demonstrate publishing experience for K-12.
  
  
• Communicate skillfully with the ability to establish engaging relationships with stakeholders across the education sector.
  
  
• Be detail oriented, analytical and proficient in managing complex projects. Capable of effectively balancing multiple priorities.
  
  
• Possess knowledge about the MENA education landscape and have experience working with government clients.
  
  
• Show initiative and strategic capability in your approach to identifying opportunities and solutions.

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, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits.

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 and plan to interview on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 14 October 2024. We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested in this exciting opportunity, we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.

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

We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, all applications must be submitted via our official online application form. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters.

 
Why join us. 

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will 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 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.