Job Title: Programme Manager x 2

Salary: £43,800 - £63,400

Location: Cambridge, Hybrid

Contract: Full time (35 hours a week), Fixed-Term Contract 12 months 

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

Make a difference to people's futures.  Make a difference to yours.

About the role

We are recruiting a Programme Manager who wants to see their work making a difference to people's futures.  As part of a community of change leaders delivering strategic and tactical projects, you will be responsible for defining, shaping and coordinating people, process and technology change globally, improving access to education and life opportunities for millions of people. 

We are a modern organisation with a proud legacy and a global reputation for excellence.  As one of the oldest established media organisations in the world we have been on a digital transformation journey and now are looking for people who can help us move beyond good to world-leading in the digital era. 

We offer continuous learning opportunities including training, mentoring, coaching, communities of practice and the resources you need to grow your career in whichever direction you choose.  Whether you want to increase your expertise in a particular area or broaden your skills and experience across the business, we will support you.

We are recruiting for a fixed term role and will consider requests for full or part-time hours.  We operate a hybrid working arrangement combining remote working with attendance at our Cambridge office as required, by mutual agreement. 

Programmes you could be working on include: 

• implementing new technologies into the business to improve our ways of working, drive efficiency and enhance customer experience 
• driving policy and process change to support new initiatives such as environmental sustainability or the switch to Open Access publishing

About you 

• You can take a brief for a business opportunity and turn it into a plan through robust engagement and analysis
• You embrace good governance and communication to achieve successful outcomes 
• You have great people skills, can recognise the viewpoints of multiple stakeholders and identifying the best way forward
• You are comfortable in accepting and providing challenge to senior colleagues to ensure the best outcome for the projects on programmes
• You are proactive and highly motivated by your accountability to make change happen
• You can lead a team, coaching and mentoring as well as challenging to drive project delivery and personal development

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 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 being 8th December although we may close it earlier if suitable candidates are identified. Interviews are scheduled to take place the week commencing 2nd and 9th December.

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

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 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.

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