Publishing Assistant, Journals, Cary, North Carolina

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We are the world’s largest university press. We have both a worldwide reach and a personal understanding of local needs, partnering on the ground to adapt publications and resources to meet the individual needs of communities, societies, and countries. We partner with researchers, educators, and technology partners to stay ahead of the changing ways people around the world are accessing and sharing knowledge. With a presence in more than 50 countries and millions of customers around the world, an idea launched at OUP can have a global impact.

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Advancing Knowledge and Learning

ABOUT THE ROLE

OUP is a mission-led organization delivering excellence in education around the globe through publishing. The Publishing Assistant, Journals supports our Journals Publishers and Society Partners to enhance our multi-disciplinary portfolios of academic journals by managing a team inbox. In this role, every day is different with a mix of daily tasks and a variety of team project opportunities and includes independent and collaborative work. This role is perfect for someone innovative, self-motivated, a team player, and someone who is looking to build skills in academic journals publishing. The role contains a balance of analytics and relationship building. The Publishing Assistant, Journals role can either be hybrid out of our New York City or Cary, NC offices or remotely in the United States.

Key Accountabilities include:

• Assist in the management of existing journals through administrative and research support
• Prepare the regular publishing update reports for Society partner journals covering a wide range of performance measures
• Provide regular data reports and analytics to support and develop Journal strategies
• Organize meetings, attending and taking minutes as appropriate, undertaking catering, travel and room booking arrangements and paying of expenses
• Completing relevant payments and tracking efficiently and accurately
• Ensuring journal home pages are up to date, for example by maintaining Editorial Board details, or adding new data or features
• Maintain relevant and appropriate gratis subscriptions across a list of titles
• Assist in maintaining the journals contracts repository and maintain best practice in data management
• Assist in the acquisition process with preparation of proposals
• Work with other U.S. and UK Journals departments as required to accomplish tasks and enhance communications between NY, Cary, and Oxford, UK.
• Assist in launch of acquired journals and participate in launch meetings
• Special projects as assigned, including assisting with organization of annual U.S. Oxford Journals Day

ABOUT YOU

• Good organizational skills and the ability to work independently
• The ability to pick up new tasks and learn new systems and processes quickly
• A good team spirit and the ability to work collaboratively
• Self-discipline with the ability to manage and balance priorities under time pressure
• Good attention to detail and numeracy
• Excellent spoken and written English
• Experience with Microsoft Office products, especially Microsoft Excel
• Data Analysis skills

BENEFITS

We care about work/life balance at OUP. We offer 15 days of vacation time that rises with service, 8 sick days, plus floating holidays, personal days, company holidays, and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect of working hours and the use of technology to support regular remote working, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We care for you and your dependents by offering health, dental, and vision insurance plans to our full-time employees. Each plan has multiple levels of coverage to fit your needs and has a high level of contribution made by OUP. In addition, we offer Employee Assistant Programs for all full-time employees, regardless of whether you elect in health insurance. We also offer life insurance and disability insurance.

We help make your money go further by providing a non-elective contribution on your behalf to your retirement plan of 7% of your salary and a matching contribution to the retirement plan of 50% on the first 6% of employee contributions on based earnings.

Position Location: This role can be hybrid, based out of Cary, NC (2 times a week in office) or New York City, NY. This role can also be remote in the United States

GJC Level: S2 (for internal purposes only)

Salary: $31,500-$45,000 dependent on skills and experience

We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.

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The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)