Production Controller Full Time

Oxford, Oxfordshire
Oxford University Press
We have been a leading figure in publishing for more than 500 years. We have always been a forward-looking organization, maximizing the technology for the day, but the digital revolution is bringing enormous change, fast. That same spirit of adventure and entrepreneurialism is critical to our future success. In a fast-changing publishing landscape, OUP welcomes the inquisitive, the inventive, and the ambitious; people who challenge the conventional, and pioneer the possible.

The ELT Division is a global leader in the provision of multimedia English language teaching and learning materials. Operating in over 100 countries, it reaches millions of teachers and students each year to support the development of English language proficiency.

About the Role

Within this varied, fast-paced role you’ll work within a friendly and supportive team to provide technical production and administrative support to help enable ELT digital products to be delivered to schedule, within budget and to the required standard. The successful candidate will provide assistance with project management tasks and product conceptualization activities.

Responsibilities will also include:

• Co-ordinating the receipt and delivery of asset handovers
• Asset processing
• Liaising with external developers and other team members
• Enabling content input into interactive templates
• Creating and maintaining web pages
• Functionality and cross-platform compatibility testing
• Attending project meetings
• Archiving multimedia assets
• Providing general administrative support to the project teams when required

This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to learn and work with a variety of products.

We operate a hybrid policy and expect the role to require 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

About You

You’ll be a pro-active and self-motivated individual who has an interest in the digital world. The successful candidate will have:

Essential:

• Some experience and/or knowledge of working in a digital environment
• A high standard of literacy and attention to detail and good interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with both third-party suppliers and members of in-house project
• Great organizational skills
• A working knowledge of HTML, XML and Adobe Creative Suite

Desirable:

• Previous experience testing software
• Previous experience within the education and/or publishing environment

Benefits

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.

This role comes with a discretionary annual bonus.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Queries

Please contact email add with any queries relating to this role.

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.