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Development Editor (ELT)

**Department / Business Unit**:
ELT

**Location**:
Delhi, India

**Reports to (job title)**:
Publishing Manager
- 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 focused on meeting the needs of our learners, authors, and customers by bringing research, teaching, learning and assessment together._

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Conducting research on market trends, studying competition
- Conducting product presentations and workshops
- Adept at customer interaction and consolidating existing high-value relationships
- Finalizing the project timelines and budget for a particular product
- Interacting with prospective users and gauging the impact of the proposed product
- Finding new ways to make the product portfolio grow by understanding industry trends
- Analysing global products and customization as per local needs
- Value addition to existing products (Reprints/Revisions)
- Creating new product ideas with a strict eye on the P&L
- Conducting product training sessions across India
- Responsible for managing projects to ensure the highest quality control standards as per ideal TAT (Turnaround Time)
- Content development, author management & vendor management
- Accountable for final quality, accuracy, budget, schedule & program goals
- Identifying risks to schedule, budget, scope and ensure project completion
- Project Management: coordinating with design team for book covers & layout, production team & manufacturing team to ensure on-time delivery of content
- Exposure to digital product development

Publishing
- Design, develop and deliver resources as per the pedagogical practices and curriculum requirements of the target market
- Prepare and maintain publishing-related documents
- Evaluate key competition and prepare detailed competition analysis for new series as well as revision
- Develop sample chapter templates with all the features
- Evaluate manuscript and outline the manuscript development process and its delivery
- Work with authors to finish the project in time as per the approved scope and budget
- Responsible for content accuracy, all varieties of editing of the resources we publish
- Interact with freelancers, content developers, reviewers and authors to finalise the book(s), digital components, teacher support material
- Sign off the handover of the final print-ready PDF of the book(s) and final deliverables of the digital components to the product development team as per the pre-approved scope of work

Budget
- Responsible for delivering the projects within the budget allotted

Customer Connect
- Aware of the new developments in the K12 segment of publishing
- Understand government guidelines and policies related to education
- Keeping an eye on all the major developments of CBSE/ICSE boards; understanding their guidelines and policies
- Understand the user environment of the target audience
- Deliver product training to the target customers
- Client communication in Custom projects

Working with Author/s
- Work with authors to complete the projects as per the approved scope, budget, schedule and key quality measures
- Maintain cordial and productive relationship with authors

Working with Product Development team
- Work closely with the team to deliver the components basis the approved pub plan
- Provide relevant content input and info to help them finalise the templates, QA matrix/checklists
- Finalise the components as per the QA matrix/checklists

Working with Sales and Marketing teams
- Aware of the marketing strategies for the promotion of the books
- Ready to travel with the sales team for the promotion of the books
- Product training of the sales team and the target user

**Skills & Experience**
- Strong team player.
- Subject matter expert in the field of ELT.
- English language proficiency is a must.
- Advance-level proficiency in MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, Adobe PDF.
- Self-driven and enthusiastic.
- Ready to adapt and learn.
- Ability to work well under pressure.
- Capable of meeting deadlines.
- Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills.

Qualification
- Master's in English from a premium university or educational institute

Work Experience
- Minimum 4-5 years in a competitive work environment

Desirable:

- Working knowledge of commonly used video and audio editing software
- Strong editorial skills
- Exposure to assessment creation and implementation
- A degree/diploma in Publishing
- Should possess excellent written and verbal communication with a good team management skill.
- Exposure to educational products in the international markets.
- We believe that diversity of thought, background, and approach create better outcomes. More importantly, fostering an inclusive culture is the right thing to do, and it's part of how we achieve our purpose: to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, le