Rights/permissions Administrator

Rights & Permissions, Senior Associate (India)

**Job Description**:
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Summary:
Reporting to the Manager, Rights & Permissions (India), the Rights and Permissions Senior Associate is responsible for ensuring all third-party content use, across all functions and activities, in India Higher Education, meets Pearson standards, policies, strategies, and business objectives as well as shows continuous performance improvement. The Senior Associate uses a rights management system and proactive engagement with business stakeholders and content development teams to drive best rights and sourcing practices, contain risk, and enable business goals.

The Senior Associate exhibits the Pearson Values of Accountability, Bravery, Imagination and Decency as well as the Global R&P Charter of Behaviors. She or he works consistently to develop professionally and improve performance, embracing a culture of change with a can do attitude, and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive working environment.

Key Responsibilities:
- Embeds rights management strategy into business unit and effectively manages and monitors rights management stakeholders.
- Manage relationships with suppliers and the business, particularly with regards to rights, policy and process adherence.
- Manage third party asset clearance, progress/monitoring and assessment of clearance issues during work in progress e.g. high fees, reply deadlines.
- Collaborate on risk assets and impact/s with the business stakeholders.
- Collaborates with colleagues in content/development/editorial/media teams to embed R&P best practice in workflows and process.
- Monitor and assess decision-making on 3 Tier strategy, third party content compliance, risk management and escalation if required.
- Communicates proactively with the Manager, Rights & Permissions, India, to ensure business needs are met.
- Ensure rights data is captured, managed and tracked in Rights Capture and later in Blueprint and IPM.
- Ensure dealings with all stakeholders is professional, courteous, and highly efficient and meets the Pearson values; accountable, brave, decent and imaginative.

Qualifications:

- Minimum of 2 years’ experience with educational publisher or equivalent, with strong working copyright knowledge and experience in permissions in particular
- Excellent project management skills
- Fluent in both written and spoken English
- Database expertise—input, reporting, tracking & auditing
- Working knowledge of LMS/EMS systems or online content delivery platforms
- Advanced computer skills including Word, Smartsheets, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and general office equipment as dictated by each position
- Undergraduate Degree or requisite experience, including combination of education, professional training, and experience
- Strong language, grammar, and communication skills
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Ability to manage/delegate multiple tasks
- Strong interpersonal and business correspondence skills
- Creative, ideas person who can suggest new ways of working
- Demonstratable problem solving ability
- Team player with an ability to build collaboration and consensus
- Able to listen, support and motivate internal and external teams and stakeholders
- Able to achieve in a time-pressured environment
- Provides a positive working environment that supports diversity, equity and inclusion
- Behaves ethically and with integrity, supports Pearson’s core values, beliefs, and codes of conduct

**Job**: LEGAL

**Organization**: Higher Education

**Schedule**: FULL\_TIME

**Req ID**: 6860