Senior Education Advisor

Job Title: Senior Education Advisor

Salary range: £42,000 – £56,800

Location: Cambridge & Hybrid

Contract: Permanent, Full time 35 hours per week

Take on a pivotal role at Cambridge University Press & Assessment as a Senior Education Advisor, where you will drive business growth while improving education systems worldwide. Use your expertise in government and education to build lasting relationships with high-level stakeholders and deliver impactful results.

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

About the role

Partnership for Education at Cambridge University Press & Assessment collaborates with Ministries of Education and global organisations to transform education systems through strategic reforms. We are excited to announce an opening for a Senior Education Advisor to join our business development team as we expand and enhance our processes.

In this role, you will be instrumental in identifying and developing new business opportunities, supporting our Cambridge-based sales teams to secure new clients and maximise the potential of existing partnerships. Your contributions will help drive growth for the Partnership for Education, ensuring a positive impact for Cambridge customers and the societies they represent.

This is a fantastic opportunity for professionals with a background in business development, particularly those with experience working in the government sector. You will play a key role in engaging senior business executives and stakeholders, helping to shape and strengthen educational initiatives globally.

About you

This role demands significant interaction with senior dignitaries, government officials, Ministries of Education, and international organisations. Therefore, experience working in an international market is highly beneficial.

You will bring a deep understanding of curriculum and assessment in education, with experience in publishing or teaching environments. As the Senior Education Advisor, you will also showcase exceptional business insight and strategic thinking, with the ability to cultivate and maintain relationships with high-level customers.

In addition, you will possess skills in financial reporting, pipeline management, and forecasting.

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 13th October 2024 and interviews are scheduled to take place week commencing 21st October 2024.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested in this exciting opportunity, we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.

We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, all applications must be submitted via our official online application form. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters.

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

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.

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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