Director, Open Policy Engagement - 5469

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

1/8/2025

Job Title: Director, Open Policy Development

Salary: £67,300-£90,100 per annum

Location: Cambridge, Hybrid

Contract: Full time, permanent, 35 hours per week

Do you have a passion for driving transformative change and influencing global academic policies?

Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and a proud part of the University of Cambridge, is seeking a Director of Open Policy Development to help us shape the future of scholarly communication.

About The Role

As Director of Open Policy Development, you will lead our strategic engagement with senior decision-makers across universities, funding bodies, governments, and industry groups to advocate for and influence policies to develop a vibrant and sustainable open research ecosystem.

Collaborating with internal stakeholders and external leaders, you will:

• Represent Cambridge's open publishing strategy with university leaders and industry stakeholders, for instance cOAlition S, UKRI, the Publishers' Association and others.
• Develop and roll out key policies on academic reward and recognition, financial transparency, and responsible open publishing.
• Build strategic relationships with funding agencies, research institutions, and other key players to drive systemic change.
• Contribute insights and thought leadership to refine Cambridge's open research strategy, ensuring sustainable growth and innovation.
  
  

About You

You are a forward-thinking leader with a passion for innovation and collaboration. With deep knowledge of the research funding landscape and scholarly communications, you understand the importance of driving change through new models, alternative research outputs and equitable publishing initiatives. Your strategic mindset enables you to navigate challenges and craft impactful policies.

You will bring proven experience in building and managing relationships with senior stakeholders and high-value partners. Skilled in strategy development, operational management, and communication, you will excel at gaining buy-in from stakeholders at all levels.

Resilient and driven, you thrive in uncertainty, inspiring others with confidence and humility. Your ability to combine strategic vision with practical implementation will make you a valuable asset to our mission.

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 2nd February 2025 and interviews are scheduled to take place w/c 10th February 2025.

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

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.