Wiley
Content Acquisition Specialist
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Job Description:
We believe in bold ideas, diverse perspectives, and the drive to transform knowledge into impact. Here, your curiosity fuels progress, your voice shapes innovation, and your ambition helps redefine what’s possible within science and learning. We are a culture that obsesses over impact, challenges, and drives what’s next to power infinite possibilities for our customers, colleagues, and society at large.
About the Role:
We are looking for a Content Acquisition Specialist to support the development and growth of special content across our journal portfolio.
In this role, you will help identify, develop, and manage a healthy pipeline of special content opportunities by working closely with Editors-in-Chief, Guest Editors, Publishers, internal colleagues, and external researchers. You will use research insight, publishing knowledge, and data to identify emerging topics, support content acquisition activity, and help strengthen journal visibility and engagement within the research community.
Job Responsibilities
- Support strategic content acquisition by identifying and developing special content ideas aligned to journal and portfolio objectives.
- Work with Editors-in-Chief, Guest Editors, Publishers, and internal teams to support the development of special issues and related content projects.
- Use data and research insights to identify emerging topics, potential contributors, Guest Editors, and areas of opportunity.
- Build and maintain positive relationships with researchers, editors, and internal stakeholders across multiple subject areas.
- Help coordinate multiple content acquisition projects at the same time, ensuring activity is tracked clearly and progressed effectively.
- Support journal visibility through researcher engagement, conference activity, webinars, virtual events, and other outreach opportunities.
- Maintain high standards of quality, attention to detail, and responsiveness across content acquisition workflows.
- Collaborate with colleagues on team projects that improve efficiency, scalability, and ways of working.
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Required Qualifications, Experience, and Skills
- Experience working with the research community and/or within an STM publishing, scholarly publishing, content acquisition, commissioning, or editorial environment.
- Strong research credibility or relevant publishing/content acquisition experience.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to build trust and engage professionally with internal and external stakeholders.
- Excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks, deadlines, and projects effectively.
- An interest in scholarly publishing, research communication, and supporting journal development.
- Analytical skills and confidence in using data to support decision-making.
- Strong attention to detail and a proactive, collaborative approach.
- Excellent spoken and written English.
- Willingness to travel where needed, particularly for conferences, workshops, or researcher engagement activities.
Preferred Qualifications, Experience, and Skills
- Experience supporting special issues, article collections, commissioning activity, or content acquisition.
- Experience working with Editors-in-Chief, Guest Editors, authors, reviewers, or research communities.
- Familiarity with bibliometric data, journal performance metrics, Excel, Power BI, VOSviewer, Scopus, Dimensions, or similar tools.
- Experience supporting webinars, conferences, researcher outreach, or community engagement.
- A PhD, MSc, or equivalent higher degree is preferred, but not required.
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Wiley is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We evaluate all qualified applicants and treat all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Wiley is also committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact tasupport@wiley.com for assistance.
We are proud that our workplace promotes continual learning and internal mobility. Our values support courageous teammates, needle movers, and learning champions all while striving to support the health and well-being of all employees. We offer meeting-free Friday afternoons allowing more time for heads down work and professional development, and through a robust body of employee programming we facilitate a wide range of opportunities to foster community, learn, and grow.
We are committed to fair, transparent pay, and we strive to provide competitive compensation in addition to a comprehensive benefits package. The range below represents Wiley's good faith and reasonable estimate of the base pay for this role at the time of posting roles in the United Kingdom, Canada, USA, Austria, Czechia, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, or Spain. It is anticipated that most qualified candidates will fall within the range, however the ultimate salary offered for this role may be higher or lower and will be set based on a variety of non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.
When applying, please attach your resume/CV to be considered.
Salary Range:
25,600.00 GBP to 34,933.33 GBP #LI-JG2
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