We're interested in hearing from people who can bring a blend of technical knowledge, operational excellence, and leadership experience.

You'll likely have:

• Strong experience working with XML technologies and scholarly publishing standards, including JATS, BITS, XPath, XSLT, and Schematron.
• A deep understanding of scholarly publishing workflows, metadata standards, and content lifecycle management.
• Experience managing content dissemination and delivery workflows using content delivery systems, APIs, system integrations, and SFTP-based transfers.
• Knowledge of industry infrastructure and metadata organisations such as Crossref, ORCID, CHORUS, CLOCKSS, Portico, and NISO.
• Experience delivering content, metadata, or publishing platform projects and translating business requirements into operational solutions.
• Proven people management experience, with a passion for developing and supporting others.

You'll thrive in this role if you are:

• A natural problem solver who enjoys tackling complex technical and operational challenges.
• An effective communicator who can build strong relationships across teams and with external partners.
• Comfortable making decisions and balancing competing priorities.
• Motivated by continuous improvement and delivering high-quality outcomes.

We know it is unusual for someone to tick every box so if you don’t meet all the criteria but demonstrate most of the skills and experience we are looking for, and have the enthusiasm to work with us, go ahead and apply.

We aim to review applications soon after they are received and will arrange interviews when there’s someone we’re keen to meet, therefore we may conduct interviews prior to the closing date and reserve the right to close the advert early.

Why work with us at IOP Publishing:

• Purpose: We are a world leader in the development of publishing for the scientific community - working in the interests of science and scientists, we aim to maximise the impact of the research we publish.
• Culture: We offer a truly international culture with offices in Europe, Asia and the US and our reach is global. Our culture is the perfect blend of dedicated and intelligent professionalism, informal, friendly collaboration and authenticity with a social conscience.
• Financial Benefits: A competitive salary starting from £50,000 (Band C) depending on experience, an excellent pension scheme, a discretionary annual bonus scheme, and a range of other useful and cost-saving benefits available through our benefits platform.
• Health and Wellbeing: 33+ days holiday (including bank holidays), a 35-hour working week, life assurance, cycle-to-work scheme, dental insurance, health care cash plan, and a great positive working environment in our brand-new office in central Bristol - modern airy and designed with all of our colleagues in mind – for work and social time.
• Flexibility: A flexible hybrid working environment to suit everyone’s needs. As there will not be a requirement for the person in this role to be in the office on a weekly basis, we are open to considering applicants from a wider geographical area who are happy to travel to Bristol for quarterly meetings, annual appraisals, one to one and team meetings, subject to business needs. (any travel to the Bristol office is at the employees expense).
• And last but not least, did we mention that we are unique: IOP Publishing is central to the Institute of Physics, a not-for-profit society and we gift-aid all our profits to support science through the activities of the Institute.

To apply, please submit your CV through our careers site.

IOP Publishing is an equal opportunity employer. Our goal is to ensure that diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) are built into our identity in a way that is natural and sustainable, visible through the work we produce, our company branding, our professional networks and the communities we serve and support, which includes our employees, talent communities and candidates. We particularly welcome applicants from under-represented backgrounds.

We make recruitment and workplace adjustments wherever we can, so please let us know if there’s anything that we can do to support you.

Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for candidates. If however you already have the right to work in the UK or hold an eligible work permit or visa, we encourage you to apply for this position.