Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Job Title: Operations Support Manager
Salary: £29,700 - £38,550
Location: Cambridge/Whittlesford UK – Hybrid with 40-60% of time in the office
Contract: Fixed Term/Secondment (12 months)
Hours: Full time 35 hours per week
At Cambridge, our work helps millions of learners worldwide demonstrate their English language skills and achieve their ambitions. We're looking for an experienced and inspiring people leader to join our Assessment Operations team, where you'll lead and develop colleagues while ensuring the smooth, accurate, and customer-focused delivery of Cambridge English Qualifications.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a genuine impact through team leadership, operational excellence, and continuous improvement. Working within a collaborative and supportive culture, you'll empower colleagues to succeed, drive high-quality service delivery, contribute to strategic initiatives, and help shape an environment where individuals can grow, innovate, and perform at their best.
About The Role
This role is responsible for leading and developing a team of Assessment Operations Coordinators and Senior Assessment Operations Coordinators to ensure the accurate, efficient, and customer-focused delivery of Cambridge English Qualifications examinations. The post holder oversees business-critical assessment processes, supports operational excellence through effective people management, and drives compliance with regulatory and quality standards while ensuring high levels of service for internal and external stakeholders.
Working collaboratively across the organisation, the role combines day-to-day operational leadership with continuous improvement activity, including process documentation, training delivery, risk management, and operational change initiatives. The successful candidate will empower colleagues to perform at their best, contribute to strategic improvements, and help ensure the successful delivery of assessment services that support Cambridge's global mission.
Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include:
- Leading and developing a team of Assessment Operations Coordinators and Senior Coordinators.
- Monitoring workload, quality, and delivery against agreed deadlines.
- Managing recruitment, onboarding, training, and performance support.
- Identifying, investigating, and mitigating operational risks and issues.
- Ensuring compliance with regulatory and business processes.
- Creating, reviewing, and approving process documentation and work instructions.
- Driving continuous improvement to processes, documentation, and ways of working.
- Building strong relationships with internal teams and external stakeholders.
- Supporting the resolution of customer queries and escalations.
- Delivering training, inductions, and ongoing capability development.
- Contributing to operational improvement initiatives and project activities.
- Promoting a positive, inclusive, and high-performing team culture.
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This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition.
About You
We are seeking a candidate with proven experience in leading operational teams and delivering high-quality service within a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will be able to manage multiple priorities, drive process improvements, and support colleagues effectively while ensuring operational standards are maintained. Strong communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills are essential, along with the ability to adapt to change and motivate others to achieve team objectives.
Required experience and skills:
- Experience leading, motivating, and developing teams.
- Strong customer service and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience managing operational processes and procedures.
- Proven ability to identify and implement process improvements.
- Experience managing risks, issues, and competing priorities.
If you meet the above minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate the following desirable criteria:
- Project management qualification or relevant project experience.
- Strong data analysis and reporting capabilities.
- Experience creating process and training documentation.
- Experience using SAP and/or Visio.
- Knowledge of Cambridge English Qualifications and assessment operations.
For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.
Equal Opportunities and Commitment to Inclusion
We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable and/or appropriate, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition.
Please note that Cambridge University Press & Assessment will not ordinarily be able to provide sponsorship for vacancies of less than 12-months in duration. Applicants must therefore have an existing right to work in the UK to be eligible for this position.
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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
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Recruitment Process
We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be Wednesday, 7 October. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place on the week commencing Wednesday, 14 October.
If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect:
- 1 interview round in the office
- Potential 2nd interview if needed
If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is 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 is 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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