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Job Title: Peer Review Analyst
Salary: £29,700 - £38,550
Location: Cambridge, UK – Hybrid
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time 35 hours per week
Can you turn data into insight that helps people improve how they work?
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
As Peer Review Analyst, you will join our Editorial Operations team and help us use evidence to improve peer review across our academic journals. Your work will support practical innovation, trusted research and Cambridge's global reputation for quality.
About The Role
We are looking for a Peer Review Analyst to help us improve peer review reporting and use data to support better journal workflows. You will join a collaborative journals team and help colleagues make practical, evidence-based improvements that support robust research assessment processes.
You will develop data dashboards that help us monitor peer review performance across our journals. You will look for trends, explain what the data means, and recommend actions that help teams improve workflows, manage risks and support good peer review practice.
You will also:
- Build and maintain clear peer review reporting that highlights performance, trends and areas where action may be needed.
- Share findings and recommendations with colleagues in editorial, publishing, research integrity and related teams.
- Review journal workflows, identify areas for improvement and follow up agreed actions.
- Create clear guidance and training materials that help editors and colleagues carry out peer review processes well.
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.
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About You
You will have experience of working with data, reports and dashboards. You will be able to bring information together, explain it clearly, and use it to support improvements. You will also be organised, collaborative and confident working with different teams. You will be proficient with MS Office tools including Excel. An interest in journals, peer review or academic communication is important, but you do not need to be an expert.
Your application will be even stronger if you also have:
- Experience with Power BI or similar business intelligence tools.
- Knowledge of dashboard development, data quality and data governance.
- Knowledge of journal publishing, peer review workflows or academic communication.
- Experience using manuscript submission, peer review or publishing systems, or other operational systems containing large datasets.
- Demonstrable skills in workflow mapping and process improvement methodologies.
- Experience creating guidance or training materials for colleagues or external stakeholders.
For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert 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
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.
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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.
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be Wednesday, 30 September. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place on week commencing 7th-21st October.
If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect:
- 1 interview round in the office
- Potential 2nd interview if necessary
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.
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