Careers Ministry Partnerships Manager

Join Cambridge as a Ministry Partnerships Manager, where you'll play a crucial role in fostering relationships with national examination boards and ministries of education. This position offers the opportunity to build and maintain excellent relationships with our international partners and work with different teams across Cambridge to ensure that the partners receive an excellent service from us., We work with partner organisations such as national exam boards and education ministries around the world to help them to produce high quality assessment systems. As our next Ministry Partnerships Manager, you will lead on identifying and managing Cambridge's expertise to provide excellent services to our partners to achieve their aims. As part of this role, you will:

• Support contract delivery and quality assurance processes.
• Agree and develop annual activity plans. Coordinate teams to ensure effective delivery.
• Be the main point of contact with the partner, chair internal and external meetings, lead on contractual discussions.
• Manage financial procedures related to contracts, including invoicing.
  
  You will have a genuine interest in international education and assessment and a desire to work in partnership to ensure access to high quality for all. You will be a clear communicator (both written and oral) with an ability to develop effective working relationships with a wide variety of people both inside and outside the organisation.
You will have good project management, budgeting, research and evaluation skills. You are comfortable working with diverse teams in an international context using your cross-cultural awareness, leadership and diplomacy to deliver high quality services to our partners.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge., Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for. 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.

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