Job Title: Senior Contracts Manager, IELTS Contracts Team
Salary: £43,800 – £58,500 per annum
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (2-3 Days Per Week)
Contract: Permanent, Full-time, 35 hours per week
The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Contracts Team is responsible for maintaining contracts with government or commercial bodies acting through the IELTS SELT Consortium (ISC) or as Cambridge University Press and Assessment. The Senior Contracts Manager plays a key role in managing and ensuring compliance (regulatory and contractual) of key IELTS contracts, primarily but not exclusively, the SELT contract with UKVI (Home Office).
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
About the role
Working closely with the Contracts Lead as well as the CE Head of Regulation, the role is responsible for:
* Ensuring risk and compliance are appropriately escalated and communicated between the IELTS Contracts Team and the IELTS cross partner working groups, managing communications and reporting across multi-level groups they manage and track activities for effective contract management.
* Having a detailed understanding of the SELT (and future HOELT) contract details, and other contracts as applicable, and to work with the Contracts Lead to ensure operational and regulatory adherence across the IELTS partnership.
* Playing a pivotal role in relationship management through senior stakeholder and key document management (operational and contractual).
* Working closely with cross partner functional teams to ensure network compliance with contractual requirements escalating to and working with senior external stakeholders where issues arise to reach resolution.
* Deputising for the Contracts Lead as required and to act as deputy ISC Concession Manager as needed, carrying out essential activities and communications with stakeholders, including the IELTS Partners, the IELTS Board, the English Board, the Home Office, DOHA etc.
* Playing a pivotal role in the implementation plans of any new incoming contracts which will require the development and roll out of cross partner procedures and ways of working.
About you
You have a proven track record in reviewing data and producing accurate reports. You excel at motivating individuals, influencing key stakeholders, and building strong relationships across multiple groups. Your excellent interpersonal skills and stakeholder management enable you to effectively engage with colleagues at all levels, both internally and externally.
As our Senior Contract Manager, you have demonstrated experience in contract management, preferably within the publishing or education sectors. Your written and oral communication skills are exceptional. You are adept at creating and maintaining operational and regulatory documentation, leading meetings, and giving presentations. You work accurately and at a fast pace, and you are skilled at making decisions regarding information categorisation, escalation, and distribution, as well as providing recommendations on possible implications and risks.
If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy 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
We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being Wednesday 9th April 2025 although we may close it earlier if suitable candidates are identified. Interviews are scheduled to take place on Tuesday 15th April 2025.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
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.
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