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Job Title: Senior Programme Manager
Salary: £46,200 - £61,800 per annum
Location: Cambridge, UK/Hybrid – at least 2 days per week working from the office in Cambridge
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full Time – 35 hours per week
Are you an experienced programme leader who can bring clarity to complexity, develop high-performing teams and successfully deliver a commercially important portfolio?
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
As Senior Programme Manager, you will lead the successful delivery of our portfolio of adaptation projects and programmes within International Education. You will oversee resource and delivery planning, ensuring the team has the capacity and capability to meet business priorities, while maintaining appropriate oversight of quality, risk and delivery commitments.
Working collaboratively across business functions, you will represent Learning Solutions at senior stakeholder meetings, working groups and steering groups, providing clear reporting on performance, progress, risks and challenges to support informed decision-making. You will also have direct line management responsibility for the project management team, setting clear expectations, supporting individual development and building a high-performing, collaborative global team.
Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include:
Salary: £46,200 - £61,800 per annum
Location: Cambridge, UK/Hybrid – at least 2 days per week working from the office in Cambridge
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full Time – 35 hours per week
Are you an experienced programme leader who can bring clarity to complexity, develop high-performing teams and successfully deliver a commercially important portfolio?
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
As Senior Programme Manager, you will lead the successful delivery of our portfolio of adaptation projects and programmes within International Education. You will oversee resource and delivery planning, ensuring the team has the capacity and capability to meet business priorities, while maintaining appropriate oversight of quality, risk and delivery commitments.
Working collaboratively across business functions, you will represent Learning Solutions at senior stakeholder meetings, working groups and steering groups, providing clear reporting on performance, progress, risks and challenges to support informed decision-making. You will also have direct line management responsibility for the project management team, setting clear expectations, supporting individual development and building a high-performing, collaborative global team.
Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include:
- Leading resource and delivery planning across the adaptation portfolio, balancing business priorities, team capacity and delivery requirements.
- Supporting the development of new adaptation opportunities, assessing their feasibility, delivery approach, resource requirements, timelines, costs and operational risks.
- Working directly with customers and partners to understand requirements and shape practical, scalable solutions, translating agreed propositions into clear delivery plans.
- Providing effective portfolio governance and risk management, ensuring risks, dependencies and delivery challenges are identified, communicated and managed appropriately.
- Driving continuous improvement across workflows, processes and ways of working, ensuring our approach evolves in response to changing customer and business needs.
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
You are a confident and adaptable leader who enjoys working in a complex, international environment. Collaborative in your approach, you'll be comfortable bringing people together, responding to changing needs and helping teams work effectively towards shared goals.
To be successful in this role, you will have:
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.
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.
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:
We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be 26th November 2026. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place week commencing 7th December 2026.
If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect:
About You
You are a confident and adaptable leader who enjoys working in a complex, international environment. Collaborative in your approach, you'll be comfortable bringing people together, responding to changing needs and helping teams work effectively towards shared goals.
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Extensive experience leading complex projects and programmes from planning through to delivery.
- Proven experience managing multiple programmes, priorities and dependencies, including significant risks, change and delivery challenges.
- Experience leading and developing teams, with accountability for performance, capability and resources.
- Strong stakeholder leadership and influencing skills, with confidence working with senior leaders, customers and cross-functional teams.
- Strong decision-making and problem-solving experience, with the ability to maintain delivery through complexity and competing priorities.
- Experience working with ministries, regulatory bodies or international approval boards
- Experience shaping new propositions or services before delivery
- Experience working directly with external customers or partners to shape solutions
- Experience of leading geographically dispersed teams across multiple regions, functions or time zones.
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.
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.
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 aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be 26th November 2026. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place week commencing 7th December 2026.
If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect:
- A 30-minute task designed to assess skills relevant to the role, followed by a 45-minute interview featuring a mix of competency and skills-based questions, giving you the opportunity to demonstrate your experience and suitability for the role. This will take place at our office in Cambridge.
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.
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.
