2025-08-12
Oxford University Press
Other
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employee
contract
New York City
New York
10002
United States
Oxford University Press
Commissioning/Acquisitions
Posted: Aug 11, 2025
Full Time
New York City, NY, USA
We are the world’s largest university press. We have both a worldwide reach and a personal understanding of local needs, partnering on the ground to adapt publications and resources to meet the individual needs of communities, societies, and countries. We partner with researchers, educators, and technology partners to stay ahead of the changing ways people around the world are accessing and sharing knowledge. With a presence in more than 50 countries and millions of customers around the world, an idea launched at OUP can have a global impact.
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Advancing Knowledge and Learning
ABOUT THE ROLE
We’re thrilled to offer an exciting opportunity to join Oxford University Press as Acquisition Editor for Public Health within the Academic Division’s Research Books Editorial team. This impactful role reports to the Executive Editor, Social Sciences, working within the Social and Behavioral Sciences editorial group, while representing OUP’s award-winning list in the US and abroad.
This is a particularly dynamic moment to come into this role, as our field-leading, interdisciplinary Public Health program is poised for growth, with room to explore new areas and innovative publishing formats.
As Acquisition Editor, you’ll collaborate closely with talented colleagues across Research Editorial and the wider Press—including Product, Rights & Translations, Production, Sales, Marketing, and Publicity. You’ll also engage regularly with a vibrant network of external partners: authors and editors, editorial boards, reviewers, OUP Delegates and University stakeholders, policy makers, think tanks, research funders, professional bodies, scholarly societies, and the broader academic community.
With a strong focus on proactive content acquisition aligned with market needs and our evolving publishing portfolio, this role plays a key part in advancing OUP’s mission and enhancing our scholarly and public impact. You’ll also have the opportunity to help shape the future of academic publishing as we respond to changing research, reading, and writing practices across disciplines.
ABOUT YOU
BENEFITS
We care about work/life balance at OUP. We offer 15 days’ vacation time that rises with service, 8 sick days, plus floating holidays, personal days, company holidays, and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect of working hours and the use of technology to support regular remote working, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.
We care for you and your dependents by offering health, dental, and vision insurance plans to our full-time employees. Each plan has multiple levels of coverage to fit your needs and has a high level of contribution made by OUP. In addition, we offer Employee Assistant Programs for all full-time employees, regardless of whether you elect in health insurance. We also offer life insurance and disability insurance.
We help make your money go further by providing a non-elective contribution on your behalf to your retirement plan of 7% of your salary and a matching contribution to the retirement plan of 50% on the first 6% of employee contributions on based earnings.
Position Location: This role can be hybrid, based out of New York, NY or remote in the United States.
GJC Level: I6 (for internal purposes only)
Salary: $67,844 - $96,000 dependent on skills and experience
We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.
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