Education Specialist

Cambridge University Press is seeking an Education Specialist in New Delhi, India, to support the OET Commercial team. The role involves developing educational strategies, engaging with stakeholders, promoting OET in the education sector, and managing content development. Responsibilities include attending conferences, conducting workshops, and collaborating with sales and marketing teams. Travel across South Asia is required, and the position is a permanent full-time role.
Position Title:

Education Specialist – India

Business Unit /Department:

OET Commercial

Location:

India

Reports to: (Position Title)

Regional Manager – South Asia (dotted line to Head of Education, Melbourne)

No. of Direct Reports:

0

No. of Indirect Reports:

0

Employment Mode:

Permanent FT

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Permanent PT

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Casual

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Fixed Term FT

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Fixed Term PT

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Independent Contractor

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Position Purpose

The Education Specialist facilitates the teaching, content and training requirements of the Indian business development plan and other strategic goals of CBLA. You will be supporting the Regional Manager in the India and the global Commercial Team in a range of of localized plans and initiatives through coordination with the Global Education Team and external stakeholders which may include language schools and universities. This will entail developing new pathways to ensure that opportunities with external stakeholders will convert into projects as well as providing expert advise to the Global Education Team on the demands of the Indian market.

Responsibilities & Accountabilities

OET Educational Strategy

· Devise and implement an Educational strategy that helps drive revenue and grow market share for CBLA through the teaching and learning of OET

· Monitor trends within the English Language Teaching and Assessment sectors to ensure CBLA follows best pedagogic practice for teacher training and candidate preparation

· Actively seek out new Educational opportunities for OET in existing and new markets that will assist with driving revenue

· Engaging with Indian strategic partners to create content from A1 to B1 CEFR level

Promote and Establish OET in the Education Sector:

· Attend and present at educational conferences

· Develop and run teacher training and candidate workshops in key markets as required

· Work closely with the Sales and Marketing teams to provide quality preparation content to use as promotional currency in the market, including via social media channels etc.

· Seek out and convert opportunities to have OET ‘embedded' into curricula in higher education sectors, through consulting on curriculum design

· Work with NEAS and other educational regulators to further increase OET's standing in the sector, via joint initiatives, special projects etc.

· Travel across South Asia is a requirement of the role

Product Portfolio Management & Content Development:

· Actively drive and support CBLA's wider goals for product diversification through the development of OET preparation content and resources

· Management of the Preparation Provider Programme; ensure the commercial benefits of PPP are maximised through promotion of the program and creation of timely and effective new content that is fit for purpose in a diverse range of markets for CBLA.

· Oversee quality of preparation materials submitted by providers and/or used by OET candidates preparing for OET

· Actively seek out new partnerships to grow the volume of OET preparation materials available in the market in line with CBLA strategy; including vendor management, contract negotiation, publishing plan management, quality assurance review functions.

Test Modernisation

· Devise and implement change management strategies as required to ensure candidates, teachers and other stakeholders react positively to changes to assessment criteria, layout, format etc. of OET as required

· Ensure all preparation material, as well as teaching resources are updated as required to accurately reflect any updates to OET as required.

Decisions and Recommendations

Describe what sort of decisions the job holder makes without reference to their manager.

Decisions to be made in consultation with line manager

Describe what sort of recommendations the job holder makes to their manager and others.

The job holder will make recommendations that have a positive effect to the Educational Strategy of OET and this may include but not limited to recommendations relating to curriculum development, teacher training programs, candidate workshops and strategic partnerships.

Budgets

Direct costs

Budgets set and controlled by position

The job holder in consultation with line manager will develop an engagement plan that informs the parameters of the budget.

Indirect costs
Indirect costs that the position may authorise spending on budget, delegated by budget holder

As per line manager advice

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Qualifications

· Educated to degree level but Masters Degree preferred

Years of experience

· 5 or more years relevant experience in high stakes English Test Preparation

Skills and Experience

Skills
• Substantial experience in innovatively designing, managing and evaluating education testing programs and preparation materials
• Strong leadership with the ability to deliver on key strategic goals
• Ability to devise and implement change management strategies to achieve set targets
• Creativity to lead and support webinars
• Confident and engaging public speaker
• CELTA / TESOL level certification is mandatory

Experience
• Experience delivering and attending education conferences
• Proven ability to devise strategies for education business development
• Familiarity with health care practices and testing material

Technical Competencies
• Very proficient in MS Office
• Very Proficient in CRM / Salesforce

Additional Information