Commissioning Editor - Built Environment - Maternity Cover

Commissioning Editor - Built Environment - Maternity Cover

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Routledge/Taylor and Francis has an exciting fixed-term maternity cover vacancy for the position of Commissioning Editor on its Built Environment Research list. This is an excellent opportunity to build on your commissioning experience and progress your career.

Working alongside a team of three other Editors, this position involves the proactive commissioning of monographs and handbooks across a range of built environment topics including Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning.

What you'll be doing:

• Commissioning new books both through existing contacts and generating new leads
• Managing contracted titles to schedule and to budget
• Liaising with internal and external colleagues to further the success of the list
• Representing Routledge at conferences and other events
• Maintaining an Editorial Assistant based in Delhi
• Experience of commissioning academic books would be preferred; though extensive commissioning experience is not necessarily essential.

Qualifications

• What we're looking for:

• The successful applicant should possess strong commercial awareness,

• Exhibit an aptitude for highly organised teamwork

• Collegiate attitude towards the sharing of projects and ideas

• The ability to work towards demanding targets is essential.

• Additional Information What we offer in return:

• An excellent work/life balance with a fantastic, flexible working culture

• 25 days annual leave per year plus a day off for your birthday

• 3 additional discretionary days off during the holiday season at the end of the year

• 4 paid volunteering days each year

• Company funded single cover private medical insurance

• Employee assistance programme – offering 24/7 well-being support

• Share Match – Plan that matches every share purchased with two free shares.

• Pension scheme

• Life assurance, plus optical and medical care What you should know:

• Closing date for applications: 20th November 2026

• Applications are shortlisted on a rolling basis, and we will be shortlisting alongside advertising. We, therefore, encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity.

• You must have the right to live and work in the UK.

• This is a hybrid position, with a requirement to work from our Milton Park, Oxfordshire office 3 days each week. To support this working arrangement, we can only consider applicants who are based within a reasonable commuting distance.

• Please note: Our Milton Park office will be relocating from Milton Park Abingdon to Oxford City Centre in late 2027 / early 2028, offering an exciting new workplace in the heart of the city.

Training And Professional Development:

• We’re passionate about ensuring you have all the tools and resources at your fingertips to reach your short and long-term career goals. We’ll support you in your journey by working together on your own bespoke Taylor & Francis Development Plan, ensuring you have the resources, tools, support and coaching that will get you where you want to be.

Interview process:

• Once you have submitted your application, we may get in touch with you for an initial screening conversation or ask you to complete a short video interview to enable us to better understand your skills, experience, and motivation. Following this, you will be invited to attend a competency-based interview, either virtually or in person. Typically, we’d then finish the interview process with a final, 2nd stage interview before extending an offer to the successful applicant.

• We want all our candidates to shine in our recruitment process. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to ensure you are able to show us your best self. This could include having the application form in a different format, more time for questions, or anything else – please ask us, we are happy to be flexible!