Special Requirements Manager

Location: Cambridge, Coventry, hybrid

Contract: Full time, permanent, 35 hours per week

Are you passionate about ensuring fair access to education for all students? Do you thrive in roles where you can drive innovation and collaborate with diverse stakeholders to make a difference?

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 the Special Requirements Manager, you'll lead efforts to uphold our commitment to inclusive education. Working alongside an experienced team, you'll oversee critical processes, generate valuable insights, and provide expert guidance to ensure that students with disabilities or disadvantages receive the support they need.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead access arrangements, reasonable adjustments, and special consideration processes


• Extract actionable insights from special requirements procedures, collaborating with OCR leaders to enhance our offerings and customer support


• Provide expert advice to internal and external stakeholders on special needs processes


• Collaborate with customers, stakeholders, and other awarding organisations to help shape JCQ requirements related to special requirements.


About you

You are an experienced education professional with an understanding of qualifications and the challenges faced by students with special educational needs.

Alongside your knowledge of education, you will have strong organisational and leadership skills, with the ability to analyse and adapt to complex situations. You are also experienced in dealing with sensitive and difficult topics empathetically.

If you're passionate about equitable education and ready to contribute to meaningful change, we want to hear from you.

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 scheme


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 27 May 2024 and interviews are scheduled to take place w/c 10 June 2024.

We carry out interviews on a rolling basis during this campaign. If we source a suitable candidate early, there is a possibility the advert will close earlier than the date advertised.

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.

You are an experienced education professional with an understanding of qualifications and the challenges faced by students with special educational needs.

Alongside your knowledge of education, you will have strong organisational and leadership skills, with the ability to analyse and adapt to complex situations. You are also experienced in dealing with sensitive and difficult topics empathetically.

If you're passionate about equitable education and ready to contribute to meaningful change, we want to hear from you.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge., We carry out interviews on a rolling basis during this campaign. If we source a suitable candidate early, there is a possibility the advert will close earlier than the date advertised.

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.

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 scheme


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.