Distribution Assistant

Job Title: Distribution Assistant - DC10 

Salary: £22,454 

Location: Duxford, Cambridge  

Contract: 2 x Fixed Term Contracts until 31st December 2024

We are looking for x2 Distribution Assistants to join us at Group Print and Operations, where you will play a vital role in ensuring our examination material reaches our learners all over the world. 

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 a Distribution Assistant at Post Exams, you will be responsible for ensuring timely delivery of examination results to our learners, accurate processing of data, and secure distribution of certificates. You will support your supervisor in handling assessment materials and collaborate across different departments within Group Print and Operations to maintain high levels of accuracy and quality. 

The Distribution Assistant role involves a range of duties that may involve office-based work or standing and walking for extended periods. This position is crucial in guaranteeing the prompt and efficient delivery of assessments to our international network of learners, playing a key role in the learner's journey. 

This role may require shift work for part of the year, depending on organisational need. The standard working hours are 8.30am – 4.15pm Monday – Friday (3pm finish on Friday's). Shift times are a rotation of early shift (6am – 1.30pm) and late shift (1.45pm – 9.15pm) Monday – Friday (early finishes on both shifts on Friday's) and you will receive a shift premium of 20%.   
 

About you 

You will be flexible and passionate about the role we play, going above and beyond to get it right for learners, dedicated to upholding standards and open to views of our customers, partners and colleagues. 

You will be confident with the ability to motivate and take the lead on processes, along with being an energetic and enthusiastic team player who is able to effectively communicate to all members of staff as well as visitors. 

You will have excellent time management skills with the ability to work under pressure. As well as good computer, numeracy, and literacy skills. 

You will have an understanding of Health, Safety and Wellbeing and be able to strictly follow our procedures. All roles require complete commitment to Health and Safety and involve training flexible team members. 

Please view the full job description at the bottom of this advert for more information. 

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: 

• Group personal pension scheme 
• Discretionary annual bonus 
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary  
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance  
• Green travel schemes  
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays 

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.  

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being Sunday 10th March 2024. However, this is a rolling campaign, and therefore we will conduct interviews as and when candidates apply.  

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested in this exciting opportunity, we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible. 

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 unable to issue sponsorship under the Skilled Worker Visa route for this role as it does not meet the minimum skill and/or salary requirements. 

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 everyone has a voice, and where we learn continuously to improve together. Ensuring that everyone feels they belong is essential to who we are, and to the contribution we make to society and our planet.  

 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.