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<div><b>Job Title: Digital Development Manager</b>, <b>Dictionaries, </b></div>
<div><b>Global Academic Business,</b> <b>Oxford University Press</b></div>
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<div>Location: Oxford, United Kingdom, OX2 6DP</div>
<div>Closing date for applications: 23 September 2011</div>
<div>Applications to: <a href="http://ukjobs.oup.com"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#0000FF"><u>http://ukjobs.oup.com</u></font></a></div>
<div>Queries to: judy.pearsall@oup.com</div>
<div>Salary: depending on skills and experience</div>
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<div><b>Job description</b></div>
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<div>Are you a talented and innovative apps developer with ideas about apps for dictionaries and language? If so, Oxford University Press may have the job for you. As the world’s most successful dictionary makers, we are seeking to recruit a Digital Development
Manager to lead mobile and digital dictionary development within our wider Language Technology group. </div>
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<div>As Digital Development Manager you will be responsible for individual and composite digital projects, gathering requirements and defining scope, and working with inhouse project managers and external contractors to deliver a range of mobile and other applications
such as APIs to time and budget. You will have strong development skills across a range of platforms and an excellent knowledge of the market and how it is changing. </div>
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<div>You will work with editorial, marketing, and data teams to maximize the potential of Oxford dictionary and language data and create cutting-edge functionality in digital products. A flexible and dynamic approach to problem solving, good communication skills,
and an ability to interact effectively with contractors, editors, and marketers are essential.</div>
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<div><b>Skills and experience</b></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify; ">Essential: </div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">• Educated to Degree level or equivalent </div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">• Excellent project management skills</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">• A background in mobile application development, internet software, or games</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">• Sound knowledge of the wider apps market beyond a single platform or technology</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">• Experience of using or deploying Internet APIs</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">• Experience of handling and transforming structured data; good data skills: XML, JSON </div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">Desirable: </div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">• Understanding of lexical data</div>
<div style="text-align: justify; ">• Knowledge of languages other than English</div>
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<div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2">Pete Whitelock</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2">Head of Language Engineering, Dictionaries</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2">Reference Department</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2">Academic Division</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, monospace" size="2">Oxford University Press</font></div>
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