Internship
URL: india.oup.com
URL: india.oup.com
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest academic publisher in the world and has an impressive history dating back to the 15th century. Our reach is constantly expanding and today we have offices in 50 countries around the globe, with over 6,000 employees to our name.
The OUP India - Global Academic Publishing Internship Programme runs for eight weeks during the summer and seeks to give interns a rich and comprehensive introduction to academic publishing. Interns work in all departments of the Press and are involved with a variety of projects in commissioning/acquisition, editorial, marketing and sales. The internship is targeted at recent graduates and final year students.
Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford University Press set up its India office in 1912. We have a rich legacy of publishing some of the best thinkers and scholars of India. To know more about OUP India and its products, please visit india.oup.com. We are offering paid internships at our Noida office across 7 main functional areas: The internship programme spans 8 weeks during the summer months.
What We Are Looking For
The work we do is fast-paced, demanding, and intellectually stimulating. We are looking for dynamic candidates with a fresh outlook and excellent analytical and communication skills. You must have the ability to work well under pressure and tight deadlines. A well-rounded academic background with coursework in social sciences, humanities, management, commerce, or sciences (including medicine) is recommended.
Commissioning
The Commissioning team is responsible for building up a publisher’s list for specific genres. At OUP India, we work mainly on social sciences, law, medicine, and trade books. The commissioning editors are the key link between the initial proposal for a book submitted by a prospective author or product and the published work, including post-publication sales, marketing, and author management. The job requires sound subject knowledge, good business sense, analytical and assessment skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to juggle various tasks.
An intern would be taken through the following core areas of the profile:
• Assessing book proposals and manuscripts
• Doing the profit-and-loss analysis of a product
• Understanding the contractual process and the contract • Market/readership analysis
• Liaising with authors, reviewers, desk editors, designer, sales and marketing teams, and finance/accounts teams.
The intern will experience how a book idea is converted into a product.
Internship period: 6 May to 28 June 2019
Editorial
One can never overemphasize the importance of Editorial in the publishing industry. It is the editors who sieve through the text, lay it out, and bring it to life for the readers. Being an editor entails the challenge of balancing time and quality; deadlines and meticulousness; and presentation and substance. To be able to succeed in Editorial, you should have very high attention to detail, excellent academic credentials and communication skills, and top-notch time management and multitasking skills. As an intern with the Editorial department, you will get the opportunity to work on:
• Copyediting manuscripts written by some of the best minds of India
• Quality checking edited manuscripts to ensure that they meet the high standards of OUP
• Writing book blurbs that compel the reader to buy the book
• Giving ideas for cover designs that make our books stand out as a beautiful product
• Proofreading manuscripts to ensure that they are ready for the market and the reader
• Proofreading marketing materials to ensure accurate and appropriate information
Internship period: 6 May to 28 June 2019
Production
Production is one of the core functions of a publishing house in which we are responsible for multiple tasks, starting from typesetting of a manuscript to its final publication. The team is responsible for converting a manuscript to a book. The job is always challenging in terms of balancing deadlines and ensuring quality besides being meticulous. To be a successful production professional, one should have technical understanding of typography, software such as InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat Professional, and Pit Stop, and a thorough knowledge of paper and print management. As an intern with the Production department, the work you undertake will involve:
• Creating a cast-off that gives a tentative page extent of a raw manuscript
• Preparing the cost estimate of a project for profitability and sharing information with all stakeholders
• Typography to ensure that a typeset page looks good and ensures readability
• Image correction to ensure that images are printed well in the final product
• Preflight checking of a file to ensure the printability of a PDF
• Colour management
• Quality assurance in printing, binding, packaging, etc.
Students from a printing technology background will be given preference.
Internship period: 2 April to 24 May 2019
Marketing
The Marketing team creates innovative marketing strategies to engage audiences with the firm’s products. The ability to prioritize and adjust to varying workloads is important, as well as adaptability and flexibility. A good level of reading and editing skills are required to enable a person to quickly prepare communications to sell products. An internship in Marketing may include:
• Assisting on specific marketing campaigns—working to the brief and within budget. This may include product and discipline marketing, direct marketing, publicity, trade and other promotions, e-marketing campaigns, etc.
• Branding and communications support, including preparing and designing of catalogues, flyers, leaflets, etc.
• Building knowledge of authors and an awareness of competitors' and own performance (strategy/revenue/ profitability, etc.) in order to develop marketing plans accordingly
• Supporting authors (including author letters, assistance with events and launches, invites, etc.)
• Identifying and contacting potential partners for tie-ups and promotions.
Preference will be given to candidates from a management/marketing background.
Internship period: 2 April to 24 May 2019
Design
One of the most exciting aspects of a book’s publication is the design of its cover. The Design team is responsible for making the cover eye-catching; it helps to grab the reader’s attention. To be a successful designer, one should have the technical understanding of software, such as InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator, and a good knowledge of illustration and typography. As an intern in the Design department, you will get the opportunity to:
• Understand a cover brief and convert it into an impactful cover design
• Design one or more covers for the Press
• Understand the relation between type/font and photograph • Understand the language of colours and photos • Design the inside pages of a product
• Work on designing digital content • Incorporate changes recommended by the editors/authors into the final design
• Review designs for errors before printing or publishing them We are looking for candidates who can think and develop concepts and illustrations and create designs either by hand or by using computer software packages.
Internship period: 6 May to 28 June 2019
Sales
The Sales team works on the sales and product-collection budgets through year-round product and customer promotions and customer-focused management of the territories across India. An internship in Sales may include:
• Assisting the Sales team in institutional promotion, customer support and management, and other planned promotions to relevant channels and customers
• Following devised plans and strategies to drive the demand for our titles through engagement at faculty and library level
• Supporting the Sales team to achieve the regional sales target for the division Preference will be given to candidates from a management/sales background.
Internship period: 2 April to 24 May 2019
Demand Planning
The Demand Planning department comprises three distinct functions:
• Demand Planning
• Reprints Manufacturing
• Publications/Title Management
The internship programme will provide you with an understanding of the fundamentals of demand management and planning, process flows, and roles/responsibilities and accountabilities, which include product classification, data analysis, demand forecasting, inventory planning, and order planning. We are a key back-office department that interacts with every other department in OUP. Preference will be given to candidates with a management background, especially in logistics, operations, inventory management, and demand planning.
Internship period: 2 April to 24 May 2019
Application Process and Next Steps
The application and selection process has three stages:
1. Application
2. Interview
3. Selection Application
Please email the following documents to Geetanjali.Negi@oup.com latest by 12 November 2018
i. Your CV
ii. A covering letter explaining why you are interested in an internship at OUP and the functional area in which you are interested. Applications not indicating the functional area will not be considered.
Interview
There will be a single interview that will take place either in person or via Skype or video conferencing.
Selection
Only selected candidates will be notified through an email about the joining date and other details.
Application Timeline
Application opens 12 October 2018
Application closes 12 November 2018
Interview calls sent out December 2018
Interviews conducted and offer sent December 2018
Internship begins for Marketing, Sales, Production, and Demand Planning 2 April 2019
Internship begins for Commissioning, Editorial, and Design 6 May 2019
What We Are Looking For
The work we do is fast-paced, demanding, and intellectually stimulating. We are looking for dynamic candidates with a fresh outlook and excellent analytical and communication skills. You must have the ability to work well under pressure and tight deadlines. A well-rounded academic background with coursework in social sciences, humanities, management, commerce, or sciences (including medicine) is recommended.
Commissioning
The Commissioning team is responsible for building up a publisher’s list for specific genres. At OUP India, we work mainly on social sciences, law, medicine, and trade books. The commissioning editors are the key link between the initial proposal for a book submitted by a prospective author or product and the published work, including post-publication sales, marketing, and author management. The job requires sound subject knowledge, good business sense, analytical and assessment skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to juggle various tasks.
An intern would be taken through the following core areas of the profile:
• Assessing book proposals and manuscripts
• Doing the profit-and-loss analysis of a product
• Understanding the contractual process and the contract • Market/readership analysis
• Liaising with authors, reviewers, desk editors, designer, sales and marketing teams, and finance/accounts teams.
The intern will experience how a book idea is converted into a product.
Internship period: 6 May to 28 June 2019
Editorial
One can never overemphasize the importance of Editorial in the publishing industry. It is the editors who sieve through the text, lay it out, and bring it to life for the readers. Being an editor entails the challenge of balancing time and quality; deadlines and meticulousness; and presentation and substance. To be able to succeed in Editorial, you should have very high attention to detail, excellent academic credentials and communication skills, and top-notch time management and multitasking skills. As an intern with the Editorial department, you will get the opportunity to work on:
• Copyediting manuscripts written by some of the best minds of India
• Quality checking edited manuscripts to ensure that they meet the high standards of OUP
• Writing book blurbs that compel the reader to buy the book
• Giving ideas for cover designs that make our books stand out as a beautiful product
• Proofreading manuscripts to ensure that they are ready for the market and the reader
• Proofreading marketing materials to ensure accurate and appropriate information
Internship period: 6 May to 28 June 2019
Production
Production is one of the core functions of a publishing house in which we are responsible for multiple tasks, starting from typesetting of a manuscript to its final publication. The team is responsible for converting a manuscript to a book. The job is always challenging in terms of balancing deadlines and ensuring quality besides being meticulous. To be a successful production professional, one should have technical understanding of typography, software such as InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat Professional, and Pit Stop, and a thorough knowledge of paper and print management. As an intern with the Production department, the work you undertake will involve:
• Creating a cast-off that gives a tentative page extent of a raw manuscript
• Preparing the cost estimate of a project for profitability and sharing information with all stakeholders
• Typography to ensure that a typeset page looks good and ensures readability
• Image correction to ensure that images are printed well in the final product
• Preflight checking of a file to ensure the printability of a PDF
• Colour management
• Quality assurance in printing, binding, packaging, etc.
Students from a printing technology background will be given preference.
Internship period: 2 April to 24 May 2019
Marketing
The Marketing team creates innovative marketing strategies to engage audiences with the firm’s products. The ability to prioritize and adjust to varying workloads is important, as well as adaptability and flexibility. A good level of reading and editing skills are required to enable a person to quickly prepare communications to sell products. An internship in Marketing may include:
• Assisting on specific marketing campaigns—working to the brief and within budget. This may include product and discipline marketing, direct marketing, publicity, trade and other promotions, e-marketing campaigns, etc.
• Branding and communications support, including preparing and designing of catalogues, flyers, leaflets, etc.
• Building knowledge of authors and an awareness of competitors' and own performance (strategy/revenue/ profitability, etc.) in order to develop marketing plans accordingly
• Supporting authors (including author letters, assistance with events and launches, invites, etc.)
• Identifying and contacting potential partners for tie-ups and promotions.
Preference will be given to candidates from a management/marketing background.
Internship period: 2 April to 24 May 2019
Design
One of the most exciting aspects of a book’s publication is the design of its cover. The Design team is responsible for making the cover eye-catching; it helps to grab the reader’s attention. To be a successful designer, one should have the technical understanding of software, such as InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator, and a good knowledge of illustration and typography. As an intern in the Design department, you will get the opportunity to:
• Understand a cover brief and convert it into an impactful cover design
• Design one or more covers for the Press
• Understand the relation between type/font and photograph • Understand the language of colours and photos • Design the inside pages of a product
• Work on designing digital content • Incorporate changes recommended by the editors/authors into the final design
• Review designs for errors before printing or publishing them We are looking for candidates who can think and develop concepts and illustrations and create designs either by hand or by using computer software packages.
Internship period: 6 May to 28 June 2019
Sales
The Sales team works on the sales and product-collection budgets through year-round product and customer promotions and customer-focused management of the territories across India. An internship in Sales may include:
• Assisting the Sales team in institutional promotion, customer support and management, and other planned promotions to relevant channels and customers
• Following devised plans and strategies to drive the demand for our titles through engagement at faculty and library level
• Supporting the Sales team to achieve the regional sales target for the division Preference will be given to candidates from a management/sales background.
Internship period: 2 April to 24 May 2019
Demand Planning
The Demand Planning department comprises three distinct functions:
• Demand Planning
• Reprints Manufacturing
• Publications/Title Management
The internship programme will provide you with an understanding of the fundamentals of demand management and planning, process flows, and roles/responsibilities and accountabilities, which include product classification, data analysis, demand forecasting, inventory planning, and order planning. We are a key back-office department that interacts with every other department in OUP. Preference will be given to candidates with a management background, especially in logistics, operations, inventory management, and demand planning.
Internship period: 2 April to 24 May 2019
Application Process and Next Steps
The application and selection process has three stages:
1. Application
2. Interview
3. Selection Application
Please email the following documents to Geetanjali.Negi@oup.com latest by 12 November 2018
i. Your CV
ii. A covering letter explaining why you are interested in an internship at OUP and the functional area in which you are interested. Applications not indicating the functional area will not be considered.
Interview
There will be a single interview that will take place either in person or via Skype or video conferencing.
Selection
Only selected candidates will be notified through an email about the joining date and other details.
Application Timeline
Application opens 12 October 2018
Application closes 12 November 2018
Interview calls sent out December 2018
Interviews conducted and offer sent December 2018
Internship begins for Marketing, Sales, Production, and Demand Planning 2 April 2019
Internship begins for Commissioning, Editorial, and Design 6 May 2019
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