Senior Compliance Manager - 6847

Job Title: Senior Compliance Manager x2

Salary: £45,100-£60,400 per annum

Location: Cambridge / hybrid (40-60% mandatory office attendance)

Contract: Full time, Fixed Term/ Secondment, maternity cover until July 2027

The Compliance Team

The team covers a wide remit of important functions that help to meet Cambridge International's strategic vision to the be the world's most trusted teaching, learning and assessment community.

Our work aims to support our schools to achieve and maintain compliance with the Cambridge Handbook. This ensures rigor and consistency for students wherever they are in the world. It's about safeguarding the accessibility, fairness, security and integrity of Cambridge International assessments.

The team is divided into seven sub teams: Access Arrangements, Centre Monitoring, Exam Security, Inspections, Malpractice, Special Considerations, and Safeguarding & Coursework Adjustments. Each sub team is headed up by a Compliance Manager who manages a team of Compliance Officers in delivering a variety of processes in relation to each exam series.

About the role

We have two fixed term / secondment roles coming up with start dates around April / May 2026. One is heading up the Access Arrangements, Special Considerations and Safeguarding & Coursework Adjustments teams. The other heads up the Inspections and Centre Monitoring teams.

There are three broad aspects to either varied, challenging and interesting role. First, you'll be leading two to three Compliance sub-teams through the successes and challenges of three global exams series per year. Secondly, you will be striving to enrich and innovate how your teams achieve their deliverables. You will be routinely curious about our processes - how we do them and how we collect, analyse and report data. Thirdly, you'll play a key role in representing the Compliance team's interests in a variety of major cross divisional projects aimed at delivering significant innovations to meet our customers changing needs.

Our schools are all over the world, so you'll be switching between matters ranging from Argentina to Azerbaijan, from Germany to Japan, and almost everywhere in between. You should also expect the unexpected, global events you see on the news can rapidly shift your focus of work for the day!

No two days are the same, but you'll often be:

• Supporting the Compliance Managers to creatively solve day day challenges that can impact the successful delivery of our processes
• Working closely and calibrating approaches with two other Senior Compliance Managers, and the Head of Compliance to ensure appropriate coverage of live issues, projects and process delivery
• Being a point of escalation for complex issues from across the business, including your own teams
• Identifying, monitoring and proactively addressing risks to our processes
• Using your creativity, by developing plans to ensure our continued success in meeting the challenges of impressive growth
• Recruiting for success (it really is the most important thing we do as leaders!)
• Using and facilitating data to make informed decisions about workloads, capacity and delivery
• Representing the Compliance team in a variety of internal and external forums, occasionally including international travel for in person events.
• Fostering a culture of flexibility to deal with unexpected events that re shape the plan of work
• Improving, maintaining and reporting data to a variety of stakeholders
• Working within financial budgets when working with external contractors and/or assessment specialists

This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face to face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long term health condition.

A bit about you

The Compliance team's best asset is its people. To be successful in the role, you will be a confident and experienced manager. You'll be a collaborative and conscientious team player who is also able to prioritise keenly and execute tasks with determination. We need you to have excellent analytical and decision making abilities.

You will also:

• Be a motivational force that positively lifts those around them
• Show initiative and grasp empowerment as you 'learn the ropes'
• Be comfortable and experienced in assessing risk
• Be able to manage and direct a varying workload and to successfully meet multiple tight deadlines
• Be able to communicate information to a variety of stakeholders with diplomacy, precision and sensitivity
• Have a forward thinking mindset, able to anticipate future challenges and plan to navigate them
• Have a demonstrable track record of leading a team through success and challenges
• Be willing and able to travel internationally on occasion

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 annual salary
• Green travel schemes

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, and the advert will close 1 March 2026. Interviews will take place in person in Cambridge, or online 13th, 16th and 17th March 2026.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.

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Why grow your career with us?

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is 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.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is 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.

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.