Office Manager

About This Role

• Salary: Competitive
• Location: Dubai
• Country: Dubai
• Business Unit: International Education
• Vacancy Type: Fixed Term
• Closing Date: 22 May 2026 Meet the recruiter

Ian Brooks

ian.brooks@cambridge.org

Salary: Competitive

Location: Dubai, UAE

Contract: Full time, 2-year fixed term

Are you at your best when everything around you runs smoothly?

We're looking for someone who enjoys organising, supporting, and keeping things on track. As our Office Manager, you'll be at the heart of our Dubai office, helping colleagues focus on the work that really matters.

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

You will be part of a team whose role is to develop business for Cambridge International in MENA.

The role includes:

• Office Administration: ensuring the smooth day-to-day running of the office
• Finance Coordination: liaising with Head Office Finance, managing procurement processes, invoices, purchase orders, and timely expense submissions
• Process Improvement & Collaboration: proactively supporting the enhancement of policies, processes, and systems
• Functional Support: assisting with marketing and training activities
• Compliance: ensuring all local legal entity governance requirements are completed, documented, and maintained

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.

About You

• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal; other local languages are desirable.
• Strong organisational and time-management skills, ability to manage numerous projects simultaneously.
• Attention to detail and organised, and calm under pressure.
• Ability to build and maintain excellent personal and business relationships.
• Previous experience in Office management, finance and Compliance.
• You have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work with senior managers. You know how to work in and with a team, and you have good negotiation skills
• Autonomous: you know how to report in a synthetic and efficient way, you are enthusiastic and creative, tenacious to push projects and flexible in the face of emerging and changing requirements. You are at ease in a constantly changing environment.
• A university qualification is desirable but not essential

For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be 22****nd May. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place on 1-2 June.

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.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter.

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.

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.

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.