Dictionaries Internship 2026/2027 (Goodwood) at Oxford University Press Southern Africa

• This internship is designed to provide practical work experience to students who are in their final year of study (2025), or to recent graduates who have completed their qualifications and are seeking workplace exposure.The successful candidate will be offered a 12-month internship contract, starting on the 02 February 2026 and ending 31 January 2027.

This post is based in Goodwood, Cape Town.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Publishing end-to-end processes for dictionaries
• Editing and proofreading principles
• Book design and production
• Project management and scheduling
• Budget management
• Commissioning freelancers, contracts, rates
• Artwork sourcing (photographs and illustrations) if applicable
• The use of specialised technical systems, such as dictionary workbench software and corpus software to produce dictionaries and related datasets

Requirements
Qualifications and Experience:

• Humanities BA degree/diploma
• South African citizen
• Access to reliable transport
• Computer literate in Microsoft Product suite

 Attributes:

• Ability and willingness to learn: Have an open mindset and attitude to learn
• Collaboration: Working with internal and external teams
• Initiative: Foster new ideas and solutions to projects and processes
• Resilience: Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• Analytical thinking: Being able to analyze data