Rights & Permissions Specialist (Press General Administration)

Baltimore, MD, United States💼 Full-time💰 $47,355–$47,355🗓 2026-08-18 → 2026-09-23

Core

Manage permissions budgets, negotiate fees with global publishers, and develop revenue streams for licensing book and journal content.

Role type

Rights & Permissions Specialist

Builds

Licensing agreements for subsidiary rights, digital licenses, and audiobook rights

Domain

Academic publishing

Deliverable

client delivery

Required skills

contract negotiation, rights assessment, budget management, relationship management, fee structure development, contract drafting, license tracking, international travel coordination

Preferred skills

none stated

Technologies

Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel

Responsibilities

Manage permissions budget, coordinate permissions requests, negotiate fees with global publishers, collaborate with Copyright Clearance Center, identify new revenue streams, assist in pitching titles, draft subsidiary rights contracts, coordinate logistics for foreign book fairs

Seniority

Mid-level, hands-on specialist

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About jhu

The Johns Hopkins University was America’s first research university, founded for the express purpose of expanding knowledge and putting that knowledge to work for the good of humanity. Today, Johns Hopkins has approximately 6,500 faculty, 6,200 undergraduate students, and 17,600 graduate students across 230 degree programs at the baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral levels. JHU has multiple campuses in Baltimore and campuses serving graduate students in DC, Italy, and China. Johns Hopkins stands alone among top research universities in its extraordinary commitment of attention and resources