Benchmark Education Company (BEC) needs to project manage the development phase of new product development, both Core and Supplemental, for literacy and language resources in English and Spanish.
Requirements
- Superior Spanish writing & editing skills.
- Current knowledge of language, literacy and content issues, research and standards
- Intermediate-Advanced proficiency, MS Office
- Basic proficiency, Adobe Creative Suite is preferred
Responsibilities
- Review, edit, and approve manuscript and production stages, working directly with copy editors, graphic designers, and photo researchers
- Develop and maintain writing and editing guidelines
- Request and review vendor and writer samples and provide vendor feedback as necessary to ensure quality control
- Create or update Product Library documentation
- Communicate with Sales and Marketing to support the development of sales support tools
- Work with the Correlations Manager, as needed, to create and/or review state or competition correlations to ensure that they accurately address standards and topics.
- Support Sales and Marketing by reviewing pullouts, space ads, pre-pub flyers, and other sales support tools for accuracy and completeness
Other
- Must be fluent in Spanish, both written and verbal.
- Coordinate with vendors, colleagues, and freelance writers developing content, ensuring that content guidelines are observed
- Incorporate feedback (based on defined review stages) from Professional Development, Sales and Marketing, Editorial management, and outside reviewers and consultants
- Attend regularly scheduled status meetings with Executive Content Developer or Senior Content Developer to report on workflow and content issues
- Attend department and weekly product status meetings
