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Advanced/Senior Editor (12-18 month contract)
Pearson
Oxford, , United Kingdom
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Description
About the team
The maths team is a dedicated, fun, supportive and knowledgeable group of people who work creatively to produce maths resources for Primary-age children and their teachers. It’s a matrix team with people from many job functions working together to create resources which really work in classrooms. In your team you’ll work with designers, other editors, a project manager and several publishers. You report into a member of the publishing team who is also working on the project and is very knowledgeable and supportive. The role is based in Oxford or London and although many of the team are in Oxford, we have daily stand ups with London team members and some of the team work partly or wholly out of our London offices.
About the role
We are looking for an energetic and proactive person with well-developed editorial skills and a passion for education to join our primary maths team . You will be part of a friendly and high-performing team, managing your own components of a set of primary maths resources. You’ll be working closely with colleagues in design, project management and publishing to create and deliver a resource which meets young learners’ needs and teachers’ requirements.
A day in the life of
During a normal day you might engage in some of the below activities:
• Testing sample materials with teachers and learners and making suggestions for improvements
• Developing your understanding of how to create the most user-friendly resources for teachers and for children of different ages, background and reading levels
• Attending/Leading author workshops to generate new and exciting content which meets needs of learners and teachers
• Working closely with authors on manuscripts to ensure these are high quality and meet brand and style guidelines
• Developing and improving author writing templates
• Creating, challenging and improving team workflows and author writing processes and templates
• Working with project managers and supplier managers to identify and manage the best freelance partners to work on our products
• Working hands-on to develop briefs for freelancers to ensure they manage, edit and proofread materials to meet needs of learners and teachers and ensure consistency across different manuscripts.
• Quality checking freelance work
• Writing and briefing artwork and working with our rights and permissions team to clear permissions where needed
• Continually updating your knowledge of the Primary school landscape to ensure you are developing the best products and services for our customers
• There may be opportunity to commission new titles within a series with support from Publishing lead and to author materials to support the series
• You will also
◦ manage a budget and schedule for your areas of responsibility
◦ contribute to daily team meetings, as well as tracking against budget and schedule and using problem solving skills to ensure dates are met and budget is kept to.
◦ working with our digital team and editorial freelancers and suppliers to ensure resources are made available on our digital platforms and are checked thoroughly
◦ Where needed answer customer queries and write customer facing communications about brand
◦ and create and maintain relationships with schools and share findings from research widely within the team
Qualifications
Who are we looking for?
• Someone who loves education and is passionate about supporting children in developing a love of maths and learning
• Someone who would enjoy working with a close team to develop exciting new resources but equally willing to take responsibility and lead on their area of responsibility
• Proven organisational /project management skills
• Editorial experience and skills are critical
• Education/Primary teaching experience desired
• Maths education experience desired
• We will recruit this role at either a senior or mid-level depending on the experience and skills of the candidate. We are looking for someone who is able to learn quickly and on the job as it is a short-term contract.
You don’t need to have any prior experience in the Primary Schools, although we do like to hire people who have a genuine interest in this sector.
We do require you to have experience of managing and briefing freelancers to edit content and of successfully managing editorial projects, have excellent organisational skills and the ability to work independently and proactively within a team. Last but not least you need to have a positive and determined attitude to work.
So if you have a passion for producing resources which really help Primary-aged children and proven editorial and editorial management skills, we would love to meet you to discuss the role further.