Cengage Learning delivers highly customized learning solutions for colleges, universities, instructors, students, libraries, government agencies, corporations, and professionals around the world. These solutions are delivered through specialized content, applications, and services that foster academic excellence and professional development, as well as provide measurable learning outcomes to its customers.
Aplia, a Cengage Learning product, is revolutionizing how students learn. We create online, interactive learning solutions that increase student effort and engagement in their high school and college courses. We have helped 1,000,000 students at more than 1,300 institutions since product inception in 2002 and are looking for eager and like-minded individuals to join our brainy, creative, and lively group!
The Project Editor will manage editorial projects by working with our content development team to develop and maintain interactive, online content for undergraduate courses. This is an on-site position located in our Belmont, CA office.
Specific Responsibilities:
Works directly with authors, reviewers, and production staff to ensure the assigned projects are delivered on schedule and reflects our editorial standards
Outsources and manages work from vendors and freelancers (includes trafficking the product from outline and initial manuscript through publication, and ensuring quality at every stage)
Copyediting problem sets and other online content for clarity, consistency, and adherence to our style guide; proofreading material online; checking changes; and conducting comparison reads
Requirements:
Bachelors degree in English, Journalism, Communication or related
At least 2 years experience in editorial capacity
Must have experience managing editorial projects
Excellent knowledge of grammar and command of the English language (familiarity with CMS a huge plus)
Proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel, and be very comfortable with new media and technology in general
Attentive to detail with excellent organizational skills
Must be flexible and able to adapt to a fast-paced, rapidly changing work environment
To be considered, please include a cover letter along with your resume.
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