Western Schools is looking for a Content Project Editor in Massachusetts, United States. If you meet the requirements below, you will be eligible to apply via Digital Marketing Community.

Job Responsibilities:

• Independently lead content development, editing, and production of nursing continuing education course materials and collaboration with stakeholders to meet workflow, schedule, and quality requirements.
• Design detailed development schedules.
• Evaluate the project needs and procures and schedules appropriate external resources for copyediting, proofreading, and permissions.
• Support project schedules, course tracking, and reporting.
• Associates in contracting authors and recruiting peer reviewers.
• Create and maintains excellent communications with authors, nurse planners, peer reviewers, and production vendors, as well as Western Schools’ editorial and marketing staff.
• Operate under the direction of the managing development editor to develop and edit courses according to Western Schools’ guidelines.
• Determine, assesses and manages potential risks to projects and interdependencies, recommends possible solutions, and implements resolution.
• Perform effectively with authors and planners to achieve course development goals, implement appropriate workflows, and regularly communicates schedule and quality updates.
• Accountable for building and maintaining strong and collaborative relationships with authors, planners, and peer reviewers.
• Track detailed development processes, working in close collaboration with nurse planners, to ensure quality, accuracy and timeliness of course content.
• Oversee project development and reconciles requested changes in collaboration with the nurse planner.
• Supervise detailed project file maintenance, contractual documents, schedules, and tracking spreadsheet; reviews submissions from authors, peer reviewers and planners.
• Aid in the on-going negotiation of project scope changes, including assessment of the impact to budget and schedule.
• Organize turnover to production and proofing of all projects.
• Coordinate information and coordinates end-of-project activities.
• Assure that all information is kept current in shared databases.
• Secure that processes are implemented and standards are met.
• Excute process efficiencies for quality assurance.
• Produce regular feedback on an author, peer reviewer, and vendor performance to management.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree is required.
• Minimum 3  years of project management experience.
• Effective experience in print production, including scheduling, developmental editing, proofreading, and permissions preferred.
• Proficient experience with formal project management software and/or techniques.
• Deep working knowledge of contracts, forms and agreements.
• Expert knowledge of managing change and dealing with ambiguity.
• Familiarity with working effectively in a team environment and directing outside vendors and freelancers.
• Outstanding knowledge of Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, and Access.
• Proven skills to work with basics of Adobe Acrobat.
• Demonstrated experience working in the publishing industry, continuing education or related field strongly preferred.
• Solid organized and persistent.
• Sound writing skills, with unrelenting attention to detail, including grammar, style and punctuation.
• Great problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Strong time and project management skills.
• Able to clearly communicate in a variety of styles and settings with the ability to interpret and translate information to teams and individuals and to report effectively to management.
• Ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, provide feedback in a constructive manner and relate product requirements succinctly and effectively.
• Ability to anticipate, adapt and implement new processes, procedures, and standards.
• Able to successfully manage, organize, prioritize, and handle multiple projects and tasks including complex interdependencies between projects.
• Ability to work efficiently and switch directions as needed.

About Western Schools :

Western Schools is a nationally accredited and approved, widely recognized leader in continuing education for healthcare professionals, offering expert-authored and peer-reviewed courses.