What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Content Developer position at Benchmark Education Company LLC?
Position Purpose:
Work with Leadership in the Content Creation staff to manage the development of digital ancillary and supplemental products, from concept through publication. Responsible for contributing to instructional design, data-driven learning outcomes, and writing and editing new content.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Help envision and define implementation, developmental appropriateness and engagement of digital applications of ELA materials for both teachers and students
- Help ensure the successful development of all materials in digital formats
- Coordinate with content developers as well as authors, vendors and freelance writers in creating content to ensure that project goals and content guidelines are observed.
- Review, edit, and approve manuscript and production/QA stages, working directly with technology developers, copyeditors, graphic designers, and photo researchers. Be responsible for developmental editing of student and teacher materials from manuscript through digital production
- Develop and maintain writing and editing guidelines along with permissions and legal requirements
- Request and review vendor and writer samples and provide vendor feedback as necessary to ensure quality control
- Review and approve manuscript and production stages, working directly with authors/researchers, content developers, assistant content developers, copyeditors, graphic designers, and photo researchers
- Incorporate feedback (based on defined review stages) from Professional Development, Sales and Marketing, Editorial management, and outside reviewers and subject-matter experts/consultants
- Attend regularly scheduled status meetings to report on workflow and content issues
- Consult with all project team members
- Communicate with Sales & Marketing to support the development of sales support tools
- Work with the Correlations Manager to create and/or review state or competition correlations to ensure that they accurately address standards and topics assigned digital applications
- Aid in the QA of new digital products
- Read professional journals to increase market and pedagogical knowledge
- Attend department and weekly product status meetings
- Complete time tracking documentation on a weekly basis
Additional Responsibilities
- Help support and coordinate editorial and production schedules and needs in order to meet project goals and deadlines
- Help support development of digital content workflows, metadata tagging and instructional design
Job Requirements/Skills and Experience
- 7-10 years of experience in developing materials for an educational publisher or school district.
- University/College degree in Education or related field.
- Superior writing, editing and project management skills
- Up-to-date knowledge of language, literacy and content issues
- Intermediate-Advanced proficiency, MS Office and digital development tools such as Slack and Jira
- Basic proficiency, Adobe Creative Suite is preferred.
- Ability to manage several projects concurrently
- Flexible in adjusting to changing needs and schedules
- Able to work collaboratively with other departments (e.g., design and marketing)
- Teaching experience a plus
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
About Us
Benchmark Education Company is a leading publisher of core, supplemental, and intervention literacy and language resources in English and Spanish, both print and digital, as well as world-class professional development. Since its founding in 1998, our company has proven to be one of the most nimble and innovative content creators on the cutting edge of pedagogy and technology. The digital content in our many learning programs delivers all the rigor of its print counterpart and is designed for virtual and blended learning contexts.
Benchmark Education Publishing (BEC) and its affiliates are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
For further information, visit us at: https://www.benchmarkeducation.com
COVID-19 Policy - USA
All employees are required to have or obtain a COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment at Benchmark Education unless an exemption has been approved. All employees shall be required to report their vaccine status. All new employees shall be required to provide proof of their vaccination status prior to the start of their employment.
