Senior Digital Content Editor

About Macmillan Education

Macmillan Education provides world class content in the most relevant, engaging and flexible formats to support students, teachers and institutions through a lifetime of learning. Macmillan Education produces content for English Language Teaching (ELT) and for Schools curricula around the world whilst Palgrave Higher Education develops and distributes textbooks, e-books and interactive e-learning resources primarily for university-level students.

Job Title: Senior Digital Content Editor, ELT

Location(s): Warsaw - Hybrid Working Model

About the Role

As Senior Digital Content Editor, you will work for our digital content team, delivering digital components for international ELT courses, with a focus on supporting the Content Development Manager in setting up courses in their early stages. You will already have strong experience in editing, curating, processing and publishing content and have an in-depth knowledge of digital learning content and instructional design.

This role is part of the digital content team, developing quality digital content for students and teachers learning English internationally and publishing a wide variety of digital components including digital student’s books, workbooks, presentation tools, practice apps and assessment. Working alongside the publishing content development team, the Senior Digital Content Editor will support the Content Development Manager in the early stages of courses before content development begins as well as fully engaging with the content and inputting into the look and feel of the digital components.

Role Responsibilities:

• Investment Approval Process and pre-course set up: support the Content Development Manager in evaluating scope, packager proposals and providing costs for new courses.
• Train DCEs in consistent application of metadata across courses and develop tagging brief templates.
• Take a lead role in training members of the Publishing Content Development team in the use of CAPE and other digital tools and support the implementation of any updates to digital content workflows with associated editorial documentation and guidance.
• Develop the content of the project to ensure that the products are suitable for the market requirements and quality standards are maintained.
• Provide necessary support for the Digital Content Editors in briefing, monitoring and liaising with third party suppliers and freelance contributors/editors to ensure work is appropriate and of a high quality.
• Ensure continuity and maintenance of house style across projects and their components. Work within the assigned team created for the development of a specific project, supporting the publishing team on all content and presentation decisions.
• Review content at relevant stages to ensure that content meets the brief and is quality assured, liaising with digital authors, and assessing and monitoring their work for quality, suitability and timely delivery.
• Take an active role in supporting the publishing team in the scoping of the project, creating project specification documentation and writing editorial guidelines to facilitate the translation of print to digital.
• Work within the allocated team to ensure all relevant detail is communicated so that the project can be fully and successfully realized.
• Work with in-house authoring and content production tools to develop prototypes and scopes and to brief and train suppliers.

Experience, Skills & Qualifications:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Knowledge of instructional design and appreciation of what makes a good digital activity
• Appreciation for a wide range of teaching and learning situations
• Knowledge of digital publishing processes and how they impact content development, and time and cost implications
• Attention to detail, quality control and an ability to engage with content at the highest level
• Experience of working with a range of new media and digital publishing projects
• Experience of market-focused ELT publishing and/or teaching experience (desirable)
• Experience of using digital publishing systems
• Experience of successful team working

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