Editorial Project Manager

About the Role

As an Editorial Project Manager on the EBSCOlearning team, you will help keep learning and test prep content accurate, current, and on schedule across multiple product lines. This U.S.-based, remote position involves coordinating content projects from planning through publication, working with writers, editors, subject matter experts, and partnering with content and product teams.

Key Responsibilities

Editorial

• Copyedit content documents, focusing on practice test manuscripts.
• Conduct final copyedit and production preparation of near-complete manuscripts.
• Review subject matter expert sample questions and early-stage manuscripts using tracked changes and comments.
• Perform initial copyedit of Business Book Summaries submissions.
• Apply style guides and contract writing guidelines consistently.
• Check manuscript tagging, formatting, and content against test specs and test maps.
• Assist with resource quality assurance, including checking content on the platform against manuscripts and videos against fact sheets.

Content Development and Project Support

• Assist in the content development process, supporting project managers in areas such as microlessons, practice tests, and videos.
• Research exam specifications and build test specs and subject matter expert retagging documents from exam frameworks.
• Assist with contract creation, including drafting peer review checklists/statements of work.
• Assist with subject matter expert recruitment and onboarding, including researching candidates, building lists, and drafting outreach templates.
• Work on corporate learning content assets, including creating audio versions of Business Book Summaries and Reviews, creating and producing Learning Paths, curating and formatting business magazine articles, and maintaining associated content trackers.
• Coordinate the delivery of Corporate Learning content to the EBSCOlearning platform, serving as the liaison between content and platform teams to ensure timely and accurate publication, including mapping and delivering newly available Harvard Business Review content.
• Conduct weekly quality assurance of new and updated content on the EBSCOlearning platform, including reviewing resources, documenting issues, making corrections in the Content Management System (CMS), following through on fixes, and approving content for release.
• Conduct competitive analyses by exploring competitor platforms and documenting observations.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills with close attention to detail.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple deadlines.
• Familiarity with MS tools: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.
• Organized, able to juggle multiple projects.
• Clear written communication, including flagging uncertainty by commenting rather than guessing.
• Comfort learning new tools, including tools like Claude, ChatGPT, Synthesia, or InDesign.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in English, communications, education, journalism, publishing, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Strong editorial background.
• Familiarity with The Chicago Manual of Style (18th edition).
• Strong research skills, including synthesizing findings clearly.
• Strong attention to detail.