About the Role
Nelson Education is looking for a Content Coordinator to join their team. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Content Management, you will provide editorial support to Publishers and Project Managers and assume increasing responsibility for the development of selected core and supplementary projects.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate the market-driven review of proposals and draft manuscripts for ground-up and revised educational materials.
- Provide editorial assistance to Project Managers, Publishers, and other team members, both in-house and freelance.
- Help prepare manuscripts for production by tagging, incorporating reviewer feedback and editorial changes, completing metadata sheets, preparing asset logs and art manuscripts, and PDF mark-up as required.
- Foster effective and efficient communication with internal and external colleagues and customers.
Requirements
- Post-secondary degree
- Certificate/degree from college or university publishing program an asset
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Detail-oriented, organized, and motivated individual with good problem-solving skills and strong customer service focus
- Superior time management skills, flexibility to shift between tasks easily, and demonstrated ability to effectively prioritize workload.
- Ability to work both independently and within a team environment.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, and Adobe Acrobat; Experience with SmartSheet and JIRA an asset; Ability to quickly learn new technology.
- Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability to change and thrives on learning new technology and skills, including a willingness to accept feedback to improve and hone editorial skills.
- Effective interpersonal skills to foster and maintain good working relationships among internal and external customers.
- Experience in K-12 or the education industry is considered an asset.
Skills
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Adobe Acrobat
- SmartSheet
- JIRA
Location
- Sheppard & Don Mills
Work Type
- On-site
- Hybrid
- Contract
- Full-time
Education Level
- Post-secondary degree
- Certificate/degree from college or university publishing program
Salary/Compensations
- $45,000 per annum
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Free parking on-site
- Free, convenient shuttle bus service from Don Mills Subway Station
- Access to on-site fitness center and fitness classes
- Access to LinkedIn Learning
- Mentorship and professional development opportunities
- Comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
About the Company
- As the largest Canadian-owned and operated K-12 publisher, Nelson Education Ltd. is Canada's only heritage education content provider, known for its innovative products and solutions catering to learners across the country.
- Nelson is on a mission to make learning accessible, engaging, and effective for all.
- Nelson continuously strives to create dynamic curriculum-aligned content that caters to diverse learning styles, fostering critical thinking, creativity, and life-long learning.
- In response to the evolving education landscape, Nelson developed Edwin, a digital learning ecosystem. Edwin is a learning platform for classroom success, providing curriculum-linked content, engaging tools and unparalleled support to reach every student.
- Nelson is redefining education and making a positive impact on the way knowledge is acquired and shared by creating the possible, one learner at a time.
Equal Opportunity
- Nelson teaches the world by learning from everyone in it.
- We are committed to fostering an equitable, diverse, and inclusive workplace environment.
- We believe in the power of education and our ability to impact social change.
- Truth, honesty, integrity, and respect guide our decisions and actions in the development of learning solutions that empower success for all educators and learners.
- We value a respectful, inclusive, and safe workplace that nurtures belonging and represents many different cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, and opinions.
- Everyone is free to be who they are.
- We foster and continue to build relationships that are equitable, diverse, and inclusive with existing and future partners in education.
- We commit to holding ourselves accountable by creating measurable short and long-term goals that place equity, diversity, and inclusion at the core of what we do in our resources, the workplace, the educational community, and in the larger society.
- We strive to build an inclusive world for everyone.
- We are stronger together.
- Nelson is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to Inclusion, Equity and Diversity.
- As part of this commitment, we do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, sex, gender, gender identity, colour, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or disability status.
- Should you require any accommodation during our recruitment and selection process, please reach out to peopleandengagement@nelson.com.
