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About the Role
The Director, Publications is a key project manager responsible for overseeing the writing and production processes and staffing for the creation of high-quality teacher and student core classroom resources in both print and digital environments. This role collaborates with internal teams and external developers to ensure timely and efficient creation of math publishing resources.
Responsibilities
- Support the Publisher to forecast budgets and establish schedules and best-practice processes for new projects.
- Create and manage project schedules based on established deliverables for print and digital core classroom resources, including prototypes and final products.
- Contribute to the ongoing improvement of project processes based on design-thinking principles and quality assurance standards.
- Liaise with internal team and CMS/LMS developers and programmers to define parameters for digitized resources and to identify and resolve content-related issues.
- Hire and manage contractors (content creators, editors, graphic designers, etc.).
- Participate in hiring and manage in-house production team, coordinating interaction between content creation and production teams and between internal and external stakeholders.
- Lead regular departmental meetings and special project meetings as needed.
- Coordinate content creation stages with writing team.
- Report to Publisher on project deliverables, including progress vs milestones, processes, performance of production staff, and freelance contractor costs.
- Create and maintain (with in-house production team) house styles for print and digital resources.
- Coordinate with other departments to provide support for website and non-core-classroom projects as needed.
Requirements
- A minimum of 5 years of digital and/or print publishing experience, including development (preferably with experience in the education sector, ideally in math).
- Undergraduate Publishing degree/diploma or editing training preferred and math-related helpful.
- Project management experience.
- Familiarity with Project Management software, Content Management Systems, e-learning software and Learning Management Systems.
- People management experience.
- Familiarity with production coordination.
- French is an asset.
Skills
- Big picture perspective with strong executional abilities
- Leadership/coaching/mentoring skills
- Strong editorial skills
- Excellent communication – written and oral
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Excellent organizational/multi-tasking ability
- Proficiency with Word, Excel, and Acrobat
- Knowledge and use of standard editing/proofreading mark-up
- Consistently meets deadlines
- Flexible/adaptable
- Keen eye for detail
- Diplomatic and patient
- Calm under pressure
- Team player
- Proactive problem-solver
- Strong memory
Location
- Toronto
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5 years of digital and/or print publishing experience
Education Level
- Undergraduate Publishing degree/diploma or editing training preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $75,200 to $86,000
Benefits
- Benefits
About the Company
- JUMP Math is a Canadian charity with global reach that empowers teachers and educators to multiply the potential in every classroom through research-informed, curriculum-aligned resources and approaches that ignite and nurture an enduring understanding and love of math in every student.
Equal Opportunity
- JUMP Math is committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from racialized persons/persons of colour, women, Indigenous/Aboriginal people of North America, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ persons, and others who may contribute to further diversification of ideas. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply. If you require accessibility accommodation, please indicate in your application. Application is only open to those legally eligible to work in Canada.