Content Coordinator (Editorial Assistant)

at  Nelson Education LTD

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. That’s why 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.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• 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 who are 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.

Nelson Education is looking for a Content Coordinator to join our team. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Content Management, you will work within a team environment to provide editorial support to Publishers and Project Managers. You will assume increasing levels of responsibility for the development of selected core and supplementary projects.