Copy Editor, Specialist – LTE

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Implement grammar, spelling, usage, punctuation, syntax, and style in accordance with departmental, client, and industry standards.

• Ensure consistency and uniformity across assessment components while identifying errors throughout the workday.

• Apply client style guidelines, address deviations when necessary, and create or modify guidelines as required.

• Comprehend and manage the copyeditor’s scope of responsibilities, escalating concerns when appropriate.

• Seek out learning opportunities to enhance editorial expertise and incorporate emerging best practices.

• Adhere to quality assurance, quality control, and review guidelines while recognizing editorial, validity, reputational, and program risks.

• Utilize Pearson-preferred applications and publishing platforms, and recommend workflow improvements.

• Identify or create digital job aids, documentation, and training for colleagues.

• Support staff training, mentoring, seminars, and provide one-on-one assistance.

• Collaborate with Editorial, Asset Services, Content, CDS, Pearson, and other departments.

• Contribute to checklists, process documents, fact-checking, item writing, scoring checks, and cross-functional initiatives.

• Serve as lead editor when designated, coordinating editorial responsibilities and influencing program decisions.

• Develop training and process documents, work logs, and review or approve schedules.

• Oversee editors’ activities, monitor schedules, track assets, and communicate status, scope changes, risks, issues, defects, deadlines, resources, and overtime requirements to management.

• Make final editorial decisions as the lead editor and escalate issues promptly.

• Utilize AI tools to develop, review, and enhance assessment content with the necessary editorial oversight.

• Attend meetings, perform administrative tasks, support efficiency initiatives, identify and escalate issues, and advocate for improved technology, tools, and processes.

• Maintain effective business communications, adhere to time-off protocols, arrange backup coverage, and collaborate efficiently.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field (e.g., literature, language, journalism) or equivalent certification/on-the-job training.

• Minimum of three years of editorial experience.

• At least two years of experience in educational assessment.

• Strong proficiency in end-to-end copyediting, including spelling, grammar, terminology, punctuation, syntax, diction, and usage.

• Proficient in interpreting and applying major style and usage references, such as the Chicago Manual of Style, Gregg Reference Manual, and Garner’s Modern English Usage.

• Proficient with Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Office 365 applications: Word, Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, and Excel.

• Basic knowledge of HTML/XML for web publishing.

• Ability to adapt to changing software and requirements.

• Understanding of copyright law in assessment contexts and when to escalate concerns.

• Familiarity with educational assessment principles, including content standards, alignment, validity, and item-level statistics.

• Understanding of assessment design interactions, such as passage–item relationships, item types, metadata, and accommodations.

• Knowledge of assessment best practices, including universal design, plain English, and accessibility design.

• Experience or proficiency with Pearson-preferred applications and platforms, including ABBI, eStyle, Oracle, and related publishing workflows.

• Capability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, manage deadlines, maintain confidentiality, and collaborate across departments.

• Proficiency in AI-supported content development, including prompting, refining, and evaluating AI outputs.

🏝️ Benefits

• Benefits information is accessible through a linked resource; specific benefits are not detailed in the listing.