Assistant Content Producer - Project Methodologies

Job Description

Planning: Collaborates with Content Strategy and Product Management teams to create program plan and P&L, with particular attention to product delivery strategy, resource and budget needs, and schedule requirements. - Content Plan: Clarifies deliverables for each program component. Communicates requirements for each program component to cross-functional team, and ensures final content achieves approved content plan. - Content Development: Manage development and production of all print, digital, and media components for the assigned program. - Resources: Identifies and secures resources where necessary for program. Guides and monitors work from all resources to achieve content, schedule, and budget requirements. - Vendor Management: Manages relationship with multiple vendors, actively monitoring for quality compliance and adherence to schedule, budget, and technical specifications. - Schedule: Establishes coordinated high-level schedule for all program components; monitors and controls schedule dependencies for program components. - Budget: Responsible for budget performance of the program, communicates budgets to all parties, maintains overview of budget performance against approved plansigned P&L. - Quality: Communicates quality control plan to program team, and monitors implementation of plan. - Reporting: Plans, organizes, and leads periodic meetings of the program team to evaluate status, problem-solve, and mitigate risks. - Problem solving: Collaborates with decision makers and stakeholders to resolve conflicts between plan and execution of various aspects of program plan. Skills : - Ability to take active ownership of projects, proactively assessing and mitigating risk. - Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills based on collecting and analyzing available, relevant, and reliable information, learning who to ask for opinions and input, and acting upon the analysis in a timely and effective manner. - Strong leadership skills, including developing and maintaining constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, seeks out contrary perspectives and is approachable. - Ability to respond confidently to conflicts and manage situations in a positive way, proactively escalating on-going issues. - Exceptional attention to detail and strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple complex programs with interrelated asset and timing dependencies. - Highly effective verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to facilitate communication and build consensus among external and internal team members. - Ability to balance thinking with action; able to redefine problems when working in ambiguity. - Flexible and adaptable in navigating roadblocks and creating innovative solutions. - Identifies areas of improvement, plans a strategy, and acts independently to create or promote improvement. - Takes initiative and leads change. - Exhibits curiosity and learning agility to discover and understand market and customer requirements. - Ability to collaborate with key stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams. - Should be able to work well in a geographically dispersed team environment. - Behaves ethically and with integrity. Qualifications : - Masters degree required. - Minimum of 4-6 years publishing experience required. - Minimum 3 years of experience in project management. - Minimum of 2 years of experience in managing digital content and workflows for educational courseware. - Project Management certification, PMP (PMI), or equivalent is a plus. - Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Smartsheet, JIRAConfluence, Microsoft Project, or other project management tools. - Exposure to Agile methodology. - Basic knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, CSS is a plus. - A keen interest in education and ed-tech sector and how it is intersecting with all aspects of our lives. Role: Technical Content Developer Industry Type: IT Services & Consulting Department: Content, Editorial & Journalism Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent Role Category: Content Management (Print / Online / Electronic)

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