Job Description

Information Blurb

The Content Editor ensures the currency and completeness of an assigned set of electronic or other formatted content.

About You - experience, education, skills, and accomplishments

• Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to work well both independently and in a team environment.
• Ability to maintain and develop good business relationships.
• Ability to interact effectively with outside contacts by telephone, in person and all forms of written communication.
• Ability to detail and synthesize information rapidly; ability to manage and meet multiple and frequent deadlines.
• Ability to maintain focus while performing repetitive tasks.
• Excellent technical skills, with ability to deftly enter and manipulate data, and learn software and database programs; strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office products.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Excellent grammar, punctuation and writing skills, and an ability to express ideas clearly and logically.
• Capacity to learn and master new technology and knowledge of new research environments.

It would be great if you also had

• Graduate coursework or equivalent experience in Publishing, Business, Library/Information Science, or Customer Service.
• At least one year of experience working with periodicals, periodical acquisitions or a related area.
• At least one year of working experience with databases (i.e., Microsoft Access or other relational database application).

• Experience with creation, coordination, and maintenance of taxonomies.
• Experience in library, classroom or education-related market.
• Understanding of delivery methods for electronic content (FTP, Web, RSS, Email) and various media storage methods and devices.
• Understanding of data formats for electronic content (TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PDF, HTML, SGML, XML, ASCII, MARC).
• Knowledge of searching protocol in a library or research environment.
• Reading/writing knowledge of a foreign language.

What would you be doing in this role

• Identifies source materials for product coverage based on criteria and allocated budget.
• Researches, reviews and monitors a variety of sources including print, electronic, websites and individual contacts.
• Enters data in content management system that may include text formatting, image placement, captioning, metadata, subject terms, topic indexing, abstracting, web linking, and other editorial enrichment.
• Understands and utilizes customer data and market trends in determining value-add needed to maintain customer base and attain market-based objectives.
• Performs document control, end of production cycle completeness and accuracy tasks as assigned.
• Performs administrative tasks as needed to organize and track records.
• Actively participates in departmental meetings and discussions.