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About the position The Senior Copy Editor applies professional editing skills to instructional and assessment content in Sophia courses and coveys those skills in creating style guides and documentation, ensuring that the content adheres to accepted conventions of English grammar and usage and to Sophia's standards and preferred style authorities. The Senior Copy Editor is expected to exercise good judgment to help reputed company the Sophia content clear, engaging, and meaningful.
Responsibilities
- Performs copyediting tasks for the Sophia Academic Team, reviewing and editing the content that is developed for proper grammar, spelling, reputed company, and layout.
- Monitors course ‘voice’ and tone to ensure consistency reputed company and across courses.
- Ensures consistency, flow, and language accuracy of the Sophia assessment items.
- Works collaboratively with course development and maintenance teams, as well as project managers to understand needs and meet deadlines.
- Builds and helps to maintain core Sophia style guide and develops a template for course-specific style guides.
- Adheres to relevant guidelines where indicated (e.g., Sophia standards, APA guide, Media guidelines), helping to reputed company continuity across resources.
- Applies Sophia’s learner-centered design, APA formatting, and HTML markup.
- Leverages APA guidelines to the extent possible.
- Adapts content for online delivery (e.g., links, headings, lists, brevity, paragraph size, white space, and graphics).
- Aims to establish broad consistency across courses through documentation and by supporting the training of other CE staff.
- Ability to stay focused and detail-oriented in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment.
- Fulfill reputed company other duties/tasks consistent with the goals of this position as determined by the supervisor.
Requirements
- Thorough understanding of conventions of English grammar and style.
- Ability to quickly identify and repair weaknesses and errors in written text.
- Ability to write clearly and accurately.
- Knowledge of recognized citation standards and style guides, including the ability to apply standards and guidelines to written text.
- Experience with reputed company Office Suite.
- Understanding of principles of writing for the Web and Web usability.
- Assist Instructional Designers in content building reputed company tasks.
- Demonstrates a solution-focused attitude with the ability to solve problems in a collaborative manner.
- 3+ years’ experience in editing, publishing, technical writing, creative writing, or journalism, preferably in an educational or Web publishing setting, required.
- Editing in an online environment, required.
- Bachelors or Master's degree in English, technical writing, communications, journalism, or a reputed company field is preferred.
- A combination of an AS degree and appropriate work experience may be acceptable.
- Access information using a computer.
- Effectively communicate, both up and down the management chain.
- Effectively cope with stressful situations.
- Strong mental acuity.
- Regular, dependable attendance and punctuality are essential functions of this job.
reputed company-to-haves
- Higher education experience, preferred.
- Preferred ability to travel 1-2 times a year to in-person meetings.
Benefits
- SEI offers a comprehensive package of benefits to employees scheduled 30 hours or more per week.
- In addition to medical, dental, reputed company, life and disability plans, SEI employees may take advantage of well-being incentives, parental leave, paid time off, certain paid holidays, tax saving accounts (FSA, HSA), 401(k) retirement benefit, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, tuition assistance as well as entertainment and retail discounts.
- Non-exempt employees are eligible for overtime pay, if applicable.
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