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.
About the Role
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.
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.
- 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.
- Hybrid working model
- Flexible working time
- Competitive compensation
- Great company culture
- Flexible health & dental benefits
- Great benefits and perks, including summer Fridays, partner discounts and more!
Don't have 100% of the above qualifications? Do you still think Nelson is a great fit for you? We encourage you to apply anyway!
Nelson is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity. As part of this commitment, we do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, sex, gender, gender identity, colour, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or disability status.
Should you require any accommodation during the recruitment process, please reach out to peopleandengagement@nelson.com.
