Senior Editor, English Language Arts

Job Description

 

Senior Editor, English Language Arts

 

Company:

KGL

Department:

Books

Reports To:

Editorial Director, Humanities

Date Approved:

9/4/2025

 

Job Summary:

The Senior Editor, English Language Arts leads content development of ELA projects throughout their development and reports to the Editorial Director, ELA/Humanities on the status and productivity of assigned projects. The Senior Editor, English Language Arts collaborates with KGL design, production, and project management teams, as well as client teams.

 

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Editorial Director to build and manage external editorial teams for assigned projects to ensure quality development and guarantee clients’ publishing goals are met
• Collaborate with project managers to resolve editorial issues that affect workflow or schedule
• Establish and complete QC processes to ensure completed work meets client expectations
• Maintain content prototypes and templates that meet client specifications
• Create and maintain editorial guidelines, prototypes, and editorial templates to ensure product consistency, including ongoing updates throughout the life of the project and
• Ensure content compliance to standards as well as content accuracy
• Participate in status meetings with clients, including progress reporting for scope of work
• Monitor assigned editorial projects to proactively identify any risks and take action to ensure adherence to quality, schedule, and budget goals

 

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree minimum
• Minimum 5 years’ experience of editorial development experience in K-12 ELA in a deadline-driven environment; cross-curricular experience a real plus
• Expertise with state-specific and broader-market educational standards, including Common Core and other relevant frameworks and standards in the assigned discipline areas
• Thorough understanding of pedagogy and learning/instruction dynamics, including contemporary trends in education such as Science of Reading-based literacy
• Able to interact successfully with client contacts, especially on sensitive matters
• Able to develop or interpret workflow and specification instructions effectively and efficiently
• Strong leadership, organization, and communication skills
• Able to lead, motivate, and work in an energetic, deadline-driven, and highly creative environment

 

Desired Skills and Abilities:

• Candidates offering an advanced degree a major plus

 

Physical Requirements

• Ability to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
• Ability to remain stationary, typing and managing detailed work for long periods required.
• Exceptional visual acuity with or without corrective lenses.
• Ability to operate a computer.
• Ability to handle very detailed work for extended periods of time.

 

 

KGL a CJK Group, is an Equal Opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.