Assistant Editors, Blasts Jobs

Description

Position at Imagine Learning

Great Purpose. Great People. Great Opportunities.

At Imagine Learning we ignite learning breakthroughs. It drives everything we do. We innovate together to support educators in creating those special moments when students experience the joy of learning at its best.

We also ignite career breakthroughs, with the majority of our positions being fully remote opportunities that offer you what you’re really looking for: flexible work arrangements, interesting and meaningful job responsibilities, career growth, and a supportive team.

Imagine Your Impact.

Assistant Editors collaborate with other Editors and Curriculum Designers to produce short journalistic articles five days a week. Subject matter covers a wide variety of topics, including science, pop culture, history, politics, diversity issues, literature, and the media. The Assistant Editor position assists the other editors and academic designers in developing and maintaining the editorial calendar, assigning stories to freelance writers, corresponding with, and providing feedback to freelance writers, adapting written content to different reading comprehension levels, maintaining internal tracking sheets and databases, and publishing content. While much of our content comes from freelance writers and content partners, the assistant editor will at times have the opportunity to write original Blast articles, as well.

• Compensation: Base pay is anticipated to be between $51,466 and $60,000 per year. Eligible employees may also receive incentive/commission/annual bonus pay based on individual and/or company performance. Compensation may vary based on factors such as, but not limited to, individual skills, experience, training, education/certifications, geographic location, internal equity, and local market conditions.
• Position Type: This is a regular, full-time position.
• Location: In this US-based position your location will be remote.

Envision Your Experience.

In this role you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Helps brainstorm ideas for upcoming articles, focusing on topics that will resonate with a diverse student audience.
• Composes and edits 500-700-word articles tailored to a student audience.
• Assists in maintaining the team’s online editorial calendar.
• Other duties as required.
• Sends out article assignments to freelancers, tracks their progress, and edits their work to better refine it for use in middle and high school classrooms.
• Develops article assignments for freelancers that lay out article specifications and outlines 4-5 links to articles/resources that freelancers should consult.
• Completes additional writing, editing and administrative projects, as assigned.

Share Your Expertise.

Experience, education, and qualifications essential for success in this role, include:

• A nose for news and the ability to seek out stories that are relevant, appropriate, and engaging for an adolescent audience.
• Initiative to share ideas, identify great stories and propose concepts for future development.
• Experience and comfort working with digital education products and other digital tools, including Microsoft Office, Google Drive and Zoom.
• Ability to work remotely.
• Ability to collaborate, coordinate, and build consensus in a fast-paced, web-based, deadline-driven environment.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Journalism, English, Writing, Communication, Curriculum Design or Development, or another liberal arts field, and a minimum of 1-2 years of experience in pitching, writing, editing, and making editorial decisions in a journalistic setting; or an acceptable combination of education and experience.
• Ability to follow a strict writing format when needed, but also map out full projects independently, and execute them from start to finish.
• Familiarity with AP style and journalism ethics.
• Excellent writing and editing skills and the ability to produce quality work under pressure.

Ignite Your Career.

Imagine Learning is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We support your unique career journey by providing flexibility, investing in wellbeing, and propelling growth.

We offer a flexible workplace, with the majority of employees enjoying the opportunity to work from home within the US. Headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ, we also maintain offices in Austin, TX, Petaluma, CA, and Rock Rapids, IA.

Imagine Learning provides a comprehensive benefits program to eligible employees, including:

• 401k plan with a company match
• A wide variety of professional development programs, including tuition reimbursement
• Paid bonding leave when a new child joins your family
• Pre-tax savings plans
• Company-paid behavioral health coaching
• 15 days of accrued annual Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Fertility benefits
• Paid volunteer hours and annual giving events
• 15 paid holidays, including 2 floating holidays and a winter shutdown from Christmas Eve through New Year’s Day
• Multiple health, dental, and vision plans, including medical plans with zero employee premiums
• Life and short and long-term disability insurance

Imagine Learning is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse workforce, providing equal employment and advancement opportunities to qualified individuals. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected status. Imagine Learning will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals as required by law.