Senior Project Editor

Your HR Team Ltd; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working environment

Onsite parking

Professional growth opportunities

Job summary

Little Learners Love Literacy is seeking an experienced Project Editor to guide resources from manuscript to publication. You will manage schedules, budgets, and a team of freelancers to deliver high-quality literacy materials aligned with our program.

Reporting to the Editorial Manager, you’ll ensure consistency, quality, and timely launches across print and digital formats, with hybrid working options and ongoing professional development.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years editing experience in educational publishing.
• 5+ years for Senior Project Editor.
• A relevant degree and an editing qualification.
• Excellent written English and a sharp eye for detail.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to juggle several projects and shifting priorities.
• Clear, confident communication and the ability to build good working relationships with authors, freelancers and colleagues.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat.
• Experience editing primary literacy resources, particularly systematic synthetic phonics.
• Knowledge of the Australian education system and international education systems.
• Experience using Monday.com for project management.

Responsibilities

• Manage projects from manuscript to launch, keeping to agreed schedules and budgets.
• Brief and manage freelance editors, proof readers, illustrators and designers.
• Carry out structural and copyediting on print and digital resources and marketing materials, and write some marketing copy.
• Prepare manuscripts for design, including styling in Word, writing artwork, design and cover briefs, and collating reference materials.
• Check page proofs and collate corrections from internal and external stakeholders; check printer’s proofs and production copies.
• Work with authors and consultants to refine manuscripts and products
• Work closely with our Digital Product Manager to brief and check digital products across various platforms
• Look after permissions, ISBNs and product data, and archiving for your projects.
• Manage the reprints process
• Report on project progress at our weekly work-in-progress meetings.
• At Senior Project Editor level, you will work with greater independence, taking full ownership of your projects through to launch, coordinating external stakeholders and briefing freelancers directly.

Skills

Project management

Copyediting

Structural editing

Editorial coordination

Microsoft Word

Adobe Acrobat

Monday.com

Communication

Attention to detail

XML

Education

Relevant degree

Editing qualification

Tools

Microsoft Word

Adobe Acrobat

Monday.com

XML

Job description

Surrey Hills, VIC | Full-time | Level based on experience

Do you love making resources that help children learn to read? Little Learners Love Literacy® is looking for an experienced educational editor to take our student and teacher resources from manuscript to publication. We will appoint at Project Editor or Senior Project Editor level, depending on your experience.

About us

Little Learners Love Literacy® is a small, growing education publisher based in Surrey Hills, Victoria. Our mission is to give teachers and parents the tools they need to teach children to read, write and spell with confidence. Our program supports structured, explicit phonics teaching, and every resource we publish is aligned to our teaching sequence. We have a supportive, inclusive team culture where you will have the freedom to be creative and make a real difference.

About the role

Reporting to the Editorial Manager, you will manage your own projects through the full editorial process, from manuscript to print and digital launch. As well as keeping projects on time, on budget and to a high standard, you will help make sure every resource stays true to the Little Learners Love Literacy® program.

What you will do

Manage your projects from manuscript to launch, keeping to agreed schedules and budgets and flagging risks early.

Brief and manage freelance editors, proof readers, illustrators and designers.

Carry out structural and copyediting on print and digital resources and marketing materials, and write some marketing copy.

Prepare manuscripts for design, including styling in Word, writing artwork, design and cover briefs, and collating reference materials.

Check page proofs and collate corrections from internal and external stakeholders; check printer’s proofs and production copies.

Work with authors and consultants to refine manuscripts and products

Work closely with our Digital Product Manager to brief and check digital products across various platforms

Look after permissions, ISBNs and product data, and archiving for your projects.

Manage the reprints process

Report on project progress at our weekly work-in-progress meetings.

At Senior Project Editor level, you will work with greater independence, taking full ownership of your projects through to launch, coordinating external stakeholders and briefing freelancers directly.

About you

At least 2 years’ editing experience in educational publishing (5+ years for Senior Project Editor).

Experience taking projects in-house from manuscript delivery through to completion.

A relevant degree and an editing qualification.

Excellent written English and a sharp eye for detail.

Strong organisational skills and the ability to juggle several projects and shifting priorities.

Clear, confident communication and the ability to build good working relationships with authors, freelancers and colleagues.

Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat

Experience editing primary literacy resources, particularly systematic synthetic phonics.

Knowledge of the Australian education system and international education systems.

Experience using Monday.com for project management

An understanding of digital workflows; XML; and ability/willingness to learn to edit in the backend of digital products

The ability to work independently.

Use your skills to make a real difference in early literacy education.

Flexible working: hybrid working environment

Ongoing professional development and growth opportunities.

A bright, modern office with onsite parking.

A friendly, motivated team with high standards, in a business that is 100% focused on education outcomes.