Editorial Assistant - Economics

Start your higher education publishing career at Macmillan. We are passionate about creating great learning tools and resources for students, and we are looking for an editorial assistant in our Economics group who shares our passion for learning and higher education.

The Editorial Assistant will provide support to the Economics editorial team which develops content for the college classroom. The assistant will help with various editorial tasks while gaining exposure to the editorial function within educational publishing.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Assist editors with project planning and editorial development, as well as sales, marketing, and market development research and support.
• Recruit, communicate with, and help coordinate review programs and implement surveys in Qualtrics to solicit feedback on content and new resources.
• Correspond with authors, instructors, and sales representatives.
• Format and prepare content for production.
• Maintain and update data in key editorial systems.
• Perform administrative tasks such as running reports, processing payments for reviews, focus groups, and vendor invoices, handling sample requests and mailing, and managing files and project logs.
• Help find solutions and offer support for miscellaneous needs or tasks that arise in the day-to-day work of the editorial team.
• Special projects and career development that will help expand your skill set and explore potential career paths at Macmillan Learning.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required.
• Ability to communicate and coordinate effectively and professionally with diverse stakeholders across departments
  Strong multi-tasking and time management skills in a fast-paced environment.
• Initiative, curiosity, and follow-through.
• Exceptional organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Must be able to concentrate and maintain detail-orientation in busy, open office environment.
• Ability to prioritize projects, meet deadlines, and work independently.
• Position requires concentrated screen time for long periods as well as multi-tasking; may involve working in an open-office environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Internship or work experience with publisher, educational publishing company, or edtech company.
• Experience working as a teacher, teacher's assistant, or tutor.
• Experience working in a corporate office or academic office environment.
• Customer outreach experience.
• Project management experience.
• Experience working with shared documents on Google office suite, Adobe Acrobat, and project tracking software such as JIRA.
• Knowledge of educational technology a plus.

Annual Salary: $42,000.

This position is located in our New York City, NY Office. The role is a hybrid role with 3 days a week in the office.

Benefits:

Regular full-time and qualifying part-time employees and their dependents are eligible for Macmillan benefits, effective on the employee's date of hire. Macmillan also offers health benefits coverage to qualifying same-sex and opposite-sex domestic partners (may require additional documentation) of active employees.

• Competitive pay and bonus plan
• Generous Health Benefits (Medical insurance (PPO & EPO through BlueCross BlueShield, HSA through Health Equity), Vision insurance (Blue View Vision), Dental insurance (Cigna))
• Contributions to your 401k retirement account through Fidelity
• Generous paid time off, sick time, discretionary days. and paid holidays (International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Juneteenth, Indigenous People's Day, and more!)
• Employee Assistance Program, Education Assistance Program
• 100% employer-paid life and AD&D insurance
• And much more!

Macmillan Learning is a privately-held, family owned company that improves lives through learning. By linking research to learning practice, we develop pioneering products and learning materials for students that are highly effective and drive improved outcomes. Our engaging content is developed in partnership with the world's best researchers, educators, administrators, and developers. To learn more, please visit or see us on , , or join our . Macmillan Learning is a division of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a family-owned global media company headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, veteran, family and economic status and background, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels.

The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC d/b/a Macmillan Learning. Bedford Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC has developed an affirmative action program in compliance with the NY Department of Education's guidance. Portions of the affirmative action program are available for review by applicants and employees by contacting Human Resources at Macmillan Learning.