Senior Project Manager (13 month contract)

If you have solid editorial project management experience, ideally within Educational Publishing, and are looking for a varied and exciting new role, then get in touch! We have an opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to work across an expanding list of education and ELT titles. This is a 13 month fixed term contract, with part-time hours of 24 hours per week. Our client is a prestigious publishing organisation that works with global Education and ELT publishers providing editorial and project management services. For this role, they offer remote working so this doesn't need to be an office based role.

As Senior Project Manager for Education your main remit will be to schedule and manage the editorial stages of largescale multi-component publishing products. Responsibilities include:

• To manage project teams & line manage in-house team of around 5 project editors/managers
• To manage one or more of the education team's customer accounts
• To communicate effectively with publishing customers
• To add value for customers by identifying potential project risks and issues as early as possible and proactively managing these
• To ensure that all products are delivered on time, meet quality standards, fall within budget and are produced to the required specification
• To assist the education and ELT director and mentor project managers/editors as required

The ideal Senior Project Manager will have a background in editorial project management within Educational Publishing ideally. As well as having a background as an Editor, you will have strong organisation and communication skills. To find out more about this fantastic opportunity to join this fast growing publishing organisation, servicing the Education and ELT sector, get in touch ASAP.

Closing date: 23rd October 2020

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