ACADEMIC MANAGER JOB DESCRIPTION
The Academic Manager is a key figure in ensuring the quality and timeliness of academic content, encompassing digital, print, and training materials. This role involves comprehensive management, from overseeing project-specific teams of writers and editors to hiring, training, and solving subject-related academic issues. Essential duties include the pedagogical and conceptual review of content, maintaining high standards across all outputs.
An Overview of Academic Manager Job Description Responsibilities and Qualifications
1. Embark on a transformative journey with us as an Academic Manager at a leading Education organization, known for its commitment to research-based academic methods of teaching and learning. Our visionary enterprise is distinguished by a unique, scalable, for-profit social-impact model that not only champions profitability but is deeply invested in driving educational advancements. Having already made a significant mark by reaching over 1 million children across more than 3,000 schools in 8 countries, your role will be instrumental in further propelling our mission, shaping the future of global education.
Academic Manager Roles and Responsibilities:
- Expected to deliver English academic content projects to the Production team on agreed timelines and to a high standard of quality.
- Team-handling role, accountable for quality and timely delivery of work from team members.
- Take end-to-end ownership of all academic content of a given project (with digital, print, and/or training components)
- Reviewing authored output for pedagogical and conceptual quality.
- Hiring and training team, and solving academic issues related to English subject content.
- Direct responsibility for a team of writers and editors working on a project
- Setting a culture of quality, accountability, and meritocracy on the team.
- Running project dashboards and giving regular feedback to the team.
Academic Manager Requirements and Qualifications:
- At Least 4+ years of experience in the english content writing is a must.
- Work currently or in the past with an education publishing company is a must.
- Work as a teacher for at least 1-2 years with a reputable school.
- Experience in developing K1-K8 textbooks.
- Experience managing an academic team
- Excellent writing and instructional design skills