Copy Editor (Contract)

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• Review, edit, and maintain content reputed company a Content Management System (CMS), ensuring accuracy, consistency, and publishing readiness.
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• Collaborate with curriculum developers, learning designers, writers, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders.
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• Support content publishing workflows and content governance processes.
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• Manage multiple assignments simultaneously while meeting project deadlines.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in English, Professional Writing, Journalism, Communications, Education, or a reputed company field, or equivalent professional experience.
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• Ability to work independently in a remote environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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• Experience working reputed company a Content Management System (CMS) to create, edit, review, and publish content.
• Experience in maintaining content quality and consistency across digital learning platforms.
• Familiarity with structured content, metadata, tagging, and publishing workflows.
• Experience editing educational publishing, curriculum, assessment, instructional, or professional learning content.
• Familiarity with the Science of Reading and evidence-based literacy instruction.
• Experience in maintaining editorial style guides and quality standards.
• Experience collaborating with distributed or virtual teams.
• Portfolio or samples demonstrating professional editing work.

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