http://careers.hmhco.com/feeds/editor-writer-Texas-jobs/ Custom RSS Feed for editor-writer-Texas-jobs Wed, 22 May 2013 00:06:49 GMT en-us http://careers.hmhco.com/feeds/editor-writer-Texas-jobs/ 720 Published Job Title: Freelance Writers
Published Division/Department: Riverside Publishing
Requisition #: 5802
State/Province/County: Illinois
City: Rolling Meadows
Country: United States
Percentage of Travel: None
Position Type: 1099 Contractor
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Editorial

Riverside, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, seeks experienced freelance assessment writers specializing in middle school and high school levels (6-12) for English Language Arts and Reading.

Duties:
1. Passage writing
2. Passage finding
3. Item writing
4. Alignment of assessment items to standards and item attributes

Requirements Required Education:
BA/BS in a liberal arts field (e.g., English) from an accredited four-year university

Required Experience
Minimum of 2 years teaching experience within grades 6-12

Required Skills:
Expert knowledge of subject matter
Experience teaching and/or writing assessment materials to the Common Core State Standards
Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in spoken and written form
Ability to effectively manage timelines and competing priorities
Proficiency in MS Office tools (Word, Excel)

Preferred Education, Experience and Skills:
5 or more years of teaching and/or curriculum experience within 6-12
2 years of professional passage and/or item writing
Proven ability to write passages and/or items addressing the rigor required by the Common Core State Standards

Application Process:
DO NOT APPLY ON-LINE. Please submit resume and cover letter outlining relevant experience to: Development@hmhco.com. Documents should be Microsoft Word or .pdf files. Include the following in the subject line: RPC Freelance Job "subject" (example: RPC Freelance Job ELA)

J2W:CB Exp. 04/28/13]]>Sat, 04 May 2013 03:00:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Rolling-Meadows-Freelance-Writers-Job-IL-60008/2509282/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Rolling-Meadows-Freelance-Writers-Job-IL-60008/2509282/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: Product Marketing Manager
Published Division/Department: Heinemann
Requisition #: 5855
State/Province/County: New Hampshire
City: Portsmouth
Country: United States
Percentage of Travel: 0 - 10%
Position Type: Full Time - Regular
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Marketing

The Product Marketing Manager has strategic input into all facets of the Heinemann’s math portfolio with responsibility for the following:
- Oversee the conceptualization, implementation and budget control of innovative, integrated marketing for Heinemann’s suite of mathematics materials including, branding, positioning, and Inbound/Outbound promotion.
- Managing eMarketing campaigns, social-media campaigns, print collateral, advertising, and press releases, special events,
- Work collaboratively with the math and science acquiring editor to support the conception, position, and delivery of market-leading products tailored to market needs, including professional books and firsthand classroom materials
- Support the sales team and build their capacity with math products
- Identify growing market sectors and areas of strategic opportunity for product and promotion
- Advise on marketing strategy related to math content on the Digital Campus Additionally, the Product Marketing Manager may work on other content area publications on an as-needed basis.Works collaboratively with:Editorial, Sales, Marketing, Techonology, Production, PD Services

Requirements Required:
* 3-5 years of Marketing experience
* Experience in teaching math or working in math educational publishing experience preferred
* Minimum bachelor's degree required

“Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V and member of e-Verify.”

*LI-CT1]]>Thu, 16 May 2013 02:59:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Portsmouth-Product-Marketing-Manager-Job-NH-03801/2552075/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Portsmouth-Product-Marketing-Manager-Job-NH-03801/2552075/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: Dir Program Quality
Published Division/Department: US Sales
Requisition #: 5925
State/Province/County: Colorado
City: Denver
Country: United States
Percentage of Travel: 20% - 30%
Position Type: Part Time - Regular
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Educational Consulting/Professional Services

Purpose of the Role:

The Director of Program Quality maintains the power of our intellectual property through content alignment in all of our seminars, programs and services.
- Assures a cohesive, comprehensive and consistent best-practice presentation of The Leadership and Learning Center’s intellectual property in all programs.
- Identifies vital content for integration into Center work aligned to the 6 practice areas
- Ensures transformation of vital practice areas into appropriate Center services and products.
- Achieves individual performance goals.
- Collaborates effectively on Center teams and projects to ensure achievement of Center goals

Job Responsibilities:

Process Management
- Develops implements and manages a new LLC Programs Quality Program to provide consistency across all program delivery.
- Leads development of seminar/conference design and delivery standards and ensure adherence and accountability to standards
- Develops and implement program alignment revision model
- Manages creative resource for visuals content development
- Develops, implements and manages improved seminar/conference development process
- Develops, implements and manages improved certification process
- Creates improved feedback and coaching program for facilitators in conjunction with the Professional Learning and Delivery team.

Content:
- Review and assess programs inventory identifying key content gaps and opportunities
- Assure regular communication that supports content integration and development among PDAs and Center staff.
- Coordinate with Practice Management Leadership to identify innovate trends for incorporation into The Center’s work.
- Review custom presentations for content.
- Assess product/service content to identify needed additions and/or revisions.

Project Management:
- Serve on an internal team that will identify additional tools for presentations for our PDAs and certified trainers.
- Maintain hard copy and electronic copy of all presentation files in the office, on the network and PDA website.
- Collaborate with Senior Director Intellectual Property to create seminar and training manual development schedules.
- Work with copy editor to revise footers annually.
- Establish process and schedule for creation and distribution of updated slides incorporating new research.
- Work with marketing and sales to update ALL content descriptions.
- Participate on cross-functional teams as needed to support The Center’s internal processes, such as Retreat/Colloquy planning, PDA support, client proposals, and Q and A from CRT and PDAs.

Leadership & Management
- Focuses on mentoring, coaching and developing management staff
- Provides direct feedback and coaching to facilitators through observation. Manages performance issues relating to quality of facilitation delivery as they arise.
- Mentors and empowers staff members to meet individual and organizational long-term goals, and to increase knowledge and understanding of effective logistical support
- Works across departments/divisions with management staff to ensure department is contributing to business objectives
- Demonstrates effective people management, leadership and team-building skills

Other Duties as Assigned

Requirements:
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following job-specific requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Education required. Masters in Adult Education, Administration, Training and Facilitation or a related degree strongly preferred.
- 7-10+ years in high gradient professional development facilitation experience, or a related field.
- Professional development consultant certification experience
- Extensive experience in developing seminars and workshops including presenter’s guides
- Experience in the development services industry or a related education industry
- Experience developing and managing large groups of professional development facilitators.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following general requirements:
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills
- Proven leadership skills with large consultant groups
- The ability to multi-task and meet deadlines
- The ability to be proactive, self-directed and self-motivated
- The ability to influence decisions
- Ability to travel 20-30% of the time.

Role model in most functional competencies]]>Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Denver-Dir-Program-Quality-Job-CO-80002/2600125/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Denver-Dir-Program-Quality-Job-CO-80002/2600125/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: Content Consultant for English/Language Arts
Published Division/Department: Riverside Publishing
Requisition #: 5919
State/Province/County: Illinois
City: Rolling Meadows
Country: United States
Percentage of Travel: None
Position Type: 1099 Contractor
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Editorial

Riverside, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, seeks subject matter experts specializing in K-12 education for English Language Arts and Reading.

Duties:
1. Writing assessment items
2. Reviewing and revising assessment items and passages
3. Building formative and summative assessments
4. Aligning assessment items to standards and other attributes

Requirements:
Requirements Required Education:
BA/BS in a liberal arts field (e.g., English) from an accredited four-year university
Required Skills:
Recent teaching experience to the Common Core State Standards

Expert knowledge of subject matter

Experience teaching and/or writing assessment materials to the Common Core State Standards

Excellent editorial skills

Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in spoken and written form

Ability to effectively manage timelines and competing priorities

Proficiency in MS Office tools (Word, Excel)

Preferred Education, Experience and Skills:
3 or more years of teaching and/or curriculum experience]]>Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Rolling-Meadows-Content-Consultant-for-EnglishLanguage-Arts-Job-IL-60008/2592379/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Rolling-Meadows-Content-Consultant-for-EnglishLanguage-Arts-Job-IL-60008/2592379/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: Intern
Published Division/Department: Trade & Reference Publishers
Requisition #: 5920
State/Province/County: New York
City: New York City
Country: United States
Percentage of Travel: None
Position Type: Part Time - Intern
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Editorial

Intern will have the opportunity to observe and participate in all aspects of children’s books publishing—from manuscript stage to finished books—and will work with the editorial, design, and marketing departments. Duties include clerical work such as maintaining the archival library and editorial files, logging submissions, and some photocopying. In addition, Intern will have the opportunity to correspond with authors and illustrators, sit in on editorial meetings, screen art and manuscript submissions, and write reader reports. This is a 15 week paid internship starting in June of 2013.
Requirements Previous experience in the publishing industry preferred. Intern should have some previous office experience and a strong interest in books for young people and the publishing industry in general.]]>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/New-York-City-Intern-Job-NY-10001/2602362/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/New-York-City-Intern-Job-NY-10001/2602362/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: Information Design Lead
Published Division/Department: Digital Content Development
Requisition #: 5845
State/Province/County: Dublin
City: Dublin
Country: Ireland
Percentage of Travel: 0 - 10%
Position Type: Full Time - Regular
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Editorial

As an Information Design Lead at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), you will play a key role in defining the information design and architecture for print-to-digital products and new digital content, which includes defining the structures, granularity, and labeling of all K-12 instructional elements in a digital environment. The main aspects of the Information Design role are:
- Research customer and internal stakeholder needs for the organization and digital display of print-to-digital components and new digital instruction, activities, and learning objects
- Analyze existing instructional information from developed components and define new instructional data as needed to best determine hierarchical instructional access points
- Develop specific instructional labels as needed that fit currently accepted schemas and new schemas as they are developed.
- Develop full program content and structural metadata with the assistance of vendors or contractors, ensuring that metadata rule-sets are followed
- Ensure user-facing metadata meets HMH text and language standards so it is clear and meaningful for our users
- Along with other members of the Information Design team, engage a broad range of stakeholders to ensure information design and architecture development plans and implications are agreed and understood across functional teams, such as Program Management and Publishing Technologies

Working with the Information Design Manager, this role may also support content development teams in reviewing metadata schema needs based on up-coming programs and recommending enhancements to schemas structures.

Considerations include:
- Participate in cross-functional discussion about metadata development.
- Develop documentation with clear recommendations for go-forward metadata strategies.
- Develop and execute training for team members and others as new metadata schemas are adopted.

* Collaborate with Editorial, Marketing, Program Management, and other teams to define high-level project requirements.
* Work with Editorial team to capture and represent curriculum architecture for HMH products. This should reflect the organization and structure of lessons, assessments, practice activities, and supporting resources.
* In consultation with Platform Architecture team and other Information Design team members, define and update product metadata schemas.
* Carry out necessary tasks to optimally onboard selected information design vendors, including developing vendor ‘kits’ for development and delivering training.
* Develop, analyze, and review curricular standard correlations.
* Work with all areas of product design and development: Program Management, Project Management, Learning Design, Engineering and QA to ensure on time, on budget and agreed quality is achieved in the assigned discipline areas.
* Perform information design reviews as required on digital products, such as, platform UI, interactive textbooks, online assessments, and interactive digital content
* Work with the Information Design Manager to ensure that capacity planning is completed for all assigned projects.
Produce status reports for manager/supervisor that accurately describes current status of project deliverables.

Requirements:
Ess-- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in English or a related field
- Proven ability to use information architecture strategies: identifying logical relationships and organizational principles for semantic content and, from this, to defining “rules” that can be applied to deploy the content in a database or platform.
- Excellent writing, copyediting, and proofreading skills, with attention to detail
- Practical experience working with vendors, including engagement, onboarding, and managing performance
- Proven experience collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Excellent communication and organization skills
- Very good decision-making and problem-solving skills
- Self-motivated, able to work and communicate effectively with a variety of technical and creative individuals
- Proven ability to meet deadlines regularly and to highlight risks at early stages
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and Word

Highly Desirable
- Experience developing digital learning solutions for the K-12 market
- Well versed in topics related to information architecture, user-centered design, curriculum development, information science
- Experience in creating or inputting into the development artifacts such as, wireframes, process flows, flow charts, schematics, functional requirements, user scenarios, personas, use cases, and content matrices
- Ability to write and edit storyboards for interactive learning products that meet target learning objectives and specified learner requirements
- Experience working on an Editorial team developing K-12 educational materials
- Experience defining specific and measurable learning objectives
- Experience designing user and information flows, as well as supporting documentation

*LI-CT1]]>Wed, 15 May 2013 02:59:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-Information-Design-Lead-Job/2549634/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-Information-Design-Lead-Job/2549634/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: Content Consultant
Published Division/Department: Riverside Publishing
Requisition #: 5799
State/Province/County: Illinois
City: Rolling Meadows
Country: United States
Percentage of Travel: None
Position Type: 1099 Contractor
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Editorial

Riverside, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, seeks subject matter experts specializing in K-12 education for English Language Arts and Reading.

Duties:
1. Writing assessment items
2. Reviewing and revising assessment items and passages
3. Building formative and summative assessments
4. Aligning assessment items to standards and other attributes

Requirements Requirements Required Education:
BA/BS in a liberal arts field (e.g., English) from an accredited four-year university
Required Skills:
Recent teaching experience to the Common Core State StandardsExpert knowledge of subject matter
Experience teaching and/or writing assessment materials to the Common Core State Standards

Excellent editorial skills
Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in spoken and written form
Ability to effectively manage timelines and competing priorities
Proficiency in MS Office tools (Word, Excel)

Preferred Education, Experience and Skills:
3 or more years of teaching and/or curriculum experience

Application Process:
DO NOT APPLY ON-LINE. Please submit resume and cover letter outlining relevant experience to: Development@hmhco.com. Documents should be Microsoft Word or .pdf files. Include the following in the subject line: “Subject Matter Expert ELA”

J2W:CB Exp. 05/09/13]]>Sat, 04 May 2013 03:00:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Rolling-Meadows-Freelance-Writers-Job-IL-60008/2509286/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Rolling-Meadows-Freelance-Writers-Job-IL-60008/2509286/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: Information Design Lead
Published Division/Department: Digital Content Development
Requisition #: 5837
State/Province/County: Florida
City: Orlando
Country: United States
Percentage of Travel: 0 - 10%
Position Type: Full Time - Regular
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Editorial

As an Information Design Lead at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), you will play a key role in defining the information design and architecture for print-to-digital products and new digital content, which includes defining the structures, granularity, and labeling of all K-12 instructional elements in a digital environment. The main aspects of the Information Design role are:
- Research customer and internal stakeholder needs for the organization and digital display of print-to-digital components and new digital instruction, activities, and learning objects
- Analyze existing instructional information from developed components and define new instructional data as needed to best determine hierarchical instructional access points
- Develop specific instructional labels as needed that fit currently accepted schemas and new schemas as they are developed.
- Develop full program content and structural metadata with the assistance of vendors or contractors, ensuring that metadata rule-sets are followed
- Ensure user-facing metadata meets HMH text and language standards so it is clear and meaningful for our users
- Along with other members of the Information Design team, engage a broad range of stakeholders to ensure information design and architecture development plans and implications are agreed and understood across functional teams, such as Program Management and Publishing Technologies

Working with the Information Design Manager, this role may also support content development teams in reviewing metadata schema needs based on up-coming programs and recommending enhancements to schemas structures.

Considerations include:
- Participate in cross-functional discussion about metadata development.
- Develop documentation with clear recommendations for go-forward metadata strategies.
- Develop and execute training for team members and others as new metadata schemas are adopted.

* Collaborate with Editorial, Marketing, Program Management, and other teams to define high-level project requirements.
* Work with Editorial team to capture and represent curriculum architecture for HMH products. This should reflect the organization and structure of lessons, assessments, practice activities, and supporting resources.
* In consultation with Platform Architecture team and other Information Design team members, define and update product metadata schemas.
* Carry out necessary tasks to optimally onboard selected information design vendors, including developing vendor ‘kits’ for development and delivering training.
* Develop, analyze, and review curricular standard correlations.
* Work with all areas of product design and development: Program Management, Project Management, Learning Design, Engineering and QA to ensure on time, on budget and agreed quality is achieved in the assigned discipline areas.
* Perform information design reviews as required on digital products, such as, platform UI, interactive textbooks, online assessments, and interactive digital content
* Work with the Information Design Manager to ensure that capacity planning is completed for all assigned projects.
Produce status reports for manager/supervisor that accurately describes current status of project deliverables.

Requirements:
Essential

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in English or a related field

Proven ability to use information architecture strategies: identifying logical relationships and organizational principles for semantic content and, from this, to defining “rules” that can be applied to deploy the content in a database or platform.

Excellent writing, copyediting, and proofreading skills, with attention to detail

Practical experience working with vendors, including engagement, onboarding, and managing performance

Proven experience collaborating with cross-functional teams

Excellent communication and organization skills

Very good decision-making and problem-solving skills

Self-motivated, able to work and communicate effectively with a variety of technical and creative individuals

Proven ability to meet deadlines regularly and to highlight risks at early stages

Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and Word

Highly Desirable

Experience developing digital learning solutions for the K-12 market

Well versed in topics related to information architecture, user-centered design, curriculum development, information science

Experience in creating or inputting into the development artifacts such as, wireframes, process flows, flow charts, schematics, functional requirements, user scenarios, personas, use cases, and content matrices

Ability to write and edit storyboards for interactive learning products that meet target learning objectives and specified learner requirements

Experience working on an Editorial team developing K-12 educational materials

Experience defining specific and measurable learning objectives

Experience designing user and information flows, as well as supporting documentation]]>Thu, 09 May 2013 02:59:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Orlando-Information-Design-Lead-Job-FL-32801/2540345/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Orlando-Information-Design-Lead-Job-FL-32801/2540345/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS