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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $100 / hour

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✏️ Content Writer

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EdReports.org

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2015

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

Education • Non-profit

EdReports. org is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes by providing free, comprehensive reports that evaluate the quality of instructional materials for K-12 education in subjects such as English Language Arts (ELA), Math, and Science. The organization emphasizes the importance of high-quality content for shaping the future of education and seeks to equip teachers, administrators, and leaders with the tools to select the best educational materials. EdReports. org utilizes educator-developed review tools and processes to maintain high standards for instructional materials, promoting equity and better learning outcomes for all students. Their mission is to ensure that rigorous, college and career-ready standards are met and that all students have access to excellent educational resources.

📋 Description

• Provide approximately 25 hours of substantive and technical editorial support for Multilingual Learner (MLL) Early Math tools and supporting resources • Review prioritized materials for organization, flow, readability, terminology, precision, consistency, and accessibility • Substantively and developmentally edit content to improve organization, sequencing, clarity, transitions, directions, explanations, and relationships among concepts, evidence, criteria, and guidance • Edit for clarity and precision by reducing ambiguity, unnecessary complexity, repetition, and wordiness while preserving nuance and intended meaning • Preserve technical fidelity regarding mathematical concepts, multilingual learner considerations, evidence statements, criteria, scoring guidance, and intended interpretations • Identify and document substantive questions requiring review by EdReports content or subject-matter experts • Strengthen consistency across terminology, definitions, directions, examples, language conventions, and explanations • Copyedit and conduct quality control for grammar, syntax, punctuation, spelling, mechanics, usage, and editorial consistency • Incorporate one consolidated round of EdReports feedback and conduct a final editorial review as time permits • Deliver edited priority materials, editorial questions and recommendations, an editorial style/decision log, and final revised materials • Participate in limited project check-ins or editorial consultations • Track hours against the 25-hour maximum, alert the project lead when approaching the limit, and submit detailed invoices

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated professional experience editing complex educational, technical, research-based, instructional, or comparable content • Demonstrated experience with both substantive/developmental editing and copyediting • Strong technical editing skills, including improving organization, clarity, readability, and language while preserving accuracy, nuance, and intended meaning • Exceptional command of English grammar, syntax, punctuation, usage, mechanics, and editorial conventions • Ability to identify ambiguity, inconsistencies, terminology conflicts, unsupported wording, and subtle differences in meaning • Ability to translate or edit complex ideas into clear, precise, reader-centered language without oversimplifying • Experience applying style guides and maintaining consistent editorial conventions • Experience creating or maintaining editorial style sheets, terminology guides, decision logs, or similar tools • Ability to distinguish editorial issues from substantive content questions requiring subject-matter expert review • Experience collaborating with authors, researchers, curriculum specialists, content experts, or other subject-matter experts • Strong attention to detail and ability to independently manage work, communicate questions or risks promptly, incorporate feedback, and meet agreed-upon deadlines • Understanding of K–12 education and educator audiences through professional editing, curriculum development, instructional materials, education research, teaching, or comparable experience • 5+ years of professional writing and/or editing experience, including substantive editing of complex, technical, research-based, educational, or similarly specialized content • Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of relevant education, training, and professional experience