Copy Editor, Specialist – LTE

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🔥 21 hours ago

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $24 - $29 / hour

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📝 Copywriter

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Pearson VUE

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1994

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Pearson VUE is a global leader in computer-based testing, providing a wide range of credentialing and certification exams for various industries. They support test-takers and test owners by offering resources, scheduling options, and accommodations to ensure equitable access to testing. Their mission is to empower candidates and enrich communities through the delivery of high-stakes exams that validate professional skills and knowledge, contributing to career advancement and industry standards.

📋 Description

• Implement grammar, spelling, usage, punctuation, syntax, and style according to department, client, and industry standards • Ensure uniformity and consistency across assessment components and identify errors throughout the workday • Apply client style guidelines, query deviations when appropriate, and create or modify guidelines when needed • Understand and manage the copyeditor’s scope of responsibility, escalating concerns when necessary • Pursue learning opportunities to strengthen editorial expertise and integrate emerging best practices • Follow quality assurance, quality control, and review guidelines while recognizing editorial, validity, reputational, and program risks • Use Pearson-preferred applications and publishing platforms and suggest workflow enhancements • Identify or develop digital job aids, documentation, and colleague training • Assist with staff training, mentoring, seminars, and one-on-one support • Collaborate across Editorial, Asset Services, Content, CDS, Pearson, and other departments • Contribute to checklists, process documents, fact-checking, item writing, scoring checks, and cross-functional initiatives • Serve as lead editor when assigned, coordinating editorial obligations and influencing program decisions • Create training and process documents, work logs, and review or approve schedules • Coordinate editors’ work, monitor schedules, track assets, and communicate status, scope changes, risks, issues, defects, deadlines, resources, and overtime needs to the manager • Make final editorial decisions as lead editor and escalate issues in a timely manner • Leverage AI tools to develop, review, and enhance assessment content with appropriate editorial oversight • Attend meetings, complete administrative tasks, support efficiency initiatives, identify and escalate problems, and champion improved technology, tools, and processes • Maintain responsive business communications, follow time-off protocols, arrange backup coverage, and collaborate effectively

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field (e.g., literature, language, journalism) or equivalent certification/on-the-job training • Minimum of three years’ editorial experience • Minimum of two years’ educational assessment experience • Strong end-to-end copyediting proficiency in spelling, grammar, terminology, punctuation, syntax, diction, and usage • Proficiency interpreting and applying major style and usage references, including Chicago Manual of Style, Gregg Reference Manual, and Garner’s Modern English Usage • Proficiency with Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Office 365 apps: Word, Outlook, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, and Excel • Basic understanding of HTML/XML for web publishing • Ability to adapt to evolving software and requirements • Understanding of copyright law in assessment and when to escalate concerns • Understanding of educational assessment foundations, including content standards, alignment, validity, and item-level statistics • Understanding of assessment design interactions, including passage–item relationships, item types, metadata, and accommodations • Understanding of assessment best practices, including universal design, plain English, and accessibility design • Experience or proficiency with Pearson-preferred applications and platforms, including ABBI, eStyle, and Oracle, and related publishing workflows • Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, manage deadlines, maintain confidentiality, and collaborate across departments • Proficiency in AI-supported content development, including prompting, refining, and evaluating AI outputs

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits information is provided via a linked resource; specific benefits are not listed in the posting