Copy Editor

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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 and query appropriate deviations; create or modify client style guidelines when needed • Manage copyediting scope and flag concerns when requests go beyond scope • Adhere to quality assurance, quality control, and review guidelines • Recognize the impact of editorial errors on item/test validity, reputation, and program risks • Apply educational assessment foundations and consider interactions among passages, items, metadata, accommodations, and other components • Use Pearson-preferred applications and platforms and support publishing workflows • Identify or develop digital job aids and documentation; create training for colleagues when needed • 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 and coordinate with Content, Program Teams, and other departments • Create training/process documents and work logs; review and 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 appropriately • Leverage AI tools to develop, review, and enhance assessment content with appropriate editorial oversight • Attend meetings, complete administrative tasks, support efficiency initiatives, and provide training to vendors or contractors when appropriate • Identify and escalate problems; balance cost, efficiency, schedule impact, and quality when setting priorities • Champion new technologies, tools, and processes to improve efficiency and efficacy • Maintain responsive communications, schedule time off according to protocol, 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’ experience in educational assessment • Strong end-to-end copyediting proficiency in spelling, grammar, terminology, punctuation, syntax, diction, and usage • Ability to interpret and apply 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 applications including 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 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 • Strong understanding of copyright law application in assessment • Proficiency with Pearson-preferred applications and platforms such as ABBI, eStyle, and Oracle, including publishing workflows involving XPRT/TN8, XML, and MathML • Proficiency in AI-supported content development, including prompting, refining, and evaluating AI outputs • Clear and respectful communication, constructive feedback, sound judgment, organization, reliability, adaptability, and professionalism

🏖️ Benefits

• No bonus eligibility • Benefits information available via the employer-provided benefits link