Associate Director, Editorial

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🏄 California – Remote

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💵 $140.8k - $176k / year

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WestEd

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1966

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

WestEd is a nonprofit research, evaluation, and services organization that partners with schools, districts, communities, and policymakers to improve education and human development. Through rigorous research, professional learning, and technical assistance, WestEd supports early childhood development, K–12 and special education, assessment, teacher workforce development, and systemwide transformation. It also focuses on policy/practice guidance and emerging areas such as AI in education, economic mobility, and workforce pathways to translate evidence into practical solutions and resources.

📋 Description

• Lead WestEd’s editorial team and ensure important products are delivered on time and meet rigorous quality standards • Provide developmental editing for high-visibility, complex, and sensitive nonfiction products • Uphold accurate, objective, evidence-based content standards • Diagnose structural problems, revise content for logic and clarity, draft suggested text, and improve readability and consistency • Collaborate with designers, proofreaders, and accessibility experts to prepare products for public release • Identify accessibility issues and suggest inclusive document adjustments • Lead intake for new products and publications and assess scope, complexity, and editorial support needs • Estimate and plan work, negotiate timelines and scope, and advise on editorial capacity and funding • Allocate labor across concurrent projects and coordinate editing, design, proofreading, and accessibility resources • Manage projects in Asana, anticipate bottlenecks, and resolve workflow issues • Evaluate and refine intake, estimation, prioritization, and QA processes • Lead four direct reports, set expectations, provide feedback, and support professional growth • Conduct midyear and annual performance reviews • Delegate decisions and resolve complex or sensitive editorial issues • Ensure editorial quality and consistency and coach team members • Guide responsible use of AI in editing • Participate in hiring and onboarding and engage contractors when appropriate • Communicate QA expectations and clarify Communications processes across the agency • Provide guidance and training on responsible AI use in writing • Strengthen agency-wide writing through training, tools, and guidance • Address concerns about accuracy, objectivity, nonpartisan stance, and evidentiary support • Lead decisions on WestEd’s house style • Participate in the Communications leadership team • Edit or contribute to funding proposals, RFP responses, capacity statements, annual reports, and web content

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher • Minimum 10 years of experience in roles where developmental editing of nonfiction publications was the primary responsibility • Experience supervising or leading a team • Strong project management and prioritization skills • Comfort with project management software, ideally Asana • Exceptional developmental editing skills • Ability to digest complex research content and judge whether claims are supported by evidence • Sound judgment on appropriate use of AI in editorial work • Advanced degree in education, English, public policy, or a related field, or equivalent experience (desired) • Knowledge of education and human development fields, research methods, and federal publishing contexts (desired) • Experience editing research-based publications and ensuring claims are supported by evidence (desired) • Command of APA, CMOS, and house-style conventions (desired) • Familiarity with Section 508 accessibility in publishing (desired) • Must be authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is not available • Must pass a criminal background check, fingerprint validation, and education verification

🏖️ Benefits

• 15% contribution toward retirement effective day 1 of employment and immediately 100% vested • Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Account option • Health/welfare benefits effective the first of the month following the hire date • PTO: 19 days, increasing to 21 days beginning the third year of employment • 12 paid holidays • Life insurance valued at 3x gross salary, maximum $500,000 • Opportunities for annual merit-based performance increases • Annual incentives • Professional development opportunities • Mentorship program • Option to work remotely for employee convenience, depending on position or project requirements