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Math Leader & Editor
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Reports to: Director of Content
Do you:
- Have a desire to shape the future of education and wish to join an organization that will change the future of educational publishing
- Wish to develop and motivate a community of authors to create, collaborate, disseminate and publish online educational material and printed textbooks
- Believe in open user-generated content
Responsibilities:
- Provide content-based leadership for CK-12
- Oversee development of math instructional text-based materials at middle and high school level
- Identify, develop or acquire high-quality, grade appropriate curriculum that serves as the kernel for global community use, reuse, innovation and scaling
- Recruit writers, negotiate and finalize contracts, and define scope and quality of work
- Establish pedagogical standards for the content where needed
- Develop a sample chapter for writers to model
- Review and manage the acceptance criteria for content
- Manage the flex book creation process and responsible for the creation of content that is able to be re-purposed into different levels, teaching needs, etc. (e.g. ESL)
- Coordinate communication among writers, domain experts and other vendors to produce timely completion of high quality materials
- Manage the development of mathematical images and graphics with writers, domain experts, and artwork vendors
- Coordinate all aspects of external review process and implementation of revision suggestions
- Review and edit content for factual accuracy, quality, readability, grade level suitability, pedagogy, currency and fit for state standards
- Actively support the recruitment of pilot sites for materials testing and secure user feedback to enhance materials
- Own the user experience. Work closely with K-12 school districts, teachers, and students to structure CK-12 content in ways that result in ongoing content authoring and enhanced learning
- Actively contribute to the open-educational resource paradigm for math materials for K-12 settings
- Collaborative and contribute to the team. This position will work with other discipline Leaders in the content group
Requirements:
- Masters degree required, PhD preferred in mathematics
- Ability to innovate and pioneer new opportunities online
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Outstanding interpersonal skills, initiative and problem-resolution skills
- Experience in editorial and educational publishing
- Experience and success in project management and management of multiple projects at a time
- Entrepreneurial mindset and energized by start-up environment
Preferred:
- Experience in the development of curriculum materials in K-12 in compliance with state and national standards
- Experience in classroom teaching and training of teachers