- Strong and engaging voice and tone
- Identify high-interest stories and arcs
- Simplify complex text/ideas for specific audiences (internal and external)
- Provide fast production of publish-ready copy (grammar/structure/editorial)
- Proactive, positive author/writer/editor relationship management
- Manage volume projects across multiple vendors/sub-contractors
- Aware of both print and online publishing needs/environments
- Can implement messaging policies and research (nonprofit/marketing)
- Fact checking, exhaustive research abilities
- AP, APA, Chicago (16), MLA, house style
- Content Management Systems, WordPress
- Some CSS, HTML
- Trained in XML markup
- MS Office, Adobe, Acrobat, InDesign, InCopy, some Photoshop
- SEO/SEM/Keyword research
- Text localization
- English/Spanish translation
- Cultural/community awareness as a support to translation
- Multiple Spanish dialects, knowledge of regional applicability
- Knowledge of Latino community and needs, including rhetorical practices
- Classroom teaching experience (K-12, college freshman, returning adults)
- Familiarity with K-12 and post-secondary learning environment, research and practice
- Understanding of common core standards and curriculum alignment
- Provision of all levels of Bloom in curriculum/lessons/assessments
- Training in the Lexile reading measurement, matching prose to Lexile levels
- Training and work with Fountas Pinnell systems
- Specialty training in assessment and rubrics for online schools
- Lesson plans that connect with students at their level/interest
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