Project Manager: Educational Publishing

**PROJECT MANAGER: EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING (Spanish speaker)**

**the company**

At The Content Station we create, edit, design, and deliver content for education publishers. We partner with content experts, teachers, schools and publishers globally to deliver high-quality print and digital content for effective learning. Our team is based across 11 countries and we work with clients on five continents.

**the role**

The main objective for the role of **PROJECT MANAGER** is to manage projects, both print and digital, as briefed by our clients, with on-time and under-budget delivery and to ensure our processes and ways of working are complied with.

The **PROJECT MANAGER** role, reporting to the PM Team Lead with a dotted line to the Publishing Operations Director, whilst working closely with the Senior Managers and Directors, is to ensure a full understanding of the client’s and project’s needs and manage the project to delivery.

**key accountabilities**

I am accountable for keeping project spend under the set budget limit, for all components and tasks.

I am accountable for ensuring the project team is fully resourced, contracted, and comprehensively briefed.

I am accountable for all project deliverables, to the mutually agreed schedule and deadlines.

I am accountable for ensuring project content is of the appropriate quality and to the satisfaction of the client in conjunction with the Content Lead.

**responsibilities**
- Ensure clients are provided with a professional, responsive and rewarding customer experience, delivering to the brief
- To understand and document the workflow and expectations of the project from the kick off, and to embed them in the project
- Ensure the correct project team (internal & external) is resourced, including negotiating and briefing, and are qualified for the task
- Embed the TCS project playbook and processes in each project, from planning to delivery
- Ensure all project admin, including purchase orders and supplier contracts, are issued in the correct way, at the correct time.
- Manage and keep the schedule up to date, to enable anticipating, identifying, and resolving critical issues in a timely way, with an awareness of all project dependencies.
- Manage and keep the budget tracker up to date, to enable anticipating, identifying, and resolving, critical issues in a timely way
- Working with the Content Manager or Editors (internal and external) to ensure the quality assurance checks have taken place and quality expectations are met
- Ensure project documentation is complete, current, and appropriately stored; the PM must set up the structure of the folder, and follow all required naming convention
- Work closely with stakeholders to ensure effective and frequent updates and timely escalation of any issues; problem solving and suggesting solutions and mitigations
- Run relevant update meetings, internally and externally, and ensure frequent client communication
- Contribute to the TCS supplier database by adding trusted freelancers across a range of tasks

**the company**

At The Content Station we create, edit, design, & deliver content for education publishers. We partner with content experts, teachers, schools and publishers globally to deliver high-quality print and digital content for effective learning. Our team is based across 9 countries and we work with clients on five continents.

**the role**

The main objective for the role of **PROJECT MANAGER** is to manage content development projects for on-time and under-budget delivery to our clients and ensure our agile project management framework is embedded in all projects.

The **PROJECT MANAGER**, reporting to the **Head of Content**, will work hand-in-hand with our regional **Directors**, to define and refine customer requirements on content development projects.

**the responsibilities**
- ensure clients are provided with a professional, responsive and rewarding customer experience to ensure retention of customers
- as project delivery lead, organize & manage publishing projects to ensure on-time and under-budget delivery;
- embed the TCS project playbook in each project, from planning to delivery;
- embed the TCS agile project management framework in each project to ensure flexibility, productivity & transparency and high-quality deliverables;
- manage real-time reporting of project status including anticipating, identifying, and resolving, critical issues;
- ensure project documentation is complete, current, and appropriately stored;
- work closely with stakeholders to ensure effective and frequent updates and timely escalation of any issues;
- run relevant update meetings, internally and externally, and ensure frequent client communication;
- manage and report regularly on project budgets & schedules;
- support the Publishing Resources Director in assessing and building a database of trusted suppliers

**the person**

First & foremost, The Content Station is looking for someone with a global outloo