Publications Specialist II
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Nexight GroupTransportation research
This is a remote position.Full-TimeSenior
SalarySalary Range: $80,000–$110,000 USD
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7–10 years of progressively responsible experience in editorial and publication management
- Required Skills
- Microsoft Excel
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, English, Technical Communications, Publishing, or a related field.
- 7–10 years of progressively responsible editorial and publication management experience.
- Demonstrated experience managing the production lifecycle of a recurring periodical, magazine, journal, or comparable publication.
- Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder editorial workflows, version control, concurrent publication cycles, and time-sensitive deadlines.
- Working knowledge of major editorial style guides, particularly GPO and Chicago.
- Experience with Section 508 accessibility.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Ability to complete the required federal government personnel security/background investigation and obtain required facility and system access.
- Advanced substantive editing, copyediting, proofreading, fact-checking, and editorial quality assurance skills.
- Ability to translate complex technical or research information for nontechnical audiences.
- Preferred: Master’s degree or advanced professional certification in a related field; technical, scientific, research, engineering, or specialty publication experience; federal publishing or communications experience; transportation, infrastructure, engineering, or applied-research communications experience; advanced Section 508 expertise; Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly InDesign and Acrobat.
Responsibilities
- Manage editorial planning, production schedules, article tracking, version control, reviews, approvals, production, distribution, and archiving for a quarterly print and digital magazine.
- Maintain an editorial pipeline balancing evergreen content with emerging transportation research, innovations, and trends.
- Develop content and story ideas; interview contributors as needed and edit, proofread, fact-check, and quality-assure articles.
- Translate complex technical and research information into clear, accurate content for technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Coordinate authors, technical reviewers, editors, designers, federal communications staff, legal counsel, and public affairs personnel through review and approval.
- Work with graphic designers to integrate text, photography, data, charts, and illustrations into print and digital products.
- Support communications and promotional materials associated with each issue.
- Resolve editorial, workflow, and production challenges and recommend process improvements.
- Verify incorporation of technical review comments and required management, legal, public affairs, accessibility, and other approvals.
- Ensure compliance with the GPO Style Manual, Chicago Manual of Style, Section 508 requirements, and applicable federal publishing standards.
- Coordinate final proofing, prepress review, permissions, accessibility, digital files, publication packages, distribution, and archiving.
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