Digital Content Specialist

Digital Content Specialist

Payrate: $22.00 - $24.00/hr. Summary: Digital Content Specialist (DCS) assists the Digital Content Manager with the development and deployment of critical, innovative learning content in various Elsevier/NHE products such as Sher path courseware, Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing and other critical digital products. These products play a key role in the adoption of Elsevier's market leading franchise titles that serve the Nursing and Heath Education faculty and students. This individual manages assigned digital projects from inception to production release utilizing digital content workflows, authoring tools, and technologies as appropriate. Serves as the day-to-day contact for internal and external digital content development partners including Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Instructional Designers (IDs), and global content vendors throughout the development process.

Responsibilities:

• Manage day-to-day digital content development
• In conjunction with the Digital Content Manager, plans digital content development and delivery cadence.
• Plays a key role in stand-up meetings with the internal and external content development partners.
• Ensures lead and peer review SMEs are delivering work products per schedule.
• Proactively identifies potential issues with SMEs and works with the Digital Content Manager to find alternative approaches to mitigate risks.
• Oversee reviews from SMEs, consolidates reviews, queries SMEs and outsourced vendors as appropriate to ensure quality on-time content delivery.
• In conjunction with the Digital Content Manager and other internal participants develops and/or brings forth suggestions for improving existing writing, assessment, and instructional design guidelines.
• Performs high-level review of all stages of outlines, assessments, and content storyboards and sends them to the appropriate partners for detailed review.
• Coordinates with other participants and/or drives permission and art research as needed.
• Coordinates classification mapping, EAQ, and ancillary mapping tasks as needed with the help of internal and external resources.
• Coordinates delivery of build content and oversees UAT fixes and ensures gold delivery of assigned course product.
• It plays a key role in ensuring on-time delivery.
• Effective communications
• Provide / support / maintain timely communications between internal and external teams
• Establish ongoing communication plans
• Develop and maintain good working relationships with internal colleagues and outsourced vendors
• Provide guidance on the impact of the timeline of any proposed changes to functional scope

Requirements:

• Knowledge of health education markets
• Product development process
• Product development lifecycle including multiple approaches such as agile, waterfall, and iterative
• Project coordination skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft office applications
• Self-starter with strong organizational, interpersonal, and written communication skills.
• Flexible and creative approach to problem solving, resourceful, decisive, with attention to detail.
• Work independently without close supervision.
• Able to foresee and avert problems. Manage SMEs and interact professionally with SMEs and colleagues.
• Manage several complex projects simultaneously.
• Be flexible to deal with high velocity situations without feeling overwhelmed.
• Take ownership of projects throughout the content development process.
• Knowledge of publishing process and MS Office. Some familiarity with EPUB, HTML5, HTML, and XML.

Education and Experience:

• B.A./B.S. in English or related area required.
• Two or more years' experience with digital content development is preferred.
• Experience with media (online courses, multimedia, etc.) a plus.

Pay Transparency: The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $22.00 - $24.00 /hour. Non-exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience. Full-time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages. Packages may include medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment, 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match, life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, accommodations and reimbursement for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus. Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law.