Lead Publisher: Languages

6 months ago


Cape Town, South Africa Maskew Miller Learning Recruitment Full time

**Job Desciption**:
**Lead Publisher: Languages**:
**About Maskew Miller Learning**:
Maskew Miller Learning lends its name from the most trusted and recognisable publisher in South African history - Maskew Miller. At Maskew Miller Learning, we believe that learning allows people to move forward in life, enabling them to have brighter futures.

We are a B-BBEE - Level 1 contributor, providing education solutions ranging from early childhood learning to professional certification, curriculum-based print materials, e-learning content and tools, as well as teacher training. We publish in all 11 official languages and have the widest range of CAPS-approved content trusted by teachers. Our quality educational resources and materials are used in schools, TVET colleges, higher education institutions, and home and professional environments.?

**Main purpose**:
The Lead Publisher for Languages Portfolio leads and manages the Functional Content Development and publishing process/function as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the content creation for a product or service for the Languages portfolio consisting of African languages, English Language and Afrikaans Language. Working in-house as part of a project team.

**Key Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Management/Leading**:

- Lead the Languages team of Publishers and Managing Editors to ensure business strategy and objectives are met (direct line management)
- Develop and mentor Publishers, Managing Editors and content developers/SME's for Languages, to meet their full potential by upskilling/reskilling as required to meet current and future role responsibilities effectively
- Collaborate with leadership to manage capacity of team
- Mitigate and manage potential risks

**Contribution to Product Strategy**:

- Research and analyse curricula, evaluation criteria, local pedagogy, submission/tender requirements
- Generate product or service pedagogy framework based on policy documents above
- Review and analyse competitor products/services
- Generate product or service concept/vision for all components

**Financial Management**:

- Prepare product budgets for sign-off (Forecast costs)
- Manage product costs within approved budgets
- Sign off and approvals of work as per schedule of authority

**Control the flow of work through tracking of work-in-progress**:

- Tracking between various internal and external team members.
- Updating schedules during the editorial and production process to ensure clear guidelines during the publishing process.

**Content development & Publishing - Manage a list of titles/products**:

- Develop detailed specific product/service plan
- Develop detailed instructional design/digital brief and cover briefs
- Develop detailed author/SME commissioning brief
- Recruit appropriate authors/SMEs
- Commission content/service according to detailed product plan
- Provide continuous support during the writing/content development process
- Review quality and conformity and provide feedback until content is approved. This includes critical review of our products vs competitor products
- Backlist maintenance - manage reprint corrections; respond to customer queries

**Project Management**:

- Create project schedule (forecast time)
- Ensure that project is completed by due dates

**Production Support**:

- Responsible for the overall deadline of products and projects
- Support and guide Managing Editors during production phase by:

- addressing content/author queries
- approving final artwork and photo selection
- reviewing first and artwork pages
- signing off and approving master set

**Testing/trialing/market research**:

- Develop and validate prototype/sections/full product for testing/trialing/research purposes
- Contribute to development of content for marketing material, including creating the product value proposition

**Relationship with external stakeholders**:

- Develop relationships with Ministry officials and external stakeholders
- Attend relevant workshops, conferences and other events to stay up to date with the Languages curricula
- Work closely with authors/freelancers to create products or services based on relevant pedagogy

**Digital**:

- Manage the development of digital content
- Concrete understanding of Learning Design best practice and principles for digital learning

**Educational Requirements**:
**Experience Requirements**:

- At least five years teaching and/or publishing and/or market related experience in Languages
- Experience in managing in-house and freelance staff
- Proven record of success in delivering multiple complex projects

**Skills and Competencies**:

- Highly organized
- Using appropriate methods and a flexible interpersonal style to help build a cohesive team; facilitating the completion of team goals
- Proven research, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Allocating decision-making authority and/or task responsibility to appropriate others to maximize the organization's and individuals' effectiveness
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