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Project Manager

Written by Steph Reierson

Summary

The principal role of the Project Manager is to plan, organize, and control resources to shepherd cross-departmental projects from A to Z. We are looking for a contract project manager who is available for 30-40 hours per week.

Role and Responsibilities

  • Owns project launch upon receipt of contract
    • Initiates/runs external product launch meeting with client and BBM team
    • Initiates/runs internal product launch meeting with client and BBM team
    • Creates workflow in Wrike project management platform
  • Project staffing
    • Collaboratively identifies staffing needs with department heads 
    • Assists in sourcing and onboarding new vendors
  • Next-step wrangling
    • Liaison between departments to ensure cohesive project progress
    • Bring clarity to ambiguous project goals, steps, requirements and solution needs.
    • Alert cross-departmental team to upcoming milestone dates and potential conflicting priorities on a more granular level.
  • Product delivery
    • Delivers iterative development to client 
    • Manages feedback and questions
    • Delivers final product to client

About You

Successful candidates will have 1-3 years of project management experience with experience in tracking, planning projects, and cross-departmental diplomacy; 1+ years of content development/publishing or related industry experience is preferred. 

You’ll be a great fit on our team if you are a quick learner, agile, and good-humored. 

Required Skills:

  • Ability to influence and direct projects.
  • Demonstrated project planning ability.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Careful attention to detail.
  • Creative problem-solving ability.
  • Enjoys a fast-paced work environment.
  • Desire and ability to work and thrive in an entrepreneur environment.

Interested applicants, please email a resume to info@bookbuddymedia.com.

About Us

We are a team of publishing professionals, project managers, editors, designers, animators, sound engineers, illustrators, and writers. We offer reliable and affordable services for any publishing project or content development collaboration, with a special expertise in K-12 school publishing. We enter each project as an extension of our client’s team, helping them solve the problem of having to staff up and then down as they pursue opportunities. We are a happy team of remote creatives. We like to make each other laugh and support each other, putting a high priority on life enjoyment and balance.

Our team is diverse. We seek out and celebrate team members who bring unique perspectives to our work. This means you’ll be working alongside folks from many ethnic, religious, and racial backgrounds, as well as queer, gender non-conforming, and neurodivergent communities. We welcome everything that makes you you and maintain high standards for respect and inclusion in our work world every day.

Employment

Freelance Curriculum Layout Designer

Written by Steph Reierson

Book Buddy is looking for an experienced, detail-oriented freelance graphic designer/production artist with 20-30 hours per week of availability. This position will be responsible for design and layout for print, focusing on curriculum layout for textbooks. 

Role/Responsibilities

  • Layout and page production of print materials:
    • Curriculum textbooks and teacher guides
    • K-12 school library books
  • Typesetting for various print layouts, using and following established brand guidelines, style sheets, and design standards as established for each project
  • Analyze and input changes to existing textbook layouts, repaginate textbooks according to client specifications
  • High-res photo color-correction, editing, and cutout images
  • Creation of custom charts and graphs in Illustrator
  • Inputting editorial and client feedback into layouts
  • Preparing files for print using industry best practices
  • Careful file management and handling, working in a cloud-based environment

About You

This fully-remote freelance position is perfect for you if you have 2-3 years of experience typesetting books or other long publications into layout. You are a self-starter, comfortable working independently and interacting with other team members virtually via email, video call, or chat.

Applicants should have an exacting eye for detail, ability to source textbook content from multiple sources and accurately synthesize input into a single layout, and be comfortable occasionally working in other languages (foreign language proficiency not required, but certainly a plus!).

You’ll be a great fit on our all-remote team if you are a quick learner, agile, and good-humored. Also, you are kind and awesome (like us!).

Required Skills:

  • Fluent in InDesign, Photoshop, & Illustrator
  • Experience following InDesign templates—using style sheets, parent pages, managing long documents, using an INDB file structure
  • Organization skills: highly organized and able to manage multiple projects, meet deadlines, and communicate effectively
  • Experience preparing files for print, including knowledge of industry best practices for print production

To apply, please send a resume and PDF portfolio to info@bookbuddymedia.com.

About Us

We are a team of publishing professionals, project managers, editors, designers, animators, sound engineers, illustrators, and writers. We offer reliable and affordable services for any publishing project or content development collaboration, with a special expertise in K-12 school publishing. We enter each project as an extension of our client’s team, helping them solve the problem of having to staff up and then down as they pursue opportunities. We are a happy team of remote creatives. We like to make each other laugh and support each other, putting a high priority on life enjoyment and balance.

Our team is diverse. We seek out and celebrate team members who bring unique perspectives to our work. This means you’ll be working alongside folks from many ethnic, religious, and racial backgrounds, as well as queer, gender non-conforming, and neurodivergent communities. We welcome everything that makes you you and maintain high standards for respect and inclusion in our work world every day.

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Foreign Language Proofreader

Written by Steph Reierson

Summary

Book Buddy Media has a wide variety of opportunities for foreign language proofreaders.  We are accepting applications for all languages, including native speakers and fluent non-native speakers.  Skills should include an understanding of language appropriate to school aged children grades K-12 and knowledge of editorial best practices. Translation experience is a plus.  At this time, we are especially seeking support for Spanish, Haitian Creole, and Armenian.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

  • Ability to work in a fully-remote setting
  • At least 1-2 years’ experience proofreading
  • Experience following in-house style sheets
  • Experience editing in Microsoft Word using comments and tracked changes
  • Familiarity with Adobe Acrobat’s markup tools for PDF documents
  • Experience proofreading PDFs for typos and layout/design issues
  • Ability to juggle multiple projects and deadlines

To apply, please send a resume and a brief introduction to info@bookbuddymedia.com with the subject line “Foreign Language Proofreader”.

About Us

We are a team of publishing professionals, project managers, editors, designers, animators, sound engineers, illustrators, and writers. We offer reliable and affordable services for any publishing project or content development collaboration, with a special expertise in K-12 school publishing. We enter each project as an extension of our client’s team, helping them solve the problem of having to staff up and then down as they pursue opportunities. We are a happy team of remote creatives. We like to make each other laugh and support each other, putting a high priority on life enjoyment and balance.

Our team is diverse. We seek out and celebrate team members who bring unique perspectives to our work. This means you’ll be working alongside folks from many ethnic, religious, and racial backgrounds, as well as queer, gender non-conforming, and neurodivergent communities. We welcome everything that makes you you and maintain high standards for respect and inclusion in our work world every day.

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