Director Of Publishing
Center for Responsive Schools is a K-12 publisher.
Reporting to the President and CEO, the Director of Publishing is responsible for providing leadership for CRS's Publishing House and ensuring fidelity to the House and Program Style Guides. This position oversees and ensures editorial excellence, brand and imprint integrity, editorial direction, and adherence to policies for the Publishing House, in service of the mission and to ensure the House is viewed as a highly regarded frontrunner in educational publishing.
The Director of Publishing is responsible for designing, overseeing, and managing an annual book publishing pipeline that has an adequate number of high-quality manuscripts in the production pipeline so as to achieve the House's annual front list release goals.
CRS' Publishing House produces and supports the production, editorial, design, and publishing needs of every unit at CRS through a wide array of print and digital content, including, but not limited to, videography, graphic design, illustration, web content, and photography.
Major responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Author and content acquisition
- Fiscally and legally sound publishing house
- Editorial excellence
- Publishing pipeline and project management
- Editorial project management
- Collaborates on and supports production of sales and marketing collateral
- Supports CRS' communication and social media
Other responsibilities include:
- Ability to travel may be required, but not frequently.
- May be required to represent CRS at conferences and other public arenas in a positive and professional manner.
- Serves on CRS's leadership team, playing a key role in setting and executing on organizational strategy.
- Regular and reliable attendance
- Disposition is consistently professional, cooperative, and collegial as evidenced by workplace maturity, composure, perspective, transparency, reliability, integrity, and trustworthiness.
- Other duties as assigned by supervisor.
Supervisory responsibilities include:
- All Publishing House staff
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree (Master's preferred) in English, communications, journalism, publications, or related field
- 6+ years of progressively responsible and related work that clearly prepares the candidate to lead a small independent publishing house.
- 2+ years in an editorial supervisory position.
- The ability to operate on both a tactical and a strategic level, overseeing a highly effective editorial and publishing team while also collaborating with division leaders to produce new books.
- Exceptional project management expertise, particularly the ability to oversee multiple, complex projects simultaneously in a deadline-driven environment.
- Deep publications expertise, including budgeting, printing, editorial, and production management, and related technologies.
- Experience in using the Chicago Manual of Style and experience implementing the House Style Guide, preferred.
- Experienced in or can quickly learn the fundamentals of Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, InCopy, and other Creative Suite products.
- Strong editing and writing skills. Has knowledge and experience with and can support staff in a range of editing, including proofreading, copyediting, line editing, and developmental editing.
- Experienced with book development, production, and project management.
- Can communicate with respect and authority for a range of purposes, including but not limited to promoting a healthy organizational culture, providing direct feedback, and sharing decisions
- Prior experience working with vendors and contractors for writing, illustration, photography, and other related supplies and services.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, social media, and Google productivity software
- Familiar with or able to quickly learn Monday, Salesforce, HubSpot, and other CRM software
- Highly accountable for performance; goal oriented and flexible
- Caring for and commitment to the vision, mission, and welfare of CRS