Manager - Content and Curriculum

As a Manager - Content and Curriculum for the English Editor role within the Content and Curriculum department, your primary objective is to enhance the quality of content by establishing and upholding elevated editorial standards. This entails revising and enhancing editorial guidelines, implementing rigorous editing procedures, and ensuring that all content maintains the highest levels of accuracy, clarity, and relevance. Additionally, you will be responsible for mentoring a team of editors, developing a process-driven team for editing and vetting content, and significantly enhancing the speed of content creation. Your key responsibilities will include editing, proofreading, and reviewing English content while preserving meaning and context with the end user in mind. You will need to review and edit written content for grammar accuracy, proper sentence structure, factual correctness, and overall readability. Collaborating closely with content creators and writers, you will ensure that the formatting of documents, presentations, and spreadsheets adheres to the organization's established style guidelines. Furthermore, you will need to refine content while maintaining a consistent tone, style, and language to align with the content writers" style, and rewrite content if necessary to effectively communicate the intended message to the reader. It will be essential for you to collaborate and communicate with multiple teams to keep them informed and involved in any content changes during its development phase. Moreover, you will be tasked with mentoring and building a competent team of editors who can proofread documents effectively without compromising their essence. Being updated with trends in content and styles reflected on various popular social media channels is crucial for this role. Additionally, you should be willing to collaborate with a creative team comprising content writers, graphic designers, and other professionals. The job challenges you will face include editing and reviewing documents of various styles and formats simultaneously, adhering to timelines in a fast-paced environment while meeting the needs of multiple teams, and consistently reflecting the organization's brand voice across different writing styles. To excel in this position, you should possess excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, a mastery of spelling, grammar, and punctuation, and the ability to provide constructive feedback. Adherence to the organization's style guide, proficient research skills, and basic knowledge of legal publishing issues such as libel and plagiarism are essential. Familiarity with UK English spelling and punctuation conventions is necessary, along with the ability to stay detail-oriented and focused while handling large amounts of text. The ideal candidate for this role should hold a post-graduate degree in English, Journalism, or Mass Media, and demonstrate strong computer processing skills, particularly in G-Suite, Microsoft Office, Grammarly, and AI. A minimum of 5 to 7 years of experience in editing, proofreading, reviewing, and research within the domain is required, with prior experience in a publishing house or journalism being advantageous. Desirable attributes include previous NGO work experience (although not compulsory), good listening and interpersonal skills, commitment to deadlines, meticulousness, passion, a keen eye for detail, and adherence to processes. Experience in writing content across various domains will be beneficial. This managerial position is based in Mumbai, offering a gross monthly salary ranging from Rs. 70,000 to Rs. 90,000, along with Travel Allowance, Therapeutic Allowance, and Training Allowance based on your work experience and performance in the interview.,