Senior Copy Editor (Part-Time), Sophia Learning

The Senior Copy Editor applies professional editing skills to instructional and assessment content in Sophia courses, ensuring adherence to accepted conventions of English grammar and usage and to Sophia's standards and preferred style authorities.

Requirements

• Performs copyediting tasks for the Sophia Academic Team, reviewing and editing the content that is developed for proper grammar, spelling, syntax, and layout.
• Monitors course ‘voice’ and tone to ensure consistency within and across courses.
• Ensures consistency, flow, and language accuracy of the Sophia assessment items.
• Works collaboratively with course development and maintenance teams, as well as project managers to understand needs and meet deadlines.
• Builds and helps to maintain core Sophia style guide and develops a template for course-specific style guides.
• Adheres to relevant guidelines where indicated (e.g., Sophia standards, APA guide, Media guidelines), helping to keep continuity across resources.
• Applies Sophia’s learner-centered design, APA formatting, and HTML markup. Leverages APA guidelines to the extent possible.
• Adapts content for online delivery (e.g., links, headings, lists, brevity, paragraph size, white space, and graphics).
• Aims to establish broad consistency across courses through documentation and by supporting the training of other CE staff.
• Ability to stay focused and detail-oriented in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment.

Benefits

• Well-being incentives
• Parental leave
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Tax saving accounts (FSA, HSA)
• 401(k) retirement benefit
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Tuition assistance
• Entertainment and retail discounts