Freelance Editor

3 weeks ago


Toronto, Canada LRN Corporation Full time

**About LRN**

Do you want to use your editing expertise to help people around the world do the right thing? Join us at LRN to be a part of a global company where you can make an impact.

LRN is a SaaS based e-Learning provider with a presence across US, EMEA, APAC and LatAm. More than 2,500 companies worldwide (including some of the world's most recognizable brands) utilize LRN services and leverage LRN e-learning courses to help navigate complex regulatory environments and foster ethical, responsible, and inclusive cultures. In partnership with LRN, companies translate their values into concrete corporate practices, training materials, and leadership behaviors that create a sustainable competitive advantage. By acting upon shared values, companies and their people find the means to out behave and outperform.

**Requirements**:
**About the role**:
The Editor will be responsible to create, proofread, and modify content for LRN. The individual in this role will be responsible for web content, copy edit and make sure that documents are grammatically correct, readable, and correspond with the brand image and target audience of the company and partners.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Copy edit courses to eliminate spelling and grammatical errors, consistency issues, lapses in style, and typos.
- Proofread at critical stages to ensure accuracy is maintained
- Ensure content conforms to US English language standards
- Ensure content meets LRN and/or its partners' requirements and preferences for style, tone, reading level, and audience Ensure proper page layouts with regard to text and image formatting
- Perform comprehensive proofread on course audio script and QA audio version
- Perform QA checks on video as it relates to audio and text and watch for issues with other eLearning media
- Maintain centralized project documentation
- Assign copy editing and proofreading to freelance editors as needed to maintain schedules Secondary Responsibilities
- Expand knowledge to develop thorough understanding of the editing process in the content domain as well as LRN's complete content development process. Communication
- Maintain an open and clear communication channel with the Planning team, Project Managers, and the rest of the project team throughout the Content Development of the course
- Communicate and traffic information to freelance editors on projects you assign them; field their questions; ensure on-time delivery of work Monitoring & Reporting
- Ensure standards for quality and consistency are met successfully at the end of each course review
- Provide status reports as requested by planning, project managers, or content leaders
- Maintain and advance JIRA tickets as needed Business Contribution
- Ensure all material produced by LRN is of the highest quality and consistency
- Maintain on-time delivery
- Assist in defining, developing, and refining internal content review processes and practices, including the LRN style manual

**You should have/be**:

- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
- Minimum 3 years of experience
- Competency with Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition (17th just released in 2017), and Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition
- Should be a perfectionist, with a keen eye for detail and understanding of linguistic trends and phrasing
- Superb planning and organizational skills
- Enthusiastic and proactive Interest in eLearning, adult education, and upgrading skills constantly

**Benefits**
- Competitive hourly rates

LRN is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.


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