Associate Editor, High School & History

​W. W. Norton & Company is seeking an Associate Editor to join its educational publishing group. The Associate Editor will be a key member of the High School Group, a highly collaborative editorial, sales, and marketing team that publishes textbooks and learning tools for secondary schools. The Associate Editor will take the lead on market research, project management, and editorial execution to adapt several college textbooks per year for the high school market. The Associate Editor will also lend editorial and project management support to select history titles. This position will report to the Director of the High School Group and the Editor in Chief, Social Sciences.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Developing a deeper understanding of the market for high school and college course materials and the diverse needs of instructors and students throughout the country.
• Collaborating with discipline editors, media editors, editorial assistants, project editors, and others to manage high school adaptations of college texts and select history projects in all stages of editorial development and production.
• Helping to plan, develop, and implement pedagogically-useful and innovative content for teaching, learning, and assessment.
• Working with budgets and development timelines to correspond with editorial, sales, and production schedules and the needs of relevant markets.
• Developing a familiarity with the conventions of high school publishing across language arts, social studies, and science titles.
• Recruiting, signing, training, and communicating with contributing authors and subject matter experts for a wide variety of editorial projects.
• Soliciting feedback from the market through surveys, reviews, and interviews and incorporating this feedback into current and future editorial projects.
• Effectively communicating ideas to colleagues, including the advertising and marketing departments.
• Attend one or more academic conferences each year.

Please note- this job description is not designed to cover all activities required of the employee.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Employment eligibility to work with W.W. Norton & Company in the US is required
• Must be able to work full business hours from our New York office
• At least two years prior experience in educational publishing, ideally with an editorial role.
• Strong candidates for this position will be detail-oriented and self-motivated, with experience managing projects independently.
• A keen interest in the teaching and learning needs of high school and college instructors and students.
• Internal and external communication is a frequent requirement in this role, so candidates should be effective oral and written communicators.
• Candidates should demonstrate a "can-do" attitude and be proactive and flexible in a rapidly changing environment.

Currently available benefits:

• Annual compensation for this position is $52,000-$60,000. All salaries and salary ranges posted by Norton may vary depending on experience, skills, location and like considerations. Generous paid time off, paid holidays, and summer Friday afternoons beginning in July
• Generous health benefits, including PPO and EPO medical insurance options, vision
• insurance, dental insurance, flexible spending accounts for healthcare, dependent care
• and commuter, gym membership reimbursement, and more. Coverage for spouses,
• domestic partners, and dependent children is available.
• Profit-Sharing and 401(k) benefit plan with discretionary contribution matching by
• employer
• Disability and life insurances
• FMLA, parental and other leave
• Employee Assistance Program (for mental health, financial planning, and other needs)
• Company-provided laptop
• Employee discounts on Norton books
• Limited matching of employee donations to select non-profit organizations

All policies and benefits described are subject to change at any time.