Producer

Content Producer (UK Higher Ed)

Job Description Summary

The Content Producer serves as the project lead through all areas of a project lifecycle. This role is responsible for the execution and delivery of program components across multiple platforms including Digital Courseware, learning apps and tools, printed books and supporting supplements. With an emphasis on quality, this role is focused on managing projects from concept to completion, setting and maintaining budgets and schedules, and ensuring alignment with business goals.

The Content Producer is also responsible for stakeholder communication, procurement, managing project scope, and quality assurance of all project deliverables.

Job Duties
- Planning: collaborates with team to create program plan and budget, with particular attention to product delivery strategy, resource and budget needs, and schedule requirements.
- Schedule: establishes detailed integrated schedule for all program components; monitors and controls schedule dependencies.
- Resources: identifies and secures resources where necessary for program. Guides and monitors work from all resources to achieve content, schedule, and budget requirements.
- Budget: responsible for budget performance of the program, communicates budgets to all parties, maintains overview of budget performance against approved plan.
- Quality: communicates and implements quality control plan including triage and remediation of all identified content, functional and accessibility issues
- Communication: plans, organizes, and leads regular meetings of the program team to evaluate status, problem-solve, and mitigate risks.
- Problem-solving: collaborates with decision makers and stakeholders to resolve conflicts between plan and execution of various aspects of program plan.
- Product build: manages production build of all components of a program, digital and print from conception to delivery
- Standards: ensures that all products meet Pearson standards for Accessibility, DE&I, and Editorial Policy, plus additional platform requirements.

**Skills**:

- Strong decision making and problem-solving skills. Makes suggestions and provides guidance for innovative changes or improvements to the program, content planning/development and project delivery methods. Escalates critical issues to appropriate constituents and/or direct manager.
- Strong leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to guide teams toward goal achievement.
- Strong organizational skills, with the ability to handle multiple complex programs, with interrelated asset and timing dependencies.
- Provides strong, timely, and appropriate written and verbal communication to stakeholders.
- Ability to balance thinking with action; able to redefine problems when working in ambiguity. Takes initiative and leads change.
- Flexible and adaptable in navigating roadblocks and creating innovative solutions.
- Identifies areas of improvement, plans a strategy, and acts independently to create or promote improvement.
- Exhibits curiosity and learning agility to discover and understand market and customer requirements.
- Ability to collaborate with key stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams.
- Behaves ethically and with integrity.
- Strong financial management skills and decision making.
- Ability to handle a high volume of work in a short period of time, handle multiple priorities simultaneously and operate in a demanding work environment.
- Basic knowledge of HTML/Javascript/CSS is preferred.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required.
- Minimum of 4-6 years job experience required, preferably editorial, digital strategy, and end-to
- end project management.
- Digital content/product management experience preferred.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, SmartSheet, Microsoft Project, or other project management tools.
- PMP Certification an asset.

**What to expect from Pearson**

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