Careers

Brookes Publishing is looking for an Associate Editor to join our onsite team. The successful candidate will be a resourceful self-starter who enjoys an intellectual challenge.

 Responsibilities and Duties

Associate Editor
The Associate Editor position involves engagement with a range of responsibilities to foster product development and new business opportunities. Scope of work will include working directly with an Executive Vice President to:
• Identify and cultivate projects for development into new products and new revenue streams
• Facilitate work with author-collaborators to submit grant applications for federal funding of research projects and subsequent grant project management
• Draft and/or respond to RFPs or other bids to solicit or to engage third-party partners on new projects
• Review and draft publishing contracts and other business-related legal documents relating to the company’s intellectual property
• Draft correspondence with authors, grant team members, and vendors
• Draft internal and external presentations
• Participate in editorial review, including vetting submissions, soliciting peer reviewers, and some developmental editing
• Complete topical research on new areas of business; study policy and technology developments in areas of interest to the company
• Provide planning support for occasional scholarly events hosted by the company
• Assist in budget development and tracking
• Handle general administrative needs of the Executive Vice President

Qualifications and Skills

This position requires:
• At least a bachelor’s degree plus a minimum of 2 years’ relevant work experience and/or mix of experience and education (knowledge of early childhood, education, and/or elder care markets is a plus)
• Demonstrated proficiency in developmental editing and project analysis
• Excellent communication, editing, and writing skills
• Excellent research, data analysis, and multi-project management skills
• Intermediate proficiency in computer operation and Microsoft Office Suite programs; some graphics experience useful but not required
• Professional demeanor and cooperative approach to work in an office environment

Brookes Publishing is looking for an Email Marketing Specialist to join our team.

 Responsibilities and Duties

Reporting to the Web & Interactive Marketing Manager, the successful Email Marketing Specialist will:

• Design and flawlessly execute email campaigns in collaboration with marketing managers
• Manage and support all aspects of campaign execution including customer segmentation, list selection, automations, testing protocol, and technical execution
• Maintain and drive timely execution of the email calendar, including nurture, trigger, stage, and retargeting campaigns within the marketing automation platform
• Manage email lists by maintaining clear customer segments, a master suppression list, and practicing good list hygiene
• Collaborate with marketing managers to develop high-performing creative assets
• Write and assign content for customer retention and lead generation emails
• Design, implement, and analyze testing strategies for improving email results.
• Analyze and report on campaign performance, including insights and recommendations for improving results.
• Ensure emails follow industry policies and best practices, including compliance with CAN-SPAM, CASL and GDPR.
• Contribute to building our email strategy and email asset design for large marketing campaigns.
• Maintain Brookes’s voice and brand in all customer and prospect communication.
• Continuously strive to be the subject matter expert on email marketing best practices

Qualifications and Skills

This position requires:

• Bachelor’s degree with concentration in marketing and/or communication
• 2 to 5 years of creating and executing email marketing campaigns required
• Experience with email automation, HTML, and email marketing software platforms is a must for this role.
• Solid ability to use HTML and CSS to build emails
• Experience managing and growing list size of 500K+ emails
• Experience creating email templates quickly and efficiently
• Demonstrable experience analyzing campaigns, and demonstrable knowledge of setting up A/B testing
• Some experience with Photoshop and the Adobe Creative Suite, and Salesforce Marketing Cloud and/or Exact Target a plus
• Must have proven experience with strategic thinking, analytical, data interpretation, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent organizational skills
• Professional demeanor and cooperative approach to work in office environment

Brookes Publishing is looking for a Licensing Specialist to join our team.

 Responsibilities and Duties

Reporting to the Associate Director, Rights & Intellectual Property, the Licensing Specialist will:
• Pursue and close the profitable licensing of and sales of rights to Company’s intellectual property
• Support work of cross-divisional teams to identify and pursue key licensing and rights opportunities and to assess the financial viability of agreements
• Support negotiations; finalize licensing, translation rights, and other rights agreements with business partners
• Draft business agreements, contracts, memoranda, and other legal documents regarding the subsidiary rights licensing of intellectual property to third-party entities
• As assigned, draft nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) to pursue new business development
• Maintain collaborative relationships and monitor performance by licensees to ensure compliance with contractual requirements
• Complete all tasks and agreements related to the termination or renewal of licensing agreements
• Perform legal and/or factual research and help in investigations related to the company’s intellectual property, as assigned
• Ensure various databases, schedules, logs, records, forms, and files are complete, up to date, and accurate

Qualifications and Skills

This position requires:
• Bachelor’s degree
• 2-3 years of experience in publishing, preferably licensing & rights experience
• Familiarity with intellectual property law (U.S., and international as needed) and changing interpretations
• Excellent negotiation and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in building and maintaining author, customer, and/or vendor relationships
• Excellent critical-thinking, organizational, and process-building skills
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Intermediate proficiency in computer operation and Microsoft Office Suite programs
• Professional demeanor and cooperative approach to work in office environment

Brookes Publishing is looking for a Web Assistant to join our team.

 Responsibilities and Duties

Reporting to the Web & Interactive Marketing Manager, the Web Assistant’s responsibilities will include:

• Maintaining multiple corporate and product websites, including the generation and maintenance of landing pages, content pages, and page attributes
• Responding to and resolving web performance issues
• Creating and managing cross-platform, cross-browser compatible user interfaces
• Analyzing and compiling web reports and data
• Maintaining backend e-commerce system, web product database, electronic product delivery, and other databases
• Adhering to corporate and product-specific brand standards and design templates across all online platforms

Qualifications and Skills

This position requires:
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Experience or any equivalent combination of experience and training which provides the knowledge and abilities necessary to manage listed responsibilities
• Demonstrated knowledge of the principles, methods, and procedures for web design, modeling, and platforms
• Demonstrated proficiency in multi-project management
• Proficiency in hand coding and troubleshooting HTML, XHTML, and CSS
• Proficiency in using; WordPress (required) AbleCommerce, and other web-authoring software
• Proficiency in using programming on PHP and ASP.NET platforms; knowledge of XML and APIs
• Knowledge of e-commerce systems and secure transactions
• Knowledge of interactive marketing campaign lifecycles
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Experience with SalesForce a plus.
• Knowledge of or familiarity with K-12 and higher education marketplaces is a plus, but not required