Project Lead

• Collaborates closely with creative and content leads, writers, and designers to ensure high-quality digital, video, and print advertising that supports marketing objectives.
• Proofreads marketing and advertising materials to ensure the quality of written content. Identifies and corrects errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style, as well as verifies that stakeholder-requested changes have been completed accurately.
• Coordinates our robust four-round proofing process (two rounds of internal review + two rounds of stakeholder review).
• Sends proofs to stakeholders for review and approval.
• Facilitates simple stakeholder-requested changes and coordinates with creative and content leads on more complex changes.
• Monitors the statuses of proofs and communicates what actions are ready to be taken by the creative team.
• Follows up with stakeholders on proofs to ensure projects stay on track.
• Completes quality work on time and with attention to detail.
• Serves as the point of contact for onboarding new people into the creative team and coaches existing team members on quality standards.
• Draft elements of project review reports and presentations to support delivery of the review process.
• Carry out delegated activities to support the production of workstream and project plans that identify and organize all the activities needed to deliver project objectives and that comply with the organization's project management framework.
• Organize and prepare complex documents using a variety of applications for technology devices, such as standard office software. Also responsible for gathering and summarizing data for special reports.
• Identify, elicit, and document user/project requirements, using appropriate modeling technique, if required.
• Analyze requirements and validate with original users, eliminating confusion.
• Outline verification criteria to ensure requirements are met.
• Maintain documentation and traceability throughout project.
• Deliver stakeholder engagement activities to support the development of effective working relationships for projects and to identify and respond to stakeholder needs and concerns.
• Contribute to the management of risks and issues by maintaining and distributing project and program risk registers and issue logs.
• Contribute to reviewing existing operations in own area of work, and assist in identifying improvements.
• Conduct research, workshops, and other activities to support the specification and agreement of project deliverables.
• Draft elements of product documentation and user training to support handover to business as usual. Contribute to post-project reviews and identification of lessons learned.

• 4+ years of copyediting or proofreading experience in marketing or advertising.
• Speak the language of the various applications of production, including print and digital advertising, marketing, photography, illustration, and video production.
• Solid communication skills. You’ll need to coordinate with teammates and stakeholders to resolve impediments and seek out missing information.
• Multitask. You’ll need to actively manage and execute multiple projects simultaneously. We use project management software, but there’s no substitute for personal responsibility.
• Be a quick learner. Get up to speed quickly on the industry, our solutions and products, and various software tools for online project management, team communication, etc.
• Work well as part of a team yet remain focused on individual responsibilities.

• Attention to detail, including comparing proof versions to ensure changes have been made accurately.
• Ability to stay organized and focused on deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Be a self-starter who can take direction and stay motivated to execute under minimal supervision.
• Make sound decisions based on a variety of data points.
• Solid communication skills with the ability to coordinate with teammates and stakeholders to resolve impediments and seek out missing information.
• Expertise in Microsoft Word. Be familiar with Adobe InDesign and other creative and business software.
• Speak the language of the various applications of production, including print and digital advertising, marketing, photography, illustration, and video production.
• Agency experience
• Ag background
• Experience with Agile methodology
• Experience with Workfront project management system
• Negotiation, Prioritizing, Data Collection and Analysis
• Project Communications Management, Project Management, Project Risk and Issue Management, Verbal Communication, Project Change Management, Project Cost and Budget Management, Project Estimating, Project Integration Management, Project Quality Management, Project Resource Planning and Control, Project Schedule Management, Project Scope Management Project Tracking and Reporting,
• Requirements Elicitation and Facilitation, Requirements Traceability and Management
• Validate Requirements, Verify Requirements, Workflow Management

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