Content Development Project Manager

Summary

Join BenchPrep as a Contract Content Development Project Manager for a 5-month remote contract (January-May 2025), working 10 hours per week. You will oversee the creation and delivery of content for a diagnostic assessment learning product, partnering with SMEs, editors, vendors, and stakeholders. Responsibilities include managing project schedules, leading platform trainings, coordinating content flow, recruiting external resources, tracking budgets, running stakeholder check-ins, identifying process efficiencies, and documenting project artifacts. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of project management experience in content development, strong client-facing skills, and proficiency in project management tools. This role is crucial for establishing a strong customer relationship and ensuring on-time, on-budget project delivery.

Requirements

• 5+ years project management experience in content development projects managing SMEs/authors, editors, instructional designers, vendors, etc. from project start through completion
• Direct and heavy client-facing experience,working with high level project stakeholders
• Highly organized, process-driven and analytical in nature with outstanding project management skills
• Excels in delivering multiple concurrent projects, with excellent communication, and with timely, quality, and efficient results to multiple project stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the Master Content and Product Schedules (build the schedule, edit and adjust it weekly, track all deliverables, contributors, dependencies, and risks; ensure team-wide visibility)
• Lead platform/CMS trainings for project contributors and assist with troubleshooting
• Coordinate the flow of content from SMEs to Partner to Vendors, etc. You will touch every piece of content, talk (in some capacity) with every SME and vendor
• Identify and recruit/evaluate external project resources (SMEs, copyeditor, vendors etc) as needed
• Track SME and vendor budget throughout product development
• Run recurring check-ins for core stakeholders with schedule updates, concerns, etc
• Continually identify, present and implement opportunities for project scalability and process efficiencies via collaboration with other rep team members
• Empower, motivate, and support team members across multiple internal teams to do their best work in the creation and delivery of impactful, well designed content
• Document all project artifacts and ensure that they are completed, organized, and stored appropriately

Preferred Qualifications

• LMS/CMS experience
• Proficiency using G-suite, Confluence, Jira, and Smartsheets
• CAPM, PMP Certifications

Benefits

Remote work