[Hiring] Writing Editor @EdReports

Role Description

EdReports seeks an experienced Writing Editor to provide approximately 25 hours of substantive and technical editorial support for the Multilingual Learner (MLL) Early Math tools and supporting resources. The Writing Editor will strengthen the clarity, organization, readability, flow, precision, consistency, and accessibility of these materials while preserving their technical meaning and the integrity of the underlying evidence, criteria, and intended interpretations.

This engagement requires more than proofreading or copyediting. The contractor must exercise editorial judgment about structure, language, audience, consistency, and meaning while recognizing when a proposed revision requires consultation with an EdReports content or subject-matter expert.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated professional experience editing complex educational, technical, research-based, instructional, or comparable content.
• Demonstrated experience with both substantive/developmental editing and copyediting.
• Strong technical editing skills, including the ability to improve organization, clarity, readability, and language while preserving accuracy, nuance, and intended meaning.
• Exceptional command of English grammar, syntax, punctuation, usage, mechanics, and editorial conventions.
• Demonstrated ability to identify ambiguity, inconsistencies, terminology conflicts, unsupported wording, and subtle differences in meaning within complex written materials.
• Ability to translate or edit complex ideas into clear, precise, reader-centered language without oversimplifying the content.
• Experience applying style guides and maintaining consistent editorial conventions across related materials.
• Experience creating or maintaining editorial style sheets, terminology guides, decision logs, or similar tools.
• Ability to distinguish between editorial issues and substantive content questions requiring review by a subject-matter expert.
• Experience collaborating effectively with authors, researchers, curriculum specialists, content experts, or other subject-matter experts.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to independently manage work, communicate questions or risks promptly, incorporate feedback, and meet agreed-upon deadlines.
• Understanding of K–12 education and educator audiences through professional editing, curriculum development, instructional materials, education research, teaching, or comparable experience.
• 5+ years of professional writing and/or editing experience, including demonstrated experience substantively editing complex, technical, research-based, educational, or similarly specialized content.
• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of relevant education, training, and professional experience.

Requirements

• Professional editing experience with K–12 instructional materials, curriculum, assessments, educator-facing guidance, education research, or instructional-materials reviews.
• Background or demonstrated subject-matter knowledge in mathematics education, particularly early mathematics or elementary mathematics.
• Background or demonstrated subject-matter knowledge in multilingual learner education, English learner education, language development, or linguistically responsive instruction.
• Experience editing materials that integrate education research, evidence statements, rubrics, criteria, indicators, or scoring guidance.
• Experience editing materials intended for multiple education audiences, such as teachers, instructional leaders, district leaders, reviewers, researchers, or curriculum decision-makers.
• Familiarity with plain-language, readability, inclusive-language, and accessibility principles as applied to educational or technical content.
• Experience working within collaborative document-development environments and version-controlled editorial workflows.

Benefits

• This contract is expected to require up to 25 hours of work and will be compensated at $100 per hour, for a maximum contract amount of $2,500.
• The contractor may not exceed 25 hours without prior written approval from EdReports.
• The contract period is approximately October 2026 through November 2026.

Successful Completion

• Completed the agreed-upon priority work within the 25-hour level of effort.
• Improved the clarity, organization, precision, readability, and consistency of the materials addressed.
• Preserved the technical meaning and intent of the underlying content.
• Appropriately identified issues requiring subject-matter expert decisions.
• Consistently applied agreed-upon editorial decisions.
• Provided EdReports with edited materials and documentation sufficient to support any remaining or future revisions.