Manager & Assistant Creative Director: Phase 2 (Book Writing and Editing)

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Antarctic Institute of Canada
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Preferred learners
  • Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  • Academic experience
Categories
Communications Humanities Media Education
Skills
job descriptions conflict resolution writing editing governance
Project scope
What is the main goal for this project?

Positions available: 1

We would like to work with a student in order to provide support to the Executive Creative Director throughout the different phases of the publishing season. The tasks and responsibilities will be broken into different projects, each lasting for 8 weeks of part-time work.

For Phase 2, the project that the student will be focused on will be to support students who are researching, writing, and editing books.

With guidance from the Executive Creative Director, the manager and assistant creative director will work in a highly flexible and collaborative role to fortify, support, and lead student efforts to produce written and recorded works of high quality and integrity. Project tasks will include:

  • Developing long-term plans and logistical strategies for implementing program procedures, policy, and approaches.
  • Develop roles, terms of employment, and draft job-descriptions prior to student hiring.
  • Hiring, interviewing, and onboarding students through interviews, dedicated trainings, and tutorials.
  • Creation and assignment of novel book outlines, article topics, and audiobook ideas.
  • Placing students into appropriate streams and/or cohorts to match their aptitudes and interests with projects they are likely to succeed in.
  • Mentor and support students requiring project guidance, conflict resolution, or adaptations to their terms of employment.
  • Monitor students and projects to ensure constancy in quality and productivity.
  • Liaise regularly with Executive Creative Director, Riipen representatives, and all other relevant personnel for purposes of program governance/administration.
About the company

The Antarctic Institute of Canada is a non-profit Canadian charity organization founded by former Antarctic researcher Austin Mardon in 1985. Its original aim was to lobby for the federal government of Canada to increase the extent of Canadian research in the Antarctic. However, AIC slowly diversified and initiated programs for students to publish Antarctic research in newspapers and academic journals. These days, the AIC supports academic writing, research, and multimedia in many fields, expanding far beyond the organization’s original focus on Antarctica.