Are you thinking about making a change in your career? If you’re interested in books, literacy and education, you might be a great fit for Scholastic! As always, you can check our careers site and our LinkedIn Career page for postings, but as part of our “Career Corner” series, we like to do a monthly spotlight on a few special opportunities that are available right now. See below for open positions at Scholastic...we've got some good ones for December!
December's featured jobs (click to jump):
- Assistant Digital Producer
- Distribution Center Supervisor
- Art Director/UX Designer
- Information Security Architect, Information Technology
Assistant Digital Producer (Location: New York, NY)
Scholastic Classroom Magazines is looking for a web producer to support project management and asset creation for digital products. As we expand, renovate, and develop fantastic new websites and digital products for millions of students across the country, these positions will be instrumental in helping ensure each project's success.
Our producers serve as a bridge between technical and creative groups, working very closely with production, development, UX, design, and editorial to create robust digital packages that support our core print products—23 educational magazines, from pre-K to high school.
Responsibilities Include:
- Oversee biweekly production updates for magazine websites, shepherding work from production through to final QA
- Gather requirements for requests and new builds of any size, documenting work into user stories
- Plan design and development work around print production schedules and digital workflows
- Help editors think digitally with analytics and cross-product perspective
- Work with digital and print teams to manage and create assets for regular online updates (audio, metadata, breaking news)
To view the full job listing, including additional key responsibilities and desired qualifications, please click here.
Distribution Center Supervisor (Location: Baton Rouge, LA)
Are you looking to make lifelong memories and help kids achieve their literacy goals? If so, you may be the right fit for our Operations team as a Distribution Center Supervisor. You will lead a team of employees that is responsible for the production and support of Scholastic Book Fairs.
Responsibilities and Qualifications Include:
- Assist in recruiting and hiring warehouse staff
- Supervise, develop, and train all warehouse personnel, and maintain associate morale and motivation for maximum level of productivity and associate retention
- In conjunction with the Branch Manager, conduct all warehouse performance appraisals and set performance goals
- Conduct monthly safety meetings
- A minimum of three (3) years supervisory experience within a Warehouse Management and Logistics environment required. WMS experience preferred.
To view the full job listing, including additional key responsibilities and desired qualifications, please click here.
Art Director/UX Designer (Location: New York, NY)
The Art Director/UX Designer will work with product team to conceptualize, design, and maintain product interfaces, and will be responsible for Photoshop mockups of screens and/or components across a portfolio of 23 brands.
Responsibilities Include:
- Design a high-quality, intuitive user experience
- Create visual documentation that translates easily into development
- Create wireframes and userflows following UX best practices
- Translate analytics and market research into design solutions
- Manage and support the creation of design assets for site development
- Collaborate with the Product and Editorial team to establish visual design systems
To view the full job listing, including additional key responsibilities and desired qualifications, please click here.
Information Security Architect, Information Technology (Location: New York, NY)
The Information Security Architect is responsible for establishing and maintaining portions of the Scholastic Technology Service (STS) Security Program, which is designed to ensure that the company’s technology systems and information assets are adequately protected.
The Security Architect:
- Ensures that the various technical, process and people elements of Scholastic's security program result in a security posture consistent with policy, regulatory, and customer expectations and requirements.
- Is not only expert in the diversity of current risks and threats and means of addressing them, but also brings a broad technology background, including development and technology operations.
- Works with senior executives, line-of-business managers and other key decision makers to determine acceptable levels of residual risk for the company as a whole and for various internal departments and organizations.
Responsibilities Include:
- Ensure that the customer and market facing security demands and expectations are well-known, and that the related security designs meet those demands
- Work directly with business units and other internal departments and organizations to facilitate IS risk analysis and risk management processes, identify acceptable levels of residual risk, establish roles and responsibilities related to information classification and protection, and to ensure that other managers are taking effective remediation steps
- Review risk assessments, analyze the effectiveness of Scholastic’s IS control activities and report on them, with actionable recommendations to STS Management
- Be the central point of design and review and establish standards for the technical aspects of security to ensure that security components integrate into a comprehensive and effective security posture
- Work closely with the enterprise architecture function to ensure that security needs and constructs are included in all aspects of enterprise technology Serve as reviewer and approver of all requested exceptions to technical standards as related to security
To view the full job listing, including additional key responsibilities and desired qualifications, please click here.
