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Position Overview
The Senior Associate, Reading Resources & Publishing Activation plays a critical role in stewarding Room to Read’s reading resources and activating publishing knowledge to benefit a broader ecosystem of learners, educators, schools, and communities.
In a context where Room to Read has strong internal capacity in publishing and content development, this role does not lead to publishing production. Instead, the position is expected to engage deliberately with selected stages of the publishing workflow in order to build practical, professional insights. These insights are essential to ensuring that resource activation, outreach initiatives, and professional exchanges reflect the depth, standards, and realities of publishing practice.
Responsibilities
1. Reading Resources & System Stewardship (30%)
- Coordinate the development, updating, and dissemination of annual Room to Read–approved booklists, including both Room to Read–published titles and market-sourced books.
- Ensure consistency, accuracy, and alignment across reading resource systems, including printed booklists, online catalogs, digital collections, and related platforms.
- Support the organization and refinement of digital reading collections, including Literacy Cloud, according to agreed classification logics (e.g. language, genre, themes, special collections such as DEAIB, SDGs, STEM).
- Track, manage, and consolidate inventory data in coordination with relevant teams, ensuring data quality for planning, allocation, and reporting.
- Synthesize user feedback and usage insights from digital and non-digital channels to inform continuous improvement of reading resource systems.
2. Publishing Immersion & Professional Insight Building (10%)
- Engage with selected stages of the publishing workflow to build professional understanding, including:
- participation in manuscript and illustration discussions at appropriate stages;
- attendance at professional working sessions with authors, illustrators, translators, or publishers;
- participation in trainings or professional development activities for writers and illustrators, as assigned.
- Work closely with the QRM Manager and relevant team members to:
- understand emerging challenges, trends, and lessons from publishing practice;
- translate these insights into informed activation strategies, outreach activities, and professional exchanges.
- Ensure that activation initiatives and professional engagements are grounded in authentic publishing standards and practices.
3. Reading Resources Activation & Ecosystem Engagement (40%)
- Propose ideas, coordinate design and pilot initiatives that activate reading resources and publishing knowledge through multiple channels, including:
- digital platforms (e.g. Literacy Cloud);
- school- and community-based reading initiatives;
- professional forums, workshops, and learning exchanges.
- Collaborate with schools, libraries, community organizations, and education partners to expand access to and meaningful use of reading resources.
- Proactively explore and develop collaboration opportunities with organizations producing similar or complementary reading and learning resources.
- Facilitate or coordinate professional exchange spaces that strengthen dialogue within the reading and publishing ecosystem.
4. Technical Coordination & Stakeholder Engagement (10%)
- Participate in technical discussions with education, publishing and other stakeholders related to reading resources, digital platforms, and literacy activation, as assigned by Line Manager.
- Coordinate with Instructional Design and Teachers’ Support and Program teams to align reading resources with instructional approaches and curriculum-related initiatives.
- Support donor-related engagement and learning documentation related to reading resources and activation initiatives, as required.
5. Planning, Reporting & Learning (5%)
- Track progress of assigned activities and contribute to periodic reporting related to reading resources and activation efforts.
- Analyze usage and engagement indicators across channels to assess the effectiveness of activation initiatives.
- Document learning, insights, and recommendations to strengthen Room to Read’s approach to resource stewardship and ecosystem engagement.
6. Other Responsibilities (5%)
- Perform other tasks as assigned by Line Manager.
