Associate Project Manager, Corporate Strategy

NOTE: This role is based in New York City and encourages a minimum of two days per week in the SoHo office. Some roles or teams may require additional in-office attendance if the essential functions of the role require it.

THE OPPORTUNITY

The Associate Project Manager, Corporate Strategy plays a key role in supporting coordination, execution, and operational clarity across Scholastic’s enterprise 360º intellectual property (IP) portfolio and related initiatives. This role supports Corporate Strategy’s objective to strengthen alignment and generate long term IP value across the Children’s Book Group (CBG), Scholastic Entertainment Inc. (SEI), 9 Story, and other cross company partners.

The ideal candidate is a highly organized, proactive self starter with project management skills, comfort operating in fast-pace creative environments, and Airtable experience to build and run tools that improve visibility, follow through, and decision making.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assist to anag and coordinate timelines, dependencies, deliverables, and cross divisional workflows across 360º IP initiatives, ensuring consistent follow through and momentum across multiple active projects.

• Support the buildout, implementation, and daily management of Airtable as the system of record for SEI, 9 Story, and relevant cross functional stakeholders, including workflows, tracking, dashboards, reporting, and data integrity.

• Prepare agendas and materials for meetings, capture notes and decisions, and track action items through completion, escalating risks and blockers as needed.

• Maintain submission trackers and dashboards for IP evaluations, priorities, and progress, ensuring information is current, accessible, and usable for leadership and working teams.

• Research trends and gather external market intelligence (buyer mandates, whitespace, emerging trends) and share insights with internal stakeholders. 

• Develop executive presentations, briefs, and communications that synthesize complex information into clear narratives that support informed decision making.

• Support creative media development on an ad hoc basis by contributing to materials, research, and internal processes that advance priority IP within the broader Scholastic ecosystem.

About Scholastic

For more than 100 years, Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) has been meeting children where they are – at school, at home and in their communities – by creating quality content and experiences, all beginning with literacy. Scholastic delivers stories, characters, and learning moments that empower all kids to become lifelong readers and learners through bestselling children’s books, literacy- and knowledge-building resources for schools including classroom magazines, and award-winning, entertaining children's media. As the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books through school-based book clubs and book fairs, classroom libraries, school and public libraries, retail, and online, and with a global reach into more than 135 countries, Scholastic encourages the personal and intellectual growth of all children, while nurturing a lifelong relationship with reading, themselves, and the world around them. Learn more at www.scholastic.com.

Some benefits that we offer:

• Full suite of health and wellness benefits (including a $0 deductible Medical Plan)

• Retirement Savings Plan 401(k) with options for both Roth and Traditional Contributions

• Tuition-Free programs for undergraduate and graduate degrees

• Generous Parental Leave Program

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with opportunity for discounted stock at a 15% discount

Thank you for your consideration in choosing Scholastic.

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HOW YOU CAN FIT (Qualifications)

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Airtable capability, including base architecture, linked records, views, interfaces, dashboards, permissions, forms, and automation driven workflows.

• Knowledge of project management and operating discipline, able to manage multiple workstreams, deadlines, and stakeholders with high attention to detail.

• Highly proactive and self directed, able to identify needs, takes initiative, and drive tasks to completion.

• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex inputs into concise, executive ready materials.

• Strong judgment and comfort operating across creative and corporate contexts, including sensitivity to stakeholders and confidentiality.

• Ability to establish repeatable processes, improve visibility, and create structure without slowing teams down.

• Ability to support and, over time, help facilitate kid feedback sessions (e.g., focus groups or moderated activities), with guidance from the Director, Curriculum and Research.

• Proficiency in PowerPoint, Microsoft Office, and collaboration tools (Teams, SharePoint or similar).

Experience:

• 1 to 3 years of experience in project management, strategic operations, or similar roles, ideally within media, entertainment, publishing, digital content, or a creative organization.

• Demonstrated experience building and managing Airtable systems for cross functional teams.

• Experience preparing materials for presentations, and cross functional coordination.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree required

Scholastic is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is clear: there shall be no discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, or status as a disabled veteran or Vietnam veteran. Those factors shall not influence the determination of qualifications for a job or other opportunity within the company. Further, all personnel actions (such as compensation, tuition aid, benefits, transfers, promotions, and dismissals, company-sponsored training, social and recreational programs) shall be administered without discrimination.

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