*This position is onsite at our New Rochelle, NY office.
Position Purpose:
Benchmark Education Company is seeking a detail-oriented Copy Editor to join our marketing team. In this role, you'll ensure that all promotional and marketing materials—both print and digital—reflect our commitment to educational excellence and our mission to inspire lifelong learning through literacy, language, and knowledge development. You'll be the guardian of clarity, consistency, and quality across all customer-facing marketing communications.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Edit and proofread marketing materials including catalogs, sales sheets, email campaigns, web copy, social media content, advertisements, and promotional collateral
- Ensure accuracy, clarity, consistency, and adherence to brand voice and style guidelines
- Verify product information, pricing, ISBNs, and educational specifications
- Review materials for grammatical correctness, punctuation, and spelling
- Maintain and apply company style guide and editorial standards across all marketing channels
- Flag inconsistencies in messaging, tone, or brand representation
- Conduct fact-checking for educational claims and product descriptions
- Collaborate with design team to ensure copy fits layouts without compromising message clarity
- Partner with marketing, sales, product development, and editorial teams to maintain messaging alignment
- Provide constructive feedback to content creators and copywriters
- Meet tight deadlines while managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute to content strategy discussions
- Adapt editing approach for various formats (print catalogs, websites, emails, social media, video scripts)
- Review digital assets for accessibility and user experience
Job Requirements/Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree and 3 – 5 years of experience as a copy editor, preferably in publishing, education or marketing.
- Exceptional command of grammar, punctuation, and AP/Chicago Manual of Style
- Strong attention to detail with ability to spot inconsistencies and errors
- Understanding of educational publishing terminology and K-12 market preferred
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and familiarity with project management tools
- Basic understanding of CMS platforms and HTML helpful
- Excellent time management and ability to prioritize competing deadlines
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Rate Range: $25-$30/hour
*The hourly range represents the low and high end of the expected rate range for the position. The base rate offered may depend on a variety of factors such as geographic location, experience, education, and skill level.
ABOUT BENCHMARK EDUCATION COMPANY
Benchmark Education Company (BEC) is a leading publisher of core, supplemental, and intervention literacy and language resources in English and Spanish, with valid and reliable digital assessments that inform instruction. BEC is also a provider of exceptional professional development to educators.
BEC is recognized as a responsive publisher that offers equally rigorous and engaging digital, print, and hybrid learning materials grounded in the Science of Reading research. BEC monitors research outcomes carefully to create effective foundational resources that include strong decoding materials with systematic and explicit instruction and high-quality resources focused on language development and comprehension. BEC’s content-rich and authentic texts offer instruction in close reading and analysis, multiple perspectives, and authentic literature while building world knowledge and reflecting the individuality of every student in each diverse classroom.
Family owned and operated for more than 25 years, BEC is committed to partnering with educators to provide the best for all students through resources of exceptional quality, world-class professional learning, and effective and dedicated customer support.
Benchmark Education Publishing (BEC) and its affiliates are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
For further information, visit us at: https://www.benchmarkeducation.com
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- 3-5 years of experience as a copy editor
- Exceptional command of grammar, punctuation, and AP/Chicago Manual of Style
- Strong attention to detail and ability to spot inconsistencies and errors
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
- Excellent time management and ability to prioritize competing deadlines
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Experience preferably in publishing, education, or marketing
- Understanding of educational publishing terminology and K-12 market
- Familiarity with project management tools
- Basic understanding of CMS platforms and HTML
What We Do
Why Choose Benchmark Education? Many educational publishing companies say their literacy programs are best. So what makes Benchmark Education programs different? In 1998, we published our first literacy resources. Though we have grown, our mission has not changed: to provide classroom-tested solutions that help differentiate instruction and enable EVERY student to achieve success. Our research-proven programs include content-rich leveled books, differentiated instruction, intervention programs, and professional development that help you meet the needs of ALL kinds of learners – including needs not met by other educational publishers. Choose Benchmark Education and get exceptional teacher tools proven to accelerate student achievement.
