This is no ordinary opportunity.

Our Production Coordinator has the power to change the lives of millions of children around the world.

Reporting to the Head of Production (Publishing), the Publishing Coordinator is a member of Library For All's Publishing Team who will create positive impact for children around the world by coordinating the production of culturally diverse and age appropriate children's books for our library.

As a Publishing Coordinator, you will:

• Bring your strong editing and production skills to the publication of culturally diverse, illustrated children's books and educational resources for children in remote, low-income and otherwise compromised reading environments in Australia and globally
• Use your exceptional written and verbal communication skills to commission creatives from a diverse and multilingual network of authors, illustrators, designers, translators, editors and proofreaders to deliver manuscripts, images, illustrations and design layouts
• Be ready to respond, working closely with cultural advisors, funding partners, and government advisors to ensure books and educational resources reach children as quickly as possible, without compromising our high quality benchmarks

We've already changed the lives of more than 250,000 children, and with your help we can grow that to 20 million before the end of this decade.

Library For All is no ordinary Not-for-Profit.

As a social enterprise of Save the Children Australia, our mission is to make knowledge accessible to all equally. We have a proud history of leveraging innovation in our everyday work to deliver meaningful change for children's education around the world. As a trusted partner to many of the world's leading development agencies, we're laser-focused on scaling our impact to create measurable change for millions more children.

We offer you: A place to make a difference

In this full-time, fixed term role (12 months, with potential for extension), you'll work as a part of our Publishing team in Brisbane, or remotely, to help us create lasting change for children everywhere. The Production Coordinator plays an important role in delivering on our vision of a better world for children. Whether it's working with an illustrator to produce culturally relevant illustrations for a new book, or maintaining our publishing records through our bespoke cataloguing and epub distribution tools, you'll be contributing to our commitment to children in Australia, the Pacific and around the world.

You will make a difference by:

• Supporting the Publishing Team in managing the end-to-end production of content assets, including compliance with budgets and schedules set by internal and external suppliers and contractors
• Coordinating the acquisition of content assets across the publishing pipeline, including manuscripts, images, illustrations, digital books, print books and educational resources
• Creating clear and comprehensive briefs for contributors and monitoring their compliance, correspondence and delivery of assets
• Providing timely and accurate editing, proofreading, and layout checking on a range of fast-moving and varied publication programs
• Contributing to the continuous improvement and implementation of processes and workflows, based on monitoring and evaluation of publishing outcomes

A place to feel valued

Your deep expertise in the production arm of the publishing process, including editing, design, and communication with a wide range of creative contributors is invaluable.
This role requires:

• Significant book industry understanding across a variety of areas such as graphic design, printing, editorial, publication standards, or project management
• Significant experience and success in an editing and/ or publishing role, ideally with a collection featuring a strong focus on cultural diversity
• Demonstrated knowledge of the impact potential, and environmental limitations, of book production and distribution (ideally) in low-income, remote, or otherwise compromised environments
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Tertiary qualifications and/or industry accreditations in the fields of Creative Industries, Editing or Publishing will be highly regarded

A place to belong

We are diverse personalities, backgrounds and talents, embracing our differences as one strong and united team. We see and celebrate the unique value you bring to our organisation, and offer a range of rewards for your effort, including:

• Opportunity to work on additional projects to enable you to stretch and feel connected to programs in a different way
• Support for workplace wellness, including access to our free, confidential Employee Wellbeing Program
• Celebrate and feel supported in your diversity. We've established internal networks to support our diverse workforce, foster inclusion and allow you to bring your whole self to work (if that's what you want!) (Pride@Save, Parents and Carers@Save, Mental Wellness Alliance, Disability@Save, First Nations Advisory Committee).
• Full salary packaging benefits (please use this link to see how much this benefit could mean to you!)

Follow this link for the full list of our employee benefits.

Does this sound like the place for you?

We'd love to hear from you. Submit your cover letter and resume below.

Applications close: 4pm AEST on the closing date.

Position Description: Production Coordinator

For more information about this position, please contact Lara Cain Gray on [email protected] using the subject line: Production Coordinator - Publishing enquiry via EthicalJobs. Or for more information about a career at LFA and Save the Children Australia, visit our Careers Page.

*We understand the need for work-life balance. We've advertised this role as full time, but if you're looking for something different, please let us know. We offer flexible hours, remote working, and individual flexibility plans to ensure we're providing you a personalised career.

We have tested our application process with diverse groups in mind, with the intent to ensure it's straightforward and accessible for all to apply. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and improve our ability to reach our most vulnerable client groups. But we also know there is no one-size fits-all when it comes to recruitment - so if we didn't quite hit the mark for you, please let us know at [email protected]. We're dedicated to ensuring Library For All is a place where everyone can feel supported - no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality, neurodiversity, culture and beliefs.

Library For All is a child-safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct. We also support the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.
Library For All is committed to providing and maintaining a safe working environment for its employees and client groups, consistent with our obligations under OH&S legislation.

If you are having any issues with uploading your application for this role, please contact [email protected] for further support.