Publishing Project Specialist

Title: Publishing Project Specialist | Remote

Location: Remote, United States

Job ID

2026-26962

 Job Family

Publishing

Job Description:

Overview

Lifeway is seeking a highly organized Publishing Project Specialist to coordinate publishing production activities across print and digital products. This role ensures publishing standards, workflows, and project timelines are met from pre-production through final delivery.

Why Lifeway? 

Lifeway is a place where you can bring your faith and work experience to join in the most important mission in the world: making disciples of Jesus Christ. Whether you’re a creator or storyteller, data guru or problem-solver, or anywhere in between, if you’re passionate about serving the church, we have a place for you. Lifeway has a strong Work from Anywhere (WFA) culture that is deeply focused on our mission and values. While headquartered in Nashville, TN, many of our positions are remote-eligible and have autonomy and flexibility with work hours. We provide equipment and resources to ensure team members have access to a productive and ergonomic workspace. We believe building relationships and community is essential to how we work together, so Lifeway hosts all-team meetings several times per year and provides travel for key team gatherings for remote-based team members. Full-time employees are eligible for enrollment in our comprehensive benefits plans including healthcare, vacation and sick time, holiday pay, care days, 401(k) plan, maternity and paternity leave, adoption assistance, mission trip time, and more. If this sounds like a place where you would be excited to serve the kingdom of God, we would love for you to join our team.

This is a remote position in the U.S. with occasional travel to Nashville for in-person team gatherings.       #LI-Remote 

Responsibilities

• Lives out Lifeway’s mission and values, showing deep commitment to Kingdom work
• Coordinating copyediting and proofing workflows
• Managing production schedules and stakeholders
• Reviewing proofs and samples for quality assurance
• Supporting digital file delivery to Marketing and ePub teams
• Soliciting bids and managing external proofing/typesetting vendors

Qualifications

Education

Bachelor's degree, required

Masters degree, preferred 

Advanced graduate degree (PhD, etc.),- not required

Skills, Knowledge, & Experiences, required

• 2+ years of project coordination experience
• Strong communication, editing, and organizational skills

Actively involved in an evangelical Christian church

Skills, Knowledge, & Experiences, preferred 

• Publishing or editorial environment experience preferred
• Experience with InDesign and other Adobe suite applications preferred