Technical Writer/ Editor

Job Description

Job Title: Technical Writer/Editor

Location: Ft Meade, MD

Responsibilities:

· Oversees the editing of material for reports, manuals, briefs, proposals, instruction books, catalogs, and related technical and administrative publications.

· Edits the most complex manuscripts by reviewing content for completeness, accuracy and correctness of language use and revises manuscripts to meet predetermined standards of style and accuracy.

· Looks for inconsistencies of thought, development or organization.

· Confers with authors to recommend treatment of material. Reorganizes, cuts or rewrites as necessary.

· May edit copy as well.

· May supervise junior staff.

· Provide editorial support to analysts writing CI analytic products in support of analysis in response to specific requirements listed in AR381-12, AR381-20, and AR525-13, and DoD Instruction 5240.18.

· Responsible for independently editing, designing, and managing the contents of the finished multimedia intelligence publications which are disseminated on the INTELINK and INTELINK-S for the entire IC.

· Additionally responsible for ensuring final products are written with adequate clarity for the intended audience, arranged logically, grammatically correct, adheres to accepted rules of style, and contains the proper security classification caveats and markings as directed by national/DoD/DA guidance.

· Modify templates developed in Microsoft Word 2003 for 24 existing product lines and sub-product lines for products that range from two to more than one hundred pages in length.

· Provide analysts with expert technical knowledge and advice in planning, coordinating, and the time sequencing involved in the steps required to produce a publication.

· Represent the ACIC at meetings with Government contractors, personnel from DA, National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC), and National level intelligence agencies to discuss and solve technical issues involving the publication of final intelligence products, dissemination on electronic media, and conforming standards with Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DODIIS).

Qualifications

· Requires formal training in a particular discipline, excellent communications skills and extensive editing experience.

· Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 10 to 12 years of related (technical writing, editing) experience and supervisory/management experience.

Additional Information

Fenix Group, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.