Senior EditorEnhancement Specialist (51867)

Position Objective: Provide services as a Senior Editor/Enhancement Specialist in support of the overall functions of an Intelligence Agency supporting GAP Solutions Inc.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Review analyze and correct draft material for clarity consistency style format logic and organization as well as grammar word usage spelling and punctuation.

Review correspondence products and provide guidance to subject matter experts tasking coordinators and other editors regarding logic clarity comprehensiveness relevance and brevity.

Work on multiple projects with simultaneous deadlines under fast-paced conditions; must be available to perform duties in a high-pressure environment as necessary.

Perform structural substantive and copy edits of analytical manuscripts for organization completeness logic accuracy and compliance with language style formatting.

Produce process and disseminate documents in different hardcopy softcopy and web formats and ensure compatibility with a variety of computer systems and telecommunications networks.

Provide quality control in accordance with customer policy and standards for correspondence.

Attend regularly scheduled editor and tasking support meetings and stay current with ongoing action items and Front Office Support Packets (FOSPs).

Review tasking and FOSP metadata for completeness and correctness.

Demonstrate customer service excellence by clearly and concisely communicating work status methods instructions problems requirements options and concerns with team members managers and customers.

Support the division in accomplishing its overall mission including expediting crisis work special assignments and ad hoc tasking on variously scheduled arrangements.

Provide oversight & direction to lower-level contractor employees on this task order.

Perform quality control and quality assurance checks on lower-level contractor employees work on this task order.

Basic Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI with CI Poly
• US Citzenship
• At least ten years of relevant professional-editing experience. Relevant education may count towards meeting this requirement but not preferred.
• A bachelors degree in a related field (e.g. Journalism or English) to the support services may count for up to four years of this experience.

A masters degree in a field related to the support services may count for up to two additional years of this experience.

Superior and demonstrable proficiency in English language mechanics and vocabulary.

Knowledge of government-mandated plain language principles.

Strong computer skills and demonstrated proficiency on PC platforms.

Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe Acrobat.

Working knowledge of electronic publishing software such as Adobe lnDesign and Adobe FrameMaker.

Achieve 80 percent or higher on a diagnostic assessment which will be administered by the customer. Should a lower score be achieved the government may consider waiving the requirement at the request of the contractor.

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least 10 years of professional relevant editing experience along with an undergraduate or graduate degree in Journalism or English OR at least 15 years of professional editing experience without the specified degree.
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent writing skills.
• Familiarity with the US Intelligence Community--specifically imagery collection and exploitation.

*This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required by this position.

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.