TECHNICAL WRITEREDITOR
Fort Belvoir, VA - USA
Job Summary
BAE Systems is seeking a Sr Enhancement Specialist Editor to support the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Operations Center to provide editorial services in accordance with the most recent NGA production guidance. The Enhancement Specialist will provide all support services and products required to complete the detailed description of work and responsibilities described as follows:
- 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.
Required Education Experience & Skills :
- At least ten years of relevant professional-editing experience. Relevant education may count towards meeting this requirement.
- A bachelors degree in a field related (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.
- Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent writing skills.
- Familiarity with the US Intelligence Community--specifically imagery collection and exploitation.
Qualifications :
Active TS/SCI Clearance and a Minimum of 8 years of Technical Writing Experience.
Additional Information :
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
About Company
At BAE Systems, our advanced defence technology protects people and national security, and keeps critical information and infrastructure secure. We search for new ways to provide our customers with a competitive edge across the air, maritime, land and cyber domains. We employ a skille ... View more