Technical Communication Specialist

by | Jun 23, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Technical Communication Specialist

Location: US-Remote

C: 4.77

Full Time

Posting Description

GovCIO is a team of transformers–people who are passionate about transforming government I.T. We believe in making a difference by developing digital strategies and delivering the technology-related innovation that improves governmental operations each day.

But we can’t do it alone. We welcome and nurture an inclusive and diversified work culture. Because different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives make us better decision-makers, problem solvers, and creators. We’re changing the face of I.T. – from our diverse staff to the end-products we develop. And we’re excited to expand our team. Are you ready to be a transformer?

Responsibilities

GovCIO is currently looking for a Technical Communication Specialist to join our growing team. We are working with our customer to provide support in getting the message out about the positive things going on within OCTO PeopleOps! Our goal is to find someone with PowerPoint experience who has no trouble working with multiple groups to input updates into decks while meeting deadlines and keeping the customer aware. If you are someone who can look at something and offer solutions/recommendations while providing reasoning, this could be a role for you! GovCIO aims to transform government IT by delivering the technology-related innovation necessary to improve governmental operations every day.

  • Experience in PowerPoint, collecting comments from multiple sources and integrating it into a cohesive response.
  • Action item tracking organization of data calls and responses
  • Demonstrated skill with oral and written communication.
  • Generate, control, distribute, and maintain various documents, data, processes and artifacts in accordance with VA directives.
  • Track all information reported to internal and external organizations.
  • Act as the point of contact who is able to provide data and records management support for all executive reports and responses.
  • Complete forms and registrations as directed by the office senior executives.
  • Draft executive summaries, white papers and memorandums as directed by the office senior executives.
  • Support special assignments as assigned.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

  • PowerPoint experience to compile and edit decks
  • Need to be able to lead and drive tasks on meeting
  • Proactive
  • Ability to drive conversations and offer solutions to improving the environment
  • Understanding next steps with minimal feedback/supervision
  • Detail-oriented
  • Preferred Skills and Experience
  • Ability to create/edit graphs/charts a plus
  • Experience with data analysis and gap analysis a plus

Compensation Range (In compliance with Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act for remote or positions located in CO)

$80,000 – $85,000

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Content Designer 

by | Jun 23, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Content Designer

at Addepar

Remote, USA

Who We Are

Addepar’s purpose is to maximize the positive impact of the world’s capital. More than 700 of the world’s leading financial services firms trust Addepar to unlock the power and possibility of informed, data driven investing and advice. These family offices, wealth managers, banks and institutions use Addepar’s purpose-built SaaS platform and associated Marketplace to deliver exceptional value to their clients in a modern, scalable and secure way.

Our clients use Addepar to manage and advise on more than $3.5 trillion in assets, and we’ve been adding more than $15 billion per week for many consecutive quarters, making us one of the fastest growing companies in fintech. Our board and investors are some of the best in the business: D1 Capital, WestCap, 8VC and Valor Equity Partners have led our last few rounds.

We’re now expanding Addepar’s business around the globe, with clients in more than 25 countries. We’re constantly doubling down on tech- and data-fueled innovation, and our product and platform roadmap is more ambitious today than ever. We place our clients at the center of everything we do, and see a virtually unlimited set of opportunities to expand our client footprint and deepen the value we can unlock by building together.

Addepar is a Forbes Fintech 50 company and an honored member of the CB Insights Fintech 250. Addepar embraces a global flexible workforce model with offices in Silicon Valley, New York City, Salt Lake City and Edinburgh, Scotland.

*Marketplace and brokerage services provided by Acervus Securities, Inc., an SEC registered brokerdealer and member FINRA / SIPC.

The role

The Design Department at Addepar shapes wealth managers’ digital experiences. By designing and delivering intuitive, easy-to-use products, we help wealth managers grow their businesses and provide best-in-class services to their clients. We foster an agile, client-centered work environment with a focus on constructive feedback and collaboration. We’re passionate about delivering innovative, accessible, and beautiful products that redefine our clients’ day-to-day financial activities.

We’re looking for a motivated, collaborative, and creative individual that’s excited to contribute and grow in their content design career.

In this role, you’ll help set the vision for product content, and write useful, meaningful copy that helps users complete tasks.

Our ideal candidate is passionate about crafting intuitive, innovative, and beautiful user experiences that people love. You enjoy simplifying complexity and making traditionally technical and overwhelming experiences easy and enjoyable.

This role is part of the Product organization and collaborates with product management, design, and engineering. This is not a content marketing role.

What you’ll do

  • Develop knowledge of the users, workflows, and problems in your product areas and contribute to the vision for them.
  • Balance empathy, logic, and data to make informed content decisions.
  • Design UI copy for interactions, notifications, error messages, and more.
  • Develop and maintain clear, easy-to-follow help articles.
  • Publish release notes for new features and bug fixes.
  • Collaborate with and influence product management, design, and engineering teams.
  • Regularly share and solicit feedback on your work.
  • Help facilitate productive meetings, working sessions, and workshops.
  • Uphold our brand principles and guidelines for product language and tone.
  • Learn and gain expertise in design and operational tools at Addepar.

Requirements

  • At least 1 year of experience writing for products. This can be for hardware, software, or at a digital agency.
  • A portfolio of UX writing samples that showcase how you think about and approach designing exceptional content experiences.
  • High emotional intelligence. People enjoy working with you.
  • Exceptional writing, collaboration, communication, and presentation skills.
  • Some experience working with design and prototyping tools like Figma.
  • Some experience in the finance industry is not required, but a huge plus.

Our Values

  • Act Like an Owner – Think and operate with intention, purpose and care. Own outcomes.
  • Build Together – Collaborate to unlock the best solutions. Deliver lasting value.
  • Champion Our Clients – Exceed client expectations. Our clients’ success is our success.
  • Drive Innovation – Be bold and unconstrained in problem solving. Transform the industry.
  • Embrace Learning – Engage our community to broaden our perspective. Bring a growth mindset.

In addition to our core values, Addepar is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We seek to bring together diverse ideas, experiences, skill sets, perspectives, backgrounds and identities to drive innovative solutions. We commit to promoting a welcoming environment where inclusion and belonging are held as a shared responsibility.

To ensure the health and safety of all Addepeeps and our prospective candidates, we have instituted a virtual interview and onboarding experience.

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Business Analyst 

by | Jun 23, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Business Analyst

Location: US-Remote

C: 4.06

POSITION TYPE: Full-time

Posting Description

GovCIO is a team of transformers–people who are passionate about transforming government I.T. We believe in making a difference by developing digital strategies and delivering the technology-related innovation that improves governmental operations each day.

But we can’t do it alone. We welcome and nurture an inclusive and diversified work culture. Because different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives make us better decision-makers, problem solvers, and creators. We’re changing the face of I.T. – from our diverse staff to the end-products we develop. And we’re excited to expand our team. Are you ready to be a transformer?

Job Overview

GovCIO is seeking a candidate for the position of Business Analyst to support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). This includes working with business partners to improve data communication and reporting abilities by assisting in the Business Understanding, Data Understanding, Data Preparation, Modeling, Evaluation, and Deployment processes of a centralized health reporting service. The environment is dynamic and client needs are often evolving; flexibility and forward-thinking views are important for success.

Responsibilities

  • Work with your team of subject matter experts, business analysts, change managers, and technical communications specialists to prioritize and ingest health data from a variety of VA sources to enable end-users to drive results through successful implementation of use cases
  • Facilitate communications, decision making, and alignment across the different sets of stakeholders, VA leaders, and your team members to create the centralized health data repository and environment
  • Assist in the build and support of a consolidated reporting data schema from 10+ health data stores including schema mapping and schema conflict resolution.
  • Work closely with our technical communication specialists on internal and external communications.
  • Help create and document product management and product delivery process.
  • Document and understand the VA business process and support business process improvement.
  • Use data, analytics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to drive decision-making.
  • Support strategic planning by helping build an analysis framework for incubation initiative evaluation.
  • Learn all about the VA and its high-level strategic objectives.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree in engineering, or a related scientific or technical discipline is required
  • 10 years of experience
  • +8 years of additional experience may be substituted for education
  • Must have experience planning, analyzing, and gathering project-related requirements
  • Must have strong qualitative and quantitative analytical skills.
  • Must have demonstrated strong experience juggling multiple priorities, often with tight deadlines.
  • Experience with Agile and Scaled Agile Processes.
  • Experience using Jira or similar tool

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Experience gathering requirements for creating data repositories
  • Knowledge of health data modeling, health data mapping, and health data standards
  • Knowledge of data transformation tools and techniques
  • Knowledge of data quality assessments and remediation planning
  • Experience presenting to senior leadership.
  • 1 or more years’ experience within the VA.
  • Ability to quickly grasp organizational program goals and objectives and correlate to key program events and milestones.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Good decision-making and interpersonal skills.

Compensation Range (In compliance with Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act for remote or positions located in CO)

$115,000 – $125,000

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Functional Analyst

by | Jun 23, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Functional Analyst

Location: US-Remote

C: 4.06

Posting Description

GovCIO is a team of transformers–people who are passionate about transforming government I.T. We believe in making a difference by developing digital strategies and delivering the technology-related innovation that improves governmental operations each day.

But we can’t do it alone. We welcome and nurture an inclusive and diversified work culture. Because different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives make us better decision-makers, problem solvers, and creators. We’re changing the face of I.T. – from our diverse staff to the end-products we develop. And we’re excited to expand our team. Are you ready to be a transformer?

Project Overview

The mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Information & Technology (OI&T), Health Environment and Logistics Management (HELM) Product Line is to provide benefits and services to Veterans of the United States. In meeting these goals, OI&T strives to provide high quality, effective, and efficient Information Technology (IT) services to those responsible for providing care to the Veterans at the point-of-care, as well as throughout all touch points of the Veterans’ health care in an effective, timely and compassionate manner. VA relies on Information Management/Information Technology (IM/IT) systems to meet mission goals. VA OI&T HELM delivers world-class, Veteran-centric capabilities that provide secure, seamless delivery of services to Veterans and their families. The HELM portfolio consists of a variety of products, programs, and projects that deliver Veteran-centric technology solutions that are available, adaptable, secure, and cost-effective.

Functional Analyst Role

Functional Analyst serves as a liaison between the technical team and business stakeholders to assist in development and elaboration of requirements for the Supply Chain Graphical User Interface (SC GUI) program. The Functional Analyst facilitates requirements elaboration and defines epics, features, and user stories; identifies dependencies such as upstream and downstream applications. The Functional Analyst interacts with Business Sponsors, Agile Project Team (APT), and Program Stakeholders in support of the program leadership team and VA Executive leadership, to determine vision, scope, and schedule. The Functional Analyst coordinates the integration of those services and ensures adherence to processes and procedures, monitors progress toward milestones, and tracks workstream status, issues, and risks and reports them to SC GUI Program Leadership as needed.

The successful candidate will have a combination of IT project experience, both large and small, and must be well-versed in the full systems development life cycle, Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) integration, business process reengineering, Risk Management, Testing, and Schedule Management practices.

Tasks Required

The Functional Analyst is responsible for the following core activities:

  • Supporting SC GUI programs goals, resource planning, monitoring, and reporting progress, providing oversite of contractors, providing complete oversight of programs milestones to ensure the contractor team is meeting those goals, and monitoring risks to the SC GUI program.
  • Sharing pertinent information with the SC GUI team and other stakeholders as required.
  • Liaising with the Document Storage System (DSS) Team, Veteran Integrated Service Networks (VISN) Representatives, team technical Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), IT Operations and Services (ITOPS), Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA), Office of Electronic Health Record Modernization (OEHRM), Medical Logistics (MEDLOG) and any other internal or external stakeholders as required.
  • Working with leads to create strategies to improve ongoing activities as needed.

Other duties and responsibilities include:

  • Managing the customer relationship and providing technical direction and leadership.
  • Managing all aspects of the development and implementation of assigned projects, providing a single point of contact for those projects.
  • Identifying and mitigating risks to the program.
  • Specifying systems requirements and ensuring that completed systems meet requirements.
  • Managing to cost, schedule, and performance for the engineering workstream.
  • Defining and implementing project metrics for scope, schedule, cost, and quality.
  • Developing detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports.
  • Effectively leading technical professionals and a cross-functional team.
  • Ensuring execution of quality deliverables within established schedules.
  • Collaborating with teams across the customer organization to improve processes, results, and customer experience.
  • Ensuring the organization and processes remain aligned with customer policies and external directives.

Competencies

The successful candidate shall have the following traits:

  • Analytical Thinking – Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis and the ability to determine the root cause of problems and create alternative solutions that resolve the problems in the best interest of the business.
  • Effective Communications – Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools, and techniques; ability to effectively and accurately transmit, receive, and interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors. Ability to effectively write/technical writing. Ability to translate technical approaches and methodologies into lay terms.
  • Effectiveness Measurement – Ability to measure the quality and quantity of work effort for the purpose of improvement.
  • Industry Knowledge – Knowledge of the organization’s industry group, trends, directions, major issues, regulatory considerations, and trendsetters; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
  • PMBOK Standards, Procedures & Policies – Knowledge of and the ability to utilize a variety of project management skill sets and technical knowledge to manage organizational IT policies, standards, and procedures.
  • Planning: Tactical, Strategic – Ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
  • Problem Solving – Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

Education/Other Relevant Work Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related scientific or technical discipline is required with ten years of experience. An additional eight years of related experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.
  • Conversant in project management tools such as JIRA, MS Project, SharePoint, and capacity models.

Additional Requirements

  • Must be a US citizen.
  • Must be able to pass background investigation.
  • Previous Department of Veterans Affairs experience preferred.

Compensation Range (In compliance with Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act for remote or positions located in CO)

$95,000 – $100,000

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Editor, Wealth 

by | Jun 23, 2022 | Uncategorized

Job Description

Title: Editor, Wealth | Bankrate

Location: New York, NY, Charlotte, NC, Austin, TX, Remote

Red Ventures is looking for an Investing Editor to join our Bankrate team. The editor will be responsible for contributing to and executing on our strategy for investing and retirement content while using SEO and editorial best practices to edit articles that are highly visible on organic search and social media.

This editor will be responsible for assigning content, updating existing stories, editing articles from both internal and freelance writers, and collaborating with the editorial and SEO teams on content creation. The editor should have solid editing skills, as well as strong project management, communication and collaboration skills. An ability to work well in a team setting is a must.

What You’ll Do:

  • Identify, pitch, assign and edit investing-related stories that rank highly on search and resonate with our consumer audience
  • Help manage day-to-day coverage of Bankrate’s stocks, funds, crypto and retirement planning content
  • Work closely with SEO analysts to identify priorities and execute a content strategy
  • Stay up to date on news and trends in the financial markets to drive decisions on emerging content opportunities
  • Update existing portfolio of investing and retirement content (guides, comparisons, explainers, news, reviews, etc.) for timeliness and accuracy
  • Coach and mentor writers on best practices, while managing the publishing process in our content management system (WordPress)
  • Edit internally and externally produced content for AP Style, brand voice and tone
  • Check story drafts for errors, typos and linking opportunities
  • Work with the investing editorial and SEO teams to make monthly updates to key transactional pages

What We’re Looking For:

  • 2+ years of writing/editing financial content with proven experience covering investing or wealth management for a related publication
  • Excellent research, writing and editorial skills, with the ability to effectively communicate edits to writers
  • Excellent project management and communication skills
  • Experience meeting tight deadlines while working independently to manage multiple projects
  • Knowledge of SEO and social media best practices
  • Ability to grasp the voice, style and tone of the Bankrate brand
  • Desire to work closely with a fast-paced, high-performing team in a collaborative environment
  • Experience with AP Style

Who We Are:

Over the last twenty years, Red Ventures has built a portfolio of influential brands, digital platforms, and strategic partnerships that work together to connect millions of people with expert advice. Through premium content and personalized digital experiences, Red Ventures builds online journeys that make it easier for people to make important decisions about their homes, health, travel, finances, education and entertainment. Founded in 2000, Red Ventures has 3,000 employees in 10 cities across the US, as well as in the UK and Brazil. Red Ventures owns and operates several large digital brands including Healthline, The Points Guy, Bankrate, MYMOVE, and Allconnect.com.
For more information, visit https://redventures.com and follow @RedVentures on social platforms.

We offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits program for full-time employees, including medical, dental and vision coverage, paid time off, life insurance, disability coverage, employee assistance program, 401(k) plan and a paid parental leave program.

Red Ventures is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or any other basis protected by law. Employment at Red Ventures is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with disabilities. This includes providing reasonable accommodation where appropriate. Should you require a reasonable accommodation to apply or participate in the job application or interview process, please contact accommodation@redventures.com.

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