About the Role
Title: Sr. Technical/Copy Editor
Location: Bossier City / United States
Job Description:
Any Location / Remote
time type
Full time
job requisition id
RQ198534
Type of Requisition:
Pipeline
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
None
Public Trust/Other Required:
None
Job Family:
Technical Documentation
Job Qualifications:
Skills:
Deliverables Management, Documentations, Technical Writing
Certifications:
None
Experience:
5 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
No
Job Description:
Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Technical Editor Senior supporting Technology Shared Services (TSS) Writing and Process Management (WPM) team. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.
At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Technical Editor Senior, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on Technical Editor Senior‘s researching, preparing, and editing technical and graphic documentation for a variety of systems and platforms.
GDIT is committed to strategic workforce planning and cultivating a pipeline of talented professionals for anticipated future needs. While there is not an active opening for this position at this time, we welcome expressions of interest from individuals with experience and qualifications aligned to the Technical Editor Senior role.
Submitting your information will allow us to consider you for future opportunities as they arise. We encourage you to apply if you would like to be considered when positions become available.
Thank you for your interest in GDIT. We value your desire to be part of our team and look forward to the possibility of connecting in the future.
HOW A TECHNICAL EDITOR SENIOR WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:
Writing & Editing Support
- Produce high-quality documentation that meets applicable standards and conforms to client-specific style, tone, and document layout standards.
- Create standardized stylesheets and templates with uniform fonts, tables, figures/graphics to establish common programmatic deliverables
- Conduct technical edits on existing legacy documentation, correcting any contextual issues, content organization, or formatting errors.
Process Documentation & Improvement
- Develop process, procedure, and work instruction documentation for projects while collaborating with project leads and management.
- Create and edit easy-to-understand user guides/job aids to help end-users operate a variety of applications or documentation repositories.
- Review existing processes and offer expert recommendations for process improvements, streamlined workflows, and simplified procedures.
- Capture requirements for workflow automation and/or software development.
Deliverable Management
- Collaborate with GDIT programs and TSS service delivery lines to obtain an in-depth understanding of products or services and documentation requirements.
- Clearly define documentation project scope and monitor project schedule until completion and approval.
- Create custom frameworks that define how business processes are designed, executed, monitored, and improved.
- Create and maintain documentation repositories.
- Capture and distribute meeting minutes
- Participates in special projects as required.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:
- Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science in English, Business Administration, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or equivalent.
- 5+ years of related experience
- Experience with MS Suite, MS Visio or other process mapping software
- Extremely proficient writing and critical thinking skills, experience with writing a variety of deliverable types for multiple audiences, experience with managing multiple tasks and prioritizing workload, minimal managerial oversight required, provide training and guidance to lesser experienced team members, demonstrate leadership and ownership of projects/tasks, excellent communication and customer interface experience.
NICE TO HAVE:
- ITIL v4 Foundations
- 508 Compliance experience
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
- Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS)
- Experience with Adobe, XML Editor, PowerPoint, SharePoint, ServiceNow, and Confluence