- Research laws, regulations, contract requirements, standards, and current practices relevant to assigned policies
- Draft and revise policies, procedures, governance documents, implementation guidance, and decision materials
- Interview subject-matter experts and stakeholders to validate operational reality, risks, dependencies, and ownership
- Reconcile conflicting comments, maintain decision logs, and facilitate review through approval
- Apply templates, plain-language principles, accessibility, version control, metadata, and records-management requirements
- Maintain policy inventories, review schedules, cross-references, change summaries, and authoritative repositories
- Collaborate across technical, program, and customer teams
- Own complex work and support customer outcomes
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in public policy, business, communications, English, technical writing, or a related field, or equivalent directly relevant experience
- Four or more years of policy, procedure, technical, regulatory, program, or governance writing experience
- Demonstrated ability to research requirements, interview subject-matter experts, reconcile comments, and produce clear controlled documents
- Strong editing, organization, plain-language, and stakeholder-management skills
- Employment subject to required background screening
- Some assignments may require the ability to obtain and maintain a public trust determination or security clearance
- Preferred: Experience supporting federal, defense, government contracting, cybersecurity, quality, or regulated programs
- Preferred: Familiarity with NIST, DoD, ISO, CMMI, records-management, or policy-governance frameworks
- Preferred: Experience building policy libraries, approval workflows, or implementation plans
Core Competencies
Demonstrates expertise in policy and procedure writing, including research, drafting, and editing of governance documents. Proficient in stakeholder management and collaboration across diverse teams to achieve customer outcomes.
Highest-signal resume keywords
- Policy Writing
- Regulatory Research
- Stakeholder Management
- Editing and Organization
- Records Management
ATS Optimization Keywords
Hard Skills
- Policy Drafting
- Governance Documentation
- Technical Writing
- Version Control
- Plain-Language Principles
- Change Summaries
- Approval Workflows
- Implementation Plans
- Interviewing Subject-Matter Experts
- Reconciliation of Comments
Soft Skills
- Collaboration
- Organization
- Communication
- Facilitation
- Problem-Solving
Certifications & Qualifications
- Public Trust Determination
- Security Clearance
Industry Keywords
- Federal Programs
- Defense Contracting
- Cybersecurity
- Quality Assurance
- NIST
- DoD
- ISO
- CMMI
- Records-Management Frameworks
- Policy-Governance Frameworks