Policy & Technical Writer (On‑Call)

Stanfordlivetickets; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 83,000; Part time

Job summary

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory seeks a part-time on-call Policy and Technical Writer/Editor to develop and maintain laboratory-level policies, forms, and related content, collaborating with policy owners and subject matter experts to ensure clarity, accuracy, and compliance.

The role emphasizes plain-language writing, templates, and governance, with responsibilities to coordinate reviews, manage publication schedules, and ensure a consistent institutional voice across documents.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum five years of experience in policy writing, technical writing, editing, or related discipline.
• Ability to translate complex requirements into clear, concise content for diverse audiences.
• Strong technical editing, plain-language editing, and content organization skills.
• Experience creating forms, templates, style guides, and reusable content structures.
• Experience coordinating with policy owners, SMEs, and management.

Responsibilities

• Draft, edit, and maintain policies, procedures, guidance documents, forms, templates, standards, and related content.
• Coordinate development, review, approval, revision, and publication with stakeholders across the laboratory.
• Create and maintain templates, forms, style guidance, editorial standards, and supporting tools.
• Apply plain-language principles and content organization to improve readability and usability.
• Develop a consistent institutional voice, structure, and user experience across documents.
• Review content for accuracy, compliance, terminology, formatting, and alignment with standards.
• Analyze processes to identify documentation needs and improvements to governance practices.
• Support continuous improvement of policy processes, content standards, and publishing workflows.
• Communicate value of standards and governance to stakeholders.
• Manage multiple writing projects, contributors, deadlines, and publication schedules.

Skills

Excellent communication

Project coordination

Analytical thinking

Collaboration/customer service

Microsoft Office/tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in English/Communications/Technical Writing/Public Administration/Business Administration or related field

Tools

SharePoint

Content management systems

Adobe Acrobat

Microsoft Office

Job description

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory seeks a part-time on-call Policy and Technical Writer/Editor to develop and maintain laboratory-level policies, forms, and related content, collaborating with policy owners and subject matter experts to ensure clarity, accuracy, and compliance.

The role emphasizes plain-language writing, templates, and governance, with responsibilities to coordinate reviews, manage publication schedules, and ensure a consistent institutional voice across documents.