Senior Accessibility Technical Writer & Editor (Remote)

MCGARITY CONSULTING GROUP; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

MCGARITY CONSULTING GROUP is seeking a skilled editor for a federal Section 508 accessibility program. The role focuses on expert editing of communications, web content, and technical resources to improve plain language, active voice, and information hierarchy.

You will adapt tone for program managers, contracting personnel, web teams, and executives, and support monthly to annual compliance reporting, often on short turnarounds.

Qualifications

• Three years of editing experience.
• Outstanding grammar, spelling, punctuation, and written command of English.
• Ability to adapt tone and style to a particular audience's sensitivity.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert technical editing for communications, web content, and other technical resources, editing for plain language, active voice, appropriate level of detail, consistency, and effective content organization.
• Edit accessibility guidance written by specialists for audiences who are not specialists: program managers, contracting personnel, web teams, content authors, and executives.
• Adapt tone and register to the audience and the sensitivity of the subject, reaching developers, program directors, and senior executives.
• Support the program's recurring reporting cycle, editing monthly, quarterly, and annual compliance reporting and topic-specific reports prepared for senior leadership, often on short turnaround.
• Hold written products to a consistent standard across multiple authors over a multi-year period.
• Ensure written deliverables meet Section 508 standards for electronic content.

Skills

Editing

Plain language

Audience adaptation

Technical editing

Section 508

Job description

MCGARITY CONSULTING GROUP is seeking a skilled editor for a federal Section 508 accessibility program. The role focuses on expert editing of communications, web content, and technical resources to improve plain language, active voice, and information hierarchy.

You will adapt tone for program managers, contracting personnel, web teams, and executives, and support monthly to annual compliance reporting, often on short turnarounds.