Senior Policy & Procedure Writer — Remote Enterprise Risk

Eliassen Group; Springfield (IL); Remote; USD 96,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Policy & Procedure Documentation Specialist to support the enterprise risk framework and governance within the wealth management segment. The role focuses on developing, maintaining, and improving policies, procedures, standards, work instructions, and related governance artifacts.

You will partner with stakeholders across risk, compliance, audit, and operations to ensure accurate, usable documentation and drive consistent standards across templates and workflows.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as policy and procedure documentation specialist or senior technical writer.
• Experience with enterprise risk frameworks, governance, risk and compliance.
• Strong knowledge of style guides, documentation standards, and information architecture.
• Ability to translate complex subject matter into clear content and manage deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enhance policies, procedures, standards, work instructions, and governance documentation.
• Partner with business stakeholders, subject matter experts, risk and compliance teams, and operational leaders.
• Ensure documentation accuracy, compliance, usability, and alignment with objectives.
• Drive consistency across documentation standards and templates.
• Support regulatory and audit readiness through controlled documentation.
• Enable operational excellence and process improvement initiatives through clear documentation.
• Manage version control, change history, and governance workflows.
• Facilitate reviews, approvals, and periodic updates with accountable owners.
• Create user-friendly artifacts and taxonomies that improve discoverability.
• Measure effectiveness and adoption of documentation with defined metrics.

Skills

Policy documentation

Technical writing

Stakeholder collaboration

Documentation standards

Information architecture

Content translation

Deadline management

Wealth management knowledge

Tools

Documentation tools

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Policy & Procedure Documentation Specialist to support the enterprise risk framework and governance within the wealth management segment. The role focuses on developing, maintaining, and improving policies, procedures, standards, work instructions, and related governance artifacts.

You will partner with stakeholders across risk, compliance, audit, and operations to ensure accurate, usable documentation and drive consistent standards across templates and workflows.