Senior Technical Editor (EOB)

Prescient Edge; Quantico (VA); On-site; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and performance bonuses

Comprehensive healthcare benefits

Retirement plan with no vesting schedule

Career development opportunities

Positive work environment

Job summary

A Veteran-Owned Small Business is seeking a Senior Technical Editor to support a federal government client in Quantico, Virginia. This role requires thorough reviews of intelligence products for clarity and consistency, ensuring that they conform to publication standards. Ideal candidates will have at least a Master's degree or a Bachelor's with significant experience and will demonstrate strong independent working skills. The company offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Reviews intelligence products for grammar, punctuation, and clarity.
• Amends draft tables and graphics for accuracy.
• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of mission requirements.

Responsibilities

• Work independently with minimal oversight.
• Ensure style and format meet agency publication standards.
• Collaborate with authors to revise products as needed.

Skills

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Strong communication

Ability to work independently

Education

Master's degree in a related field

Bachelor’s degree + 5 years senior experience

Job description

Prescient Edge is seeking a Senior Technical Editor (EOB) to support a federal government client.

At Prescient Edge, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes:

• A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage.
• A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule.
• Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking.
• A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged.

Security Clearance:

• Security clearance required is TS/SCI with a CI POLY or the ability to obtain a CI POLY.

Job Requirements

Qualifications:

• Reviews intelligence products for proper grammar, punctuation, and syntax, as well as for logic, clarity, and consistency.
• Ensures that style and format conform to agency publication standards and that language presentation is consistent with prescribed style guides and specialized vocabulary of subject matter fields.
• Amends draft tables, tone boxes, and graphics to ensure the content supports and is consistent with the accompanying text.
• Ensures proper classification markings in accordance with IC guidance.
• Works with authors to revise products for narrative organization, and negotiates further revisions as needed.
• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and understanding of the labor category activities required to meet mission requirements.
• Demonstrates mastery of qualitative and quantitative analytic methodologies and pursue developments in academia or other fields that affect tradecraft methodology. Demonstrates ability to define comprehensive, new, or unique research approaches that enable rigorous assessments to address and contribute to high-level tasks.
• Demonstrates in-depth analysis of analytic operations and knowledge management issues across organizational and intra-IC boundaries and clearly articulates key findings.
• Demonstrates ability to work independently and with minimal to no oversight.
• Demonstrated ability to review analytic products for cogent arguments, tradecraft standards, and adequate support for conclusions; routinely tests analytic rigor of analytic products.

Desired Education:

• Master's degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education; or have Bachelor’s degree related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional 5 years of related senior experience, for a total of 17 years, as a substitute to the Master's degree.

Location:

Prescient Edge is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) founded as a counterintelligence (CI) and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) company in 2008. We are a global operations and solutions integrator delivering full‑spectrum intelligence analysis support, training, security, and RD&E support solutions to the Department of Defense and throughout the intelligence community. Prescient Edge is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO). All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic that is protected by law. We strive to foster equity and inclusion throughout our organization because we believe that diversity of thought is critical for creating a safe and engaging work environment while also enabling the organization’s success.