Senior Technical Editor for Federal Publications

Jobtailor; United States; On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced technical editor to edit and QA complex documents for federal contracts. You will manage multiple rounds of reviews, ensure accuracy, accessibility, and publication readiness, and collaborate with researchers, reviewers, and clients across a range of deliverables.

The role requires a Bachelor’s in a technical or scientific field and 5–10 years of editing experience. On-site work in the Washington DC area is expected, with standard business hours.

Qualifications

• Edit complex technical content for clarity, accuracy, consistency, organization, and publication readiness.
• Apply U.S. GPO Style Manual, APA, and client-specific style guides.
• Ensure Section 508 accessibility across print, web, and electronic deliverables.
• Quality control for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and formatting across documents.

Responsibilities

• Edit client deliverables for clarity, structure, and publication readiness.
• Provide substantive editing, copyediting, proofreading, rephrasing, formatting, rewriting, and fact-checking.
• Verify technical accuracy and consistency of narrative text, data, tables, figures, and references.
• Apply style guides (GPO, APA) and client standards.
• Review materials for Section 508 accessibility across formats.
• Perform final quality control for grammar and formatting.
• Maintain version control and support multi-round review workflows.
• Collaborate with researchers, subject matter experts, project managers, federal stakeholders, and client teams.
• Work independently under tight timelines while meeting federal quality standards.
• Serve as final editorial gatekeeper for reports, summaries, decks, infographics, SOPs, manuals, web content, and newsletters.

Skills

Technical Editing

Copyediting

Proofreading

Fact-Checking

Reference Checking

Formatting

Rewriting

Publication Production

Editing Long-Form Documents

Education

Bachelor’s degree in technical writing, English, journalism, communications, science, engineering, transportation, public policy, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Word

PDF Editing Tools

AI Tools for Editing

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced technical editor to edit and QA complex documents for federal contracts. You will manage multiple rounds of reviews, ensure accuracy, accessibility, and publication readiness, and collaborate with researchers, reviewers, and clients across a range of deliverables.

The role requires a Bachelor’s in a technical or scientific field and 5–10 years of editing experience. On-site work in the Washington DC area is expected, with standard business hours.