Senior Technical Writer

Prometheus Federal Services; Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Flexible spending accounts

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Prometheus Federal Services (PFS) is seeking an experienced Technical Writer III to develop, refine, validate, and manage clear, evidence-informed content for technical programs, working with SMEs, clinicians, researchers, and federal stakeholders.

The role emphasizes plain-language communication, content operations, and collaboration across design sessions, with responsibilities spanning deliverables, version control, and ensuring audit-ready documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in English, communications, journalism, or related field.
• Approximately five (5)+ years of professional writing, editing, or technical communications experience.
• Able to write accurately for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Familiarity with structured content, metadata tagging, templates, CMS, collaboration platforms, and workflow automation.
• Ability to build repeatable writing workflows and maintain audit-ready traceability.
• Comfort evaluating emerging tools for fit, security, usability, and accessibility.
• Strong understanding of technical terminology, healthcare delivery, and health communications.
• Experience developing or editing technical reports, clinical guidance, educational materials, or briefing materials.
• Excellent grammar, structure, tone, and document organization.
• Strong project management and stakeholder coordination skills.
• Proficiency with Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, SharePoint.

Responsibilities

• Develop, edit, and maintain technical documentation, program materials, SOPs, training materials, and website content.
• Collaborate with SMEs, clinicians, researchers, program managers, and federal stakeholders to gather information and validate accuracy.
• Design and maintain reusable content assets, including language libraries, FAQ banks, and templates.
• Support content strategy, review cycles, version control, QA, and document management across multiple deliverables.
• Define data flow between applications with Product Owners, Architects, and technical resources; allocate tasks and interdependencies.
• Coordinate design sessions, take notes, and follow up with stakeholders to close actions.
• Update technical documents based on sessions and requirements.
• Provide final documentation updates for formal deliverable submission.

Skills

Strong writing

Plain language

Project management

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor’s degree in English/communications/journalism

Tools

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Excel

Teams

SharePoint

Job description

Position Summary

Prometheus Federal Services (PFS) is a trusted partner of federal health agencies. We are exploring the addition of an experiencedTechnical Writer III to develop, refine, validate, and manage clear, accurate, evidence-informed content for technical programs. The role requires writing, plain-language communication, and technology-enabled content operations where applicable.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Develop, edit, and maintain technical documentation, program materials, implementation guides, white papers, literature summaries, SOPs, training materials, website content, fact sheets, etc.
• Collaborate with SMEs, clinicians, researchers, program managers, communications specialists, and federal stakeholders to gather information, validate accuracy, resolve comments, and align content with program goals.
• Design and maintain reusable content assets, including approved language libraries, evidence tables, FAQ banks, plain-language modules, executive-summary templates, audience-specific message maps, and review-ready document shells.
• Support content strategy, message development, stakeholder review cycles, version control, quality assurance, and document management across multiple concurrent deliverables.
• Work with project teams to define data flow between applications to be integrated, mapping business process activities to the application dependencies in collaboration with Product Owners, Architects, and technical resources. Additionally, perform functional allocation to identify required tasks and their interrelationships.
• Help coordinate design sessions, take notes during the design sessions, and conduct follow-up with stakeholders to close action items.
• Update technical documents based on design sessions, technical requirements, and/or stakeholder-provided documentation.
• Provide final documentation updates in preparation for formal deliverable submission.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in English, communications, journalism, or related field.
• Approximately five (5)+ years of professional writing, editing, or technical communications experience.
• Demonstrated ability to write accurately for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Familiarity with structured content, content reuse, modular writing, metadata tagging, document templates, content-management systems, collaboration platforms, reference-management tools, and workflow automation.
• Ability to build repeatable writing workflows that reduce manual rework, improve consistency across products, and maintain audit-ready traceability from source evidence to final language.
• Comfort evaluating emerging tools for fit, risk, security, usability, accessibility, source traceability, federal stakeholder needs, and quality-control burden.
• Strong understanding of technical terminology, healthcare delivery systems, and health communications principles.
• Experience developing or editing technical reports, clinical guidance, educational materials, web content, program documentation, training content, or executive-level briefing materials.
• Exceptional command of grammar, structure, tone, plain language, and document organization.
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple deliverables, deadlines, review cycles, and stakeholder inputs simultaneously.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, SharePoint, and collaborative document review tools.
• Authorized to work in the U.S. indefinitely without sponsorship
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust

Compensation & Benefits

PFS offers a benefits package that may include health, dental, and vision coverage; flexible spending accounts; disability and life insurance; a retirement plan; paid time off; and other programs to support employees and their families.

The posted salary range is the company’s good‑faith estimate for this role. PFS benefits and compensation are determined by various factors, including, but not limited to, location; the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience; as well as contract and organizational requirements.

Salary Range: $90,000 - $110,000

Equal Employment Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, political affiliation, military service, or other status protected by law.

Accommodations

PFS is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact us at [e-mail]. Reasonable accommodations are available to ensure applicants with disabilities have equal access to the hiring process, in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and applicable laws.

Workplace Health, Safety, and Compliance

This position may be subject to client‑specific or government‑mandated vaccination, health, or safety requirements, which may change over time.

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