Sr. Technical Editing Support- (Technical Editor)

Prescient Edge; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 100,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary with performancebon

Healthcare benefits

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Prescient Edge in Fort Meade, MD seeks a Sr. Technical Editing Support to ensure analytic publications conform to product templates and DoD/IC standards, collaborating with analysts, editors, and web developers.

The role requires independent editing, layout of complex documents, and revising content for clarity, style, and proper classification markings. Candidates should have experience with HTML/XML, Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, and MS Office, plus security clearance TS/SCI with CI Poly is

Qualifications

• Editorial editing and adherence to style guidelines.
• Experience editing complex intelligence products.
• Ability to ensure proper classification markings and DoD/IC standards.

Responsibilities

• Edit and format analytic products for grammar, clarity, and consistency.
• Modify templates and visuals to align with content and standards.
• Collaborate with analysts, editors, and web developers to finalize publications.
• Ensure compliance with DoDIIS and ACIC publication policies.

Skills

Editorial editing

Attention to detail

Communication with analysts

Independent editing

Education

High School Diploma

Associate’s degree

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

Desktop Publishing

Adobe Acrobat

Photoshop

HTML

XML

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Prescient Edge is seeking a Sr. Technical Editing Support- (Technical Editor) to support a government client.

Benefits & Compensation

• 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.
• Salary range: $100,000 - $132,000. Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills and the abilities of the applicant internal equity, and alignment with market data.

Description

• This position will work directly with analysts, fellow editors, and web developers to ensure that all analytic products conform to product templates, meet requirements of Intelligence Community Directives and ACIC publication standards, and maintain consistency and readability for diverse audiences. Prior to the finished CI research analysis being published, the contractor shall provide editorial support to contractor analysts writing CI analytic products in support of analyses conducted under this PWS, in response to specific requirements listed.
• Personnel assigned to these positions are responsible for independent editing, designing, and managing the contents of the finished multimedia intelligence publications. The contractor personnel post these publications on external-facing ACIC. 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. Ensure proper classification markings in accordance with IC guidance. Works with authors to revise products for narrative organization and negotiate further revisions as needed.
• Shall ensure final documentation is written with adequate clarity for the intended audience, arranged logically, grammatically correct, adhere to accepted rules of style, contain the proper security classification caveats and markings, as directed by national/DoD/DA guidance, and are formatted IAW established ACIC policies and standards.
• Shall formalize the final products IAW established policies and standards.
• Shall modify templates developed for 15 existing product lines and subproduct lines for products that range from two to more than 100 pages in length. Product lines include items such as: ASR, (five sub-product lines, each requiring a unique template), MDCITA, Army Annual Threat Assessment, ACIC Annual Threat Assessment, FPN, CIN, CI Cyber Notes (CICN), and Visual Information Products.
• Shall provide analysts with expert technical knowledge and advice in planning, coordinating, and the time sequencing involved in the steps required to produce a publication.
• Shall attend meetings with Government contractors, personnel from DA, National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC), and National level intelligence agencies to discuss and solve technical issues involving the publication of final intelligence products, dissemination on electronic media, and conforming standards with Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS).

Required experiences

• Two years of experience using Desktop Publishing, basic graphics techniques, Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Extensible Markup Language (XML), and Microsoft Office Suite (Intermediate Word, Excel and PowerPoint).

Required Education

• High School Diploma- 20 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
• Associate’s degree- 16 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
• Bachelor’s degree- 14 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
• Master’s degree- 12 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

Security Clearance

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

Location

• Fort Meade, MD.