Technical Editor

Invictus International; Quantico (VA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Invictus International is seeking a Technical Editor in Quantico, VA to ensure intelligence products are clear, accurate, and properly formatted. You will review grammar, punctuation, syntax, and logic, and adjust tables, tone boxes, and graphics to support the accompanying text.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in a related field with 8 years of relevant experience, strong mission knowledge, and the ability to work independently while collaborating with IC teams.

Qualifications

• Reviews intelligence products for grammar, punctuation, and syntax, and for logic, clarity, and consistency.
• Ensures style and format conform to agency publication standards and specialized vocabularies.

Responsibilities

• Amends draft tables, tone boxes, and graphics to align with text content.
• Ensures proper classification markings per IC guidance.
• Collaborates with authors to revise products for narrative organization and resolves revisions as needed.

Skills

Grammar & editing

Style guides

Independent work

Collaboration

Concise reporting

Narrative analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Job description

Title: Technical Editor

Location: Quantico, VA

Clearance: TS/SCI CI Poly

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in an area related to the labor category and 8 years of experience conducting analysis relevant to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years
• Demonstrates comprehensive mission knowledge and skills that affirms completion of all developmental training and experiences for the labor category
• Demonstrates ability to communicate understanding from information that may be incomplete, indirect, highly complex, seemingly unrelated, and / or technically advanced
• Demonstrates ability to structure analysis based on trends in reporting and a range of analytic perspectives from other analysts, organizations, and intelligence disciplines.
• Demonstrates ability to work independently with minimal oversight and direction
• Demonstrates ability to collaborate and work with other IC members on information sharing, driving collection, and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution
• Demonstrates ability to develop concise, insightful, and comprehensive products for defense intelligence
• Demonstrates ability to guide teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems
• Current active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph required