TECHNICAL WRITER ENHANCEMENT EDITOR

BAE Systems; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

BAE Systems is seeking a Sr Enhancement Specialist Editor to support NGA Operations Center with editorial services following NGA production guidance. You will review and edit material for clarity, grammar, and format across multiple formats and ensure compliance with standards.

Role involves high-pressure, deadline-driven work, guiding editors and task coordinators, and providing oversight to contractors. Strong English proficiency, knowledge of plain language principles, and familiarity with

Qualifications

• At least 6 years of relevant professional-editing experience or equivalent education.
• Bachelor's in English or related field may count for up to four years of experience.
• Master's degree may count for up to two additional years of experience.
• Superior proficiency in English language mechanics and vocabulary.
• Knowledge of government-mandated plain language principles.
• Strong computer skills and proficiency on PC platforms.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe Acrobat.
• Experience with electronic publishing software such as Adobe InDesign and FrameMaker.
• Achieve 80 percent or higher on a diagnostic assessment if required.
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent writing skills.
• Familiarity with US Intelligence Community imagery collection and exploitation.

Responsibilities

• Review, analyze, and correct draft material for clarity, consistency, style, format, logic, and grammar, including punctuation.
• Review correspondence and guide editors on clarity, brevity, and relevance.
• Work on multiple projects with tight deadlines in a high-pressure environment.
• Perform structural, substantive, and copy edits for accuracy and compliance with language and formatting.
• Produce and disseminate documents in hardcopy, softcopy, and web formats; ensure compatibility across systems.
• Provide quality control in accordance with customer policy and standards for correspondence.
• Attend editor and tasking support meetings; stay current with action items and FOSPs.
• Review tasking and FOSP metadata for completeness and correctness.
• Communicate work status and requirements clearly with team, managers, and customers.
• Support division mission, expedite crisis work, and ad hoc tasking.
• Provide oversight and direction to lower-level contractor employees.
• Perform quality control checks on lower-level contractor work.

Skills

Excellent writing skills

Strong presentation skills

English language mechanics

Interpersonal skills

Ability to work under pressure

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in English or related field

Master's degree in related field

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Adobe Acrobat

Adobe InDesign

Adobe FrameMaker

Job description

BAE Systems is seeking a Sr Enhancement Specialist Editor to support the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Operations Center to provide editorial services in accordance with the most recent NGA production guidance. The Enhancement Specialist will provide all support services and products required to complete the detailed description of work and responsibilities described as follows:

• Review, analyze, and correct draft material for clarity, consistency, style, format, logic, and organization, as well as grammar, word usage, spelling, and punctuation.
• Review correspondence products and provide guidance to subject matter experts, tasking coordinators, and other editors regarding logic, clarity, comprehensiveness, relevance, and brevity.
• Work on multiple projects with simultaneous deadlines under fast-paced conditions; must be available to perform duties in a high-pressure environment, as necessary.
• Perform structural, substantive, and copy edits of analytical manuscripts for organization, completeness, logic, accuracy, and compliance with language, style, formatting.
• Produce, process, and disseminate documents in different hardcopy, softcopy, and web formats and ensure compatibility with a variety of computer systems and telecommunications networks.
• Provide quality control in accordance with customer policy and standards forcorrespondence.
• Attend regularly scheduled editor and tasking support meetings and stay current with ongoing action items and Front Office Support Packets (FOSPs).
• Review tasking and FOSP metadata for completeness and correctness.
• Demonstrate customer service excellence by clearly and concisely communicating work status, methods, instructions, problems, requirements, options, and concerns with team members, managers, and customers.
• Support the division in accomplishing its overall mission, including expediting crisis work, special assignments, and ad hoc tasking on variously scheduled arrangements.
• Provide oversight & direction to lower-level contractor employees on this task order.
• Perform quality control and quality assurance checks on lower-level contractor employees work on this task order.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills :

• At least 6years of relevant professional-editing experience. Relevant education may count towards meeting this requirement.
• A bachelor's degree in a field related (e.g. Journalism or English) to the support services may count for up to four years of this experience.
• A master's degree in a field related to the support services may count for up to two additional years of this experience.
• Superior and demonstrable proficiency in English language mechanics and vocabulary.
• Knowledge of government-mandated plain language principles.
• Strong computer skills and demonstrated proficiency on PC platforms.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe Acrobat.
• Working knowledge of electronic publishing software such as Adobe lnDesign and Adobe FrameMaker.
• Achieve 80 percent or higher on a diagnostic assessment, which will be administered by the customer. Should a lower score be achieved, the government may consider waiving the requirement, at the request of the contractor.
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent writing skills.
• Familiarity with the US Intelligence Community--specifically, imagery collection and exploitation.

Qualifications

ACTIVE TS/SCI CLEARANCE

Bachelor's in English or Related Field

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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