Senior Technical Writer

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

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. The role emphasizes plain-language communication and technology-enabled content operations where applicable.

The candidate will collaborate with SMEs, clinicians, researchers, program managers, and federal stakeholders to ensure accuracy and alignment with program goals, while maintaining reusable content assets and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in English, communications, journalism, or related field.
• 5+ years of professional writing, editing, or technical communications experience.
• 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.

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.

Skills

Technical writing

Plain language

Content management

Metadata tagging

Workflow automation

Stakeholder collaboration

Editing

Project management

Health communications

Documentation standards

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Excel

SharePoint

Teams

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.Learn moreabout PFS Benefits.

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