[Remote] Senior Technical Writer/Editor
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. McGarity Consulting Group is staffing a contingent role supporting a federal accessibility program. The Senior Technical Writer/Editor will edit communications, web content, accessibility guidance, and compliance reports for clarity, consistency, plain language, audience appropriateness, and conformance with Section 508 standards.
Responsibilities
- Provide expert technical editing for communications, web content, and other technical resources, editing for plain language, active voice, appropriate level of detail, consistency, and effective content organization, so that material is readable and easier for its intended audience to understand
- Edit accessibility guidance written by specialists for audiences who are not specialists: program managers, contracting personnel, web teams, content authors, and executives
- Adapt tone and register to the audience and the sensitivity of the subject. The same finding may need to reach a developer, a program director, and a senior executive in three different registers
- Support the program's recurring reporting cycle, editing monthly, quarterly, and annual compliance reporting and topic-specific reports prepared for senior leadership, often on short turnaround
- Hold written products to a consistent standard across multiple authors over a multi-year period
- Ensure written deliverables meet Section 508 standards for electronic content, since everything this program produces is held to the standard it enforces
Skills
- U.S. work authorization required
- Outstanding grammar, spelling, punctuation, and written command of English
- Three years of editing experience
- Demonstrated ability to adapt tone and style to a particular audience's sensitivity
- Accessible document production: structured headings, reading order, alternative text, accessible tables, and tagged PDFs in Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat
- Plain language practice, ideally against federal plain language guidance
- Experience editing technical or compliance material for mixed technical and executive audiences
- Comfort editing to a deadline that moves. Short-notice leadership reporting is a routine feature of this program, not an exception
- Familiarity with accessibility, Section 508, or WCAG is welcome but not required
Benefits
- Fully remote work arrangement
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