Senior Editor/Enhancement Specialist (51867)
$148,000–$153,000 year
On-siteSpringfield, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Review, analyze, and correct draft material for clarity, consistency, style, format, logic, organization, grammar, word usage, spelling, and punctuation. Produce, process, and disseminate documents in hardcopy, softcopy, and web formats while ensuring compatibility with computer systems and telecommunications networks. Provide guidance to subject matter experts and other editors regarding logic, clarity, comprehensiveness, relevance, and brevity. Perform structural, substantive, and copy edits of analytical manuscripts for organization, completeness, logic, accuracy, and compliance with language and style standards. Provide quality control and quality assurance checks on lower-level contractor employees' work. Attend regularly scheduled editor and tasking support meetings to stay current with ongoing action items and Front Office Support Packets. Demonstrate customer service excellence by clearly 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.
Required Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI with CI Poly
- US Citzenship
- At least ten years of relevant professional-editing experience
- A bachelor's degree in a related field (e.g. Journalism or English)
- A master's degree in a field related to the support services
- 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
Desired Qualifications
- At least 10 years of professional relevant editing experience along with an undergraduate or graduate degree in Journalism or English OR at least 15 years of professional editing experience without the specified degree
- Strong presentation and interpersonal skills
- Excellent writing skills
- Familiarity with the US Intelligence Community--specifically, imagery collection and exploitation
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