Technical Writer - Editor

Title: Technical Writer/Editor

Location: United States

Job Description:

Summit Technologies, Inc. has a Technical Writer/Editor opportunity for an up-to-3-year federal proposal. This effort is to generate electronic educational courses and training, including facilitator materials and assessments, to be loaded into an existing portal using the Blackboard Learning Management System and potentially other learning platforms. This position is fully remote with minimal travel.

Responsibilities

• Provide scriptwriting/multimedia support services encompassing research, story line development and character development for video projects.
• Collaborate with instructional systems designers to incorporate instructional principles, theories, concepts, and best practices into plans for training materials and products.
• Write, format, update, review, and edit materials for training courses and website postings that include, but are not limited to, technical narratives, student training aids, training manuals, instruction guides, lesson plans, policies and procedures, webinars, and computer-based training applications.
• Write and edit instructional materials, technical reports and/or technical documentation using MS Office applications.
• Coordinate contents of final drafts with originators for the final narrative to ensure content and material is suitable in terms of coverage, balance and methods of expression and presentation and provide timely feedback.
• Maintain records of manuscript status, approvals, changes, and corrections during the production process.
• Maintain all program scripts.
• Perform a variety of writing tasks ensuring cohesiveness, clarity, flow, appropriate reading level, and compliance with Army and grammatical writing guidelines.
• Perform writing tasks that include but are not limited to narration, scripts, storyboards, and documents previously identified.
• Provide final documents for use in courseware development or film production.
• Facilitate the review and acceptance of all documents for technical, legal, security, and public affairs approval as required.

Preferred Knowledge and Experience

• Experience with writing and editing technical and project documentation
• Provide technical writing and editing support and maintain Section 508 compliance.