Counterintelligence Office Manager

MANTECH•Springfield, VA

7h•$75,500 - $125,600•Onsite

About The Position

MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Counterintelligence Technical Editor to join our team in Springfield, VA. This role provides comprehensive editorial support for all SIC products and correspondence, ensuring adherence to corporate, Agency, and IC standards for publications. The position involves reviewing and editing a high volume of intelligence products monthly, recommending revisions to enhance quality and clarity. The editor will meticulously edit intelligence materials for content accuracy, completeness, appropriate language, organization, visual design, and usability, and conduct copyediting and proofreading to ensure mechanical correctness and stylistic consistency. Collaboration with team leads and Subject Matter Experts is essential, as is optimizing product presentation through effective use of layouts, graphics, and illustrations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in English, Communications, Journalism, or a related discipline.
7+ years of experience editing intelligence products according to Intelligence Community Directives (ICD). Examples of intelligence products include intelligence information reports, intelligence assessments, threat assessments, briefings, and other intelligence related correspondence.
Must have a TS/SCI with the ability to obtain/maintain a polygraph.

Nice To Haves

Editorial certification from an accredited university.
Post-graduate degree in English, Communications, Journalism, or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

Provide comprehensive editorial support for all SIC products and correspondence, ensuring adherence to corporate, Agency, and IC standards for publications.
Review and edit a high volume of intelligence products (approximately 100 monthly), recommending revisions in content, scope, format, and dissemination approaches to enhance quality and clarity.
Thoroughly edit intelligence materials including reports, briefings, proposals, and procedures for content accuracy, completeness, appropriate language, organization, visual design, and usability using software like Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Adobe.
Conduct meticulous copyediting and proofreading to ensure mechanical correctness (spelling, punctuation, grammar), stylistic consistency, and that all corrections from marked-up versions have been implemented.
Collaborate with team leads and Subject Matter Experts to gain mutual understanding of product content and secure concurrence on proposed changes, periodically auditing products for necessary updates.
Optimize product presentation by selecting and recommending effective layouts, graphics, drawings, tables, exhibits, illustrations, charts, or storyboards to amplify and clarify objectives.