Technical Editor, Mid

Booz Allen Hamilton•Riverdale Park, MD

5d•$62,000 - $141,000

About The Position

Technical Editor, Mid The Opportunity: With all the information available today, it takes a skilled intelligence professional to know how to support their client in a dynamic environment. With the critical decisions made in our government every day, we need an intel professional like you to do just that. As a Technical Editor, you use your specialized experience and your attention to detail to review professional documents and intelligence products to give your client the actionable intelligence and context they need. If you have strong technical skills and a problem-solving mindset, we have an opportunity to use those skills to support our warfighters and inform our nation's leaders. As a technical editor on our team, you’ll help your client by reviewing intelligence products for proper grammar, punctuation, and syntax, as well as for logic, clarity, and consistency. You will ensure that style and format conform to agency publication standards and that language presentation is consistent with prescribed style guides and specialized vocabulary of subject matter fields. You will amend draft tables, tone boxes, and graphics to ensure the content supports and is consistent with the accompanying text. You will ensure proper classification markings in accordance with IC guidance and work with authors to revise products for narrative organization, and negotiates further revisions as needed. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

Knowledge of the DIA Style Manual for Intelligence Production
Knowledge of DNI or DIA sourcing requirements and Security Markings
Ability to develop high-quality deliverables tailored to senior policymakers or defense stakeholders, including complex written products and briefings
TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of experience as a technical editor in the IC, or 7+ years of experience as a technical editor in the IC in lieu of a degree

Nice To Haves

Experience editing DIA products
Experience editing technical cyber related materials

Responsibilities

reviewing intelligence products for proper grammar, punctuation, and syntax, as well as for logic, clarity, and consistency
ensuring that style and format conform to agency publication standards and that language presentation is consistent with prescribed style guides and specialized vocabulary of subject matter fields
amending draft tables, tone boxes, and graphics to ensure the content supports and is consistent with the accompanying text
ensuring proper classification markings in accordance with IC guidance and work with authors to revise products for narrative organization, and negotiates further revisions as needed