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SEEKING TECHNICAL WRITER
FULL-TIME, ONSITE IN DC

IMMEDIATE STAFFING - CONDUCTING INTERVIEWS NEXT WEEK

QUALIFIED CANDIDATES SEND RESUME, WRITING SAMPLES, PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES, AND DESIRED RATE TO INFO@JCC-LLC.COM

Seeking a multifaceted candidate who can perform independent research, review technical documentation, and efficiently interview technical experts to translate highly technical information into resonant customer-facing documentation and products for diverse audiences of varying technical literacy. These products might include user manuals, procedures, reports, how-to guides, specifications, presentations, and bulletins. Technical documentation to include text and graphics created by our candidate is reliably accurate, complete, and consistently aligns with established writing, formatting, and style standards and guidelines.

In addition to meticulous technical writing skills, our ideal candidate has an eye for making documents, graphics, and presentations visually stunning. The ideal candidate is very familiar with built-in formatting and headings functions within MS Word and takes pleasure in using them to create consistent repeatable templates and documentation. 

Preferred but not required, what sets our ideal candidate apart from the average technical writer is their business analysis acumen. The ideal candidate is a strategically minded, technically competent problem solver and information synthesizer who writes extremely well. Someone with a penchant for finding and squashing inefficiencies and who can straddle business and technical domains. Relevant experience includes corralling stakeholders of diverse backgrounds, decomposing complex problems in the near and far terms, robustly capturing business and user requirements, and translating those requirements into systems requirements and specifications. 

If the following list sounds like you, then you are a great candidate:

• You value quality in your work above all else
• You’ve been called a perfectionist more than once
• Visuals, headings, and titles that aren’t consistent or aligned correctly give you heartburn
• You are very fond of the Oxford Comma and quietly judge others who don’t use it
• You've awakened at 2 a.m. more than once because you realized you forgot to refresh a Table of Contents
• You know how to handle difficult or unresponsive stakeholders
• You are relentless about closing information gaps, by any means necessary

Requirements

• US Citizen
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance and pass a background check
• 2 years of experience at minimum, or a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a scientific or technical discipline
• Meticulous, borderline obsessive attention to detail required in writing
• Experience in information technology domain a plus
• Business analysis experience a plus
• Experience with Confluence and Jira a big plus

Position Details

• Full-time, 40 hours per week
• Onsite in Washington D.C.
• Paid as 1099 independent contractor
• Rate: Negotiable based on experience and interview

To Apply, Please Respond with:

• Your resume
• Two professional technical writing samples of your own work that showcase your technical writing and/or business analysis prowess
• Two professional references who have worked with you
• Preferred hourly rate as 1099 or preferred annual salary