Location: China Lake, CA

Status: Full Time

Duties and Responsibilities:

The candidate will provide direct composition, writing, and editorial support.
The candidate will be responsible for composing various technical and administrative documents for public release in accordance with Navy standards and policies.
The candidate will also be responsible for performing copy/writing/editing and quality control of various technical and administrative publications.
The candidate will be responsible for research and technical discussion with engineers and technicians to gather information for and to develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
The candidate will also ensure that all products are completed in accordance with Associated Press (AP) style guides, using proper punctuation, spelling, grammar, structure, and style

Requirements:

• Due to the sensitivity of customer related requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required to obtain government granted security clearance.BA/ BS degree in Journalism, Organizational Communication or related field.
• 2-4 years of experience with composing, writing, and editing a variety of technical and administrative publications.
• Experience with Microsoft Word and the ability to apply Microsoft Word advanced features to develop and edit documents is required.
• Experience with generating art work with various applications (Inkscape, Adobe, etc.)
• Experience with Adobe Acrobat and the ability to create, manipulate and review documents within Adobe Acrobat.
• Previous experience with copy editing a variety of technical and administrative publications and must possess the ability to employ proper English usage, grammar, syntax, and spelling.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills required.
  Ability to maintain a high-volume workload that includes a wide-variety of complex assignments.

Desired Skills:

Previous Government experience; Familiar with AP style writing/editing; Experience writing public release news articles