The Role
Creates, edits, reviews, maintains, and controls technical documentation for software, systems, hardware, operations, testing, and end users. Produces installation, configuration, code, procedure, service, training, and user manuals; documents data flows and definitions; coordinates peer reviews and formal deliverables; maintains document records, archives, formats, and version control. Uses Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Visio, and related publishing tools.
Summary Generated by Built In
Description of Task to be Performed:
AnaVation is seeking a Technical Writer to join our team and support our mission critical customer in Reston, VA. As our Technical Writer you would provide coordination and authoring of technical writing and editing to all phases of documentation control and deployment. Responsibilities include the preparation, review, revision, and maintenance of technical documents, including software and systems engineering, system operations, testing, and user documentation. The Technical Writer composes and edits technical documentation for all the project’s hardware and software to include installation, configuration, code documentation and how-to documentation such as end-user guides for capabilities. The Technical Writer will also provide field, data definition, and data flow documentation and will format technical publications from pamphlets, technical drawings, and consultations with technical personnel. This role requires use of multiple word processing and presentation tools such as MS Word, PowerPoint, and Visio etc.
Required Qualifications:
- Clearance: Active TS/SCI Clearance with Polygraph
- Education & Years of Experience: Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of experience related to specific functional area
- Certifications: Active certification for IAT Level II (e.g. CompTIA Security+) by program onboarding date.
- Demonstrated Experience and knowledge:
- Strong technical writing (content generation, interviews with technical teams, drafts, and formal document reviews).
- Understanding and experience with document version control: formal documentation drafting, review, finalization, document control, tracking, and reporting.
- Strong technical editing (reviewing and editing content for clarity and effectiveness of message, as well as proper grammar and formatting)
- Experience writing and editing technical documents such as technical procedure manuals, user manuals, programming manuals, service manuals, operational specifications, as well as training materials to communicate clearly and effectively to a wide range of audiences.
- Experience organizing complex integrated document delivery with formal contract deliverables delivered on schedule.
- Experience coordinating quality peer review of materials.
- Experience cataloging documents, maintaining records, files, electronic media and archiving of information for publications.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Desktop publishing experience.
- Experience quickly creating technical drawings, graphics, and figures.
- Experience with document formats, styles, and technical writing style guides.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- 4 years of experience related to the specific functional area
- Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
- Active IAT Level II certification, such as CompTIA Security+, by program onboarding
- Strong technical writing experience, including content generation, technical interviews, drafting, and formal document reviews
- Experience with document version control, drafting, review, finalization, tracking, reporting, and document control
- Strong technical editing skills, including clarity, grammar, formatting, and message effectiveness
- Experience writing and editing technical procedure, user, programming, service, operations, and training documentation
- Experience coordinating complex document delivery and scheduled contract deliverables
- Experience coordinating quality peer reviews
- Experience cataloging documents and maintaining records, files, electronic media, and publication archives
- Desktop publishing experience
- Experience creating technical drawings, graphics, and figures
- Experience with document formats, styles, and technical writing style guides
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The Company
What We Do
AnaVation is a trusted partner that delivers high-value, cost-effective solutions to solve our customers’ most complex technical and analytical problems. AnaVation believes that the future of securing, collecting, processing, and analyzing cyber data will require the development of advanced ANAlytical technologies derived via the innoVATION of current and future technologies. AnaVation believes in the “Idea of the Possible” — that it is possible for our experts, partnering with our customers in the right environment, to create innovative technical solutions that expand our customers’ capabilities. We want to do two things for our customers. We want to resolve existing challenges and we want to prepare them for the future. Our technical expertise and innovative engineering culture enable us to do those things.
