Technical Writer
This is a remote position. This candidate will perform substantive technical-writing, documentation, editing, content-development, and knowledge-management work supporting Health IT implementation, sustainment, governance, operations, training, and user understanding. The Technical Writer develops and maintains clear, accurate, standardized, audience-appropriate technical and operational content. Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop, write, edit, format, and maintain technical, operational, program, training,
governance, and user documentation.
- Develop standard operating procedures, work instructions, user guides, reference
materials, technical reports, process documentation, manuals, knowledge articles, and similar work products.
- Translate complex technical, clinical, operational, and program information into clear
content appropriate for intended audiences.
- Review source information, interview subject-matter experts, gather requirements, and
independently develop documentation from available technical and operational information.
- Standardize document structure, terminology, formatting, and content to improve
consistency, readability, usability, and maintainability.
- Review and edit Contractor-prepared documentation for clarity, accuracy,
completeness, grammar, organization, consistency, and compliance with applicable templates, governance, security, accessibility (Section 508), and records-management requirements.
- Develop diagrams, process flows, tables, graphics, or other explanatory content as
appropriate.
- Maintain version control for Contractor-prepared documentation, use Government-
approved document repositories, and support document-review and approval workflows in accordance with applicable records-management and security requirements.
- Maintain documentation inventories, revision histories, and content-status information.
- Support implementation, training, change-management, transition, knowledge-transfer,
and sustainment activities through development and maintenance of required documentation.
- Coordinate documentation activities with applicable technical, clinical, program,
training, cybersecurity, data, and operational stakeholders.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience developing technical, operational, procedural, or user documentation for complex IT or Health IT environments.
- Excellent writing, editing, grammar, organization, and information-structuring skills.
- Ability to translate technical subject matter into clear material for technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Proficiency with common document-development, collaboration, publishing, and content-management tools.
- Ability to manage multiple documentation products and revisions simultaneously.
- Experience with healthcare, Health IT, Federal IT, or similarly complex regulated environments is preferred.
- U.S Citizenship Required
- DHS Public Trust Required