Senior Technical Writer
Skills
Educational MaterialsEnglishHealthHealthcare DeliveryJournalismMicrosoft WordPFS
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in English communications journalism or related field
- Approximately five years of professional writing editing or technical communications experience
- Ability to write accurately for both technical and non-technical audiences
- Familiarity with structured content content reuse modular writing metadata tagging document templates CMS collaboration platforms reference-management tools and workflow automation
- Ability to build repeatable writing workflows and maintain audit-ready traceability
- Comfort evaluating emerging tools for fit risk security usability accessibility and quality-control burden
- Strong understanding of technical terminology healthcare delivery systems and health communications principles
- Experience developing or editing technical reports clinical guidance educational materials web content program documentation training content or executive-level briefing materials
- Exceptional command of grammar structure tone plain language and document organization
- Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple deliverables deadlines review cycles and stakeholder inputs
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word PowerPoint Excel Teams SharePoint and collaborative document review tools
- Authorized to work in the U.S. indefinitely without sponsorship
- Ability to obtain a Public Trust
Nice to have
- Plain-language communication
- Detail-oriented
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Audit-ready mindset
- Healthcare familiarity
- Structured content
Day to day
- Develop, edit, and maintain clear technical documentation and program materials for federal health programs.
- Collaborate with subject matter experts, clinicians, researchers, program managers, and federal stakeholders to validate content and align deliverables with program goals.
- Support content strategy, version control, quality assurance, and document management across multiple concurrent projects while helping coordinate design sessions and final documentation updates.