TECHNICAL EDITOR

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You will serve as a Technical Editor in the Chief of Naval Operations Division of NAVAVNWARDEVCEN.

TO QUALIFY FOR GS-11: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-9 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Complies with industry standard writing style preferences and military guidelines.

Utilizes specialized multi-service specific vocabulary, abbreviations, and terminology within the specialized fields of electronics and avionics.

Edits both frame- and page-based publications for readability, active voice, sentence structure, elimination of wordiness, slang and jargon, gender, and third-person usages.

Reviews phrasing, word change, and syntax. Formats styles, multilevel list, and automated bulleted and numbered lists to provide a cohesive page layout.

Checks punctuation, spelling and grammar, and makes sure tenses agree. Organizes comments, suggestions, queries, and notes from the subject matter expert(s) (SME).

Designs new and/or edits existing publication templates to improve document structure, formatting, and consistency. Proofreads technical material.

Prints, duplicates, and reproduces tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) and training material in the form of on-demand, cost-effective short print runs in a manner that reduces errors and limits wasted materials.

TO QUALIFY FOR GS-9: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-7 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Complies with industry standard writing style preferences and military guidelines.

Checks punctuation, spelling, style of capitalization, accepted English usage, and grammatical structure.

Restructures content order to make information more understandable without deviating from the original meaning. Proofreads technical material.

Prints, duplicates, and reproduces tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) and training material in the form of on-demand, cost-effective short print runs in a manner that reduces errors and limits wasted materials.

Generates a reproduction assembly sheet form, specification sheet, and distribution list for production cost estimates.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR) for the 1083 Technical Writing and Editing Series: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1000/technical-writing-and-editing-series-1083/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. Major Duties:

• You will organize comments, suggestions, queries, and notes from subject matter experts.
• You will establish the structure for the transmission of information by facilitating electronic distribution of documents.
• You will maintain distribution links, reorganize platform folder structure, and archive superseded material.
• You will ensure the timely delivery of written and visual content.
• You will design new and/or edit existing publication templates to improve document structure, formatting, and consistency.
• You will coordinate the inclusion of illustrations and tabular material to augment the publication.
• You will update visual elements such as graphs, flow charts, figures, and illustrations.
• You will develop front matter (title and content page) and back matter (notes, appendixes, illustration log, and captions).
• You will edit the overall publication for readability, active voice, sentence structure, elimination of wordiness, slang and jargon, gender, and third-person usages.
• You will review phrasing, word change, and syntax.
• You will format text heading and body styles, borders, equations, and automated bulleted and numbered lists to provide a cohesive page layout.
• You will maintain document consistency, logical flow of information, and appropriate grouping of context.
• You will confirm tables and illustrations have retained their original intent and that their visual elements are aesthetically pleasing and of a high print quality.
• You will conduct proofreading to check punctuation, spelling and grammar, and make sure tenses agree.
• You will utilize specialized multi-service specific vocabulary, abbreviations, and terminology within the specialized fields of electronics, weapons systems, and avionics.
• You will conduct a preliminary review, art review, and paste-up review to resolve discrepancies between text and visual elements.
• You will print, duplicate, and reproduce split-run publications in the form of digital printing and electronic media for academic courseware, technical manuals, aviation weapons schools' tactics manuals, and other supporting training curricula.
• You will make informed decisions about the size, shape, look, and feel of the finished product, to include assembling the required number of copies, ensuring that each is bound and trimmed according to the customer's request.
• You will create universal electronic media files that are suitable for display on any device and to the extent and file size that it can be easily distributed and accessed by the fleet, indeterminate of bandwidth or location.