Consumer Health Writer/Editor

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• General Information Job Code: CAT-WE-04T Location: Remote - Bethesda, Maryland, United States Employee Type: Exempt, Full-Time Telework: Full-time Clearance: NACI Salary Range: $88,626.66 - $101,920.65 per year Position Overview Are you passionate about elevating content into clear compelling narratives that resonate?
• As a Consumer Health Writer/Editor with Ripple Effect, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our success on our work with the NIH Office of AIDS Research!
• Your work will provide advanced technical leadership for complex writing initiatives, overseeing content approaches, quality standards, and compliance.
• You will independently manage timelines, budgets, and documentation while mentoring team members and guiding best practices.
• In addition, you will lead content discussions, analyze complex information, and build trusted client relationships.
• by exercising broad guidance, expert judgment and autonomy in execution and decision making.
• Responsibilities: Technical Execution: Oversees the production of technical reports, manuals, and other documents, reviewing team deliverables for quality and responsiveness and recommending improvements to meet project scope and requirements.
• Writing Activities: Plans and oversees production of major documentation sets, assigns writing tasks, aligns content with scope and stakeholder needs, monitors schedules/budgets, and guides team output.
• Editing Activities: Sets and enforces editorial standards, conducts final level reviews, implements corrective actions for content issues, ensures regulatory/contract compliance, and manages quality accountability.
• Communication: Leads communications for documentation projects, preparing and reviewing written materials (e.g., status reports, technical memos) and guiding team members on effective communication practices to ensure clarity and consistency.
• Schedule & Timelines: Monitors and reports on writing/editing project progress, ensures deliverables are completed on schedule, and provides updates to stakeholders to keep all parties aligned and informed.
• Quality Management: Maintains and enforces editorial standards for all technical documents, ensuring the completeness, timeliness, and overall quality of finished products and implementing corrective actions to address any content issues.
• Data Analysis: Leverages analytical insights to evaluate documentation needs and content effectiveness, interpreting feedback or data to inform improvements in writing processes and deliverables.
• Regulatory & Contractual Compliance: Ensures consistent application of organizational policies in all documentation and verifies that technical publications adhere to relevant regulatory and contractual requirements.
• Documentation & Publication: Leads the development of technical documentation and publication processes, establishing clear procedures and ensuring all written materials are comprehensive, accurate, and accessible to those who need them.
• Problem Solving & Continuous Improvement: Drives continuous improvement in editorial workflows by proactively identifying process inefficiencies or content gaps, implementing creative solutions to documentation challenges, and streamlining team workflows.
• Business Relations: Builds strong relationships with clients and internal stakeholders by ensuring documentation meets their needs and by coordinating cross-departmental efforts to produce high-quality written materials in support of organizational goals.
• Supervision: Works independently with broad guidance supporting increasingly complex tasks.
• Uses experience to manage complex tasks and mentor others, consults supervisor as needed.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
• Requirements Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree 6+ years of relevant experience 2 years of medical or consumer health writing and copy-editing experience Basic Requirements Ability to produce complex technical writing and documentation related to medical or consumer health.

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