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Celestar Holdings Corporation · 4 months ago

Senior Technical Editing Support - USACIC

Fort Meade, MD

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

12+ years exp

Celestar Corporation is seeking a Senior Technical Editing Support to support the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command under the United States Army Counterintelligence Command Analytical Support Contract. The role involves working with analysts and editors to ensure that analytic products meet publication standards and maintain clarity and consistency for diverse audiences.

EducationInformation Technology

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

Responsibilities

The Technical Editing Support shall work directly with analysts, fellow editors, and web developers to ensure that all analytic products conform to product templates, meet requirements of Intelligence Community Directives and ACIC publication standards, and maintain consistency and readability for diverse audiences

Prior to the finished CI research analysis being published, the Technical Editing Support shall provide editorial support to contractor analysts writing CI analytic products

Responsible for independently editing, designing, and managing the contents of the finished multimedia intelligence publications

Post publications on external-facing ACIC. Reviews intelligence products for proper grammar, punctuation, and syntax, as well as for logic, clarity, and consistency

Ensures that style and format conform to agency publication standards and that language presentation is consistent with prescribed style guides and specialized vocabulary of subject matter fields

Amends draft tables, tone boxes, and graphics to ensure the content supports and is consistent with the accompanying text

Ensure proper classification markings in accordance with IC guidance

Works with authors to revise products for narrative organization, and negotiates further revisions as needed

Ensure final documentation are written with adequate clarity for the intended audience, arranged logically, grammatically correct, adhere to accepted rules of style, contain the proper security classification caveats and markings, as directed by national/DoD/DA guidance, and are formatted IAW established ACIC policies and standards

Modify templates developed for 15 existing product lines and sub-product lines for products that range from two to more than 100 pages in length

Product lines include items such as: ASR, (five sub-product lines, each requiring a unique template), MDCITA, Army Annual Threat Assessment, ACIC Annual Threat Assessment, FPN, CIN, CI Cyber Notes (CICN), and Visual Information Products

Provide analysts with expert technical knowledge and advice in planning, coordinating, and the time sequencing involved in the steps required to produce a publication

Represent ACIC at meetings with Government contractors, personnel from DA, National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC), and National level intelligence agencies to discuss and solve technical issues involving the publication of final intelligence products, dissemination on electronic media, and conforming standards with Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS)

Qualification

Technical EditingDesktop PublishingAdobe AcrobatHTMLMicrosoft Office SuiteGraphics TechniquesXMLCommunication Skills

Required

Active TS/SCI clearance

High School Diploma with 20 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years

Associates Degree with 16 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years

Bachelors Degree with 14 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years

Masters Degree or higher with 12 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years

Two years of experience using Desktop Publishing, basic graphics techniques, Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Extensible Markup Language (XML), and Microsoft Office Suite (Intermediate Word, Excel and PowerPoint)