Cleared Senior Technical Writer

Company Description

USM Business Systems Inc. is a quickly developing worldwide System Integrator, Software and Product Development, IT Outsourcing and Technology assistance supplier headquartered in Chantilly, VA with off-shore delivery centers in India. We offer world-class ability in giving most astounding quality and administrations through industry best practices planned to convey remarkable worth to our customers.

Utilizing our industry knowledge, administration service offering expertise and innovation abilities, we distinguish new business and innovation slants and create answers for help customers around the globe, giving top of the line solid and practical IT benefits which are cost effective services.

Established in 1999, the organization has corner qualities in building and dealing with a Business Oriented IT environment with rich involvement in technology innovation, ERP and CRM counselling, Product Engineering, Business Intelligence, Data Management, SOA, BPM, Data Warehousing, SharePoint Consulting and IT Infrastructure. Our other offerings include modified solutions and administrations in ERP, CRM, Enterprise architecture, offshore advisory services ,e-commerce, Social , Mobile, Cloud, Analytics (SMAC) and DevOps.

USM, a US ensured Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) is perceived as one of the fastest developing IT Systems Integrator in the Washington, DC zone. Most as of late, USM was positioned #9 on the rundown of the Top administrations organizations in the DC Metro Area – Washington Business Journal (2011). We are a project-driven firm that reliably meets the IT needs of our State and Government customers through development and business keenness.

Job Description

Job Title: Cleared Senior Technical Writer

Location: Fairfax, VA

Contract Length: This is 4.5 months to hire, however, have waited longer to convert. Set expectation at 9 months and if conversion occurs earlier it will just make us look good.

Interview Process: Phone, In Person, to Hire

Hourly Rate: $55/hour is the max for candidates at $100k.

Top Skills: 15 years work experience (this does not have to be in tech writing, but something literature/english related);

An Active Secret Clearance or Top Secret clearance required

Skills:

1. Strong Technical Writing Skills

2. Experience writing focused on SDLC lifecycle and what goes with that

3. Experience with graphics

Job Description for Proposal Technical Writer (Senior)

Responsibilities:

· Responsible for writing RFI and RFP responses across the health care marketplace to include government, pharmaceutical, payer and provider.

· Con­fers with internal and external stakeholders to estab­lish tech­ni­cal spec­i­fi­ca­tions for pro­pos­als and presentations.

· Respon­si­ble for writ­ing and edit­ing tech­ni­cal doc­u­men­ta­tion for the organization’s prod­ucts and offer­ings.

· As an inte­gral part of the cross-?functional nature of the con­sul­tancy indus­try, this per­son must have extensive research skills and the abil­ity to learn about the pro­posed products/ser­vices and trans­late what he/she learned into appropriate briefs for staff and pro­pos­als for customers.

· Must be able to build news arti­cles to reflect the company’s achieve­ments and functions.

· Must be able to orga­nize his/?her ideas and be able to translate tech­ni­cal terms into text that any reader can understand.

· Com­plete writ­ing assign­ments accord­ing to set stan­dards regard­ing order, clar­ity, con­cise­ness, style, and terminology.

· Man­age mul­ti­ple assign­ments simul­ta­ne­ously, while work­ing independently and with other writers.

· Select pho­tographs, draw­ings, sketches, dia­grams, and charts to illustrate material.

· Arrange for typ­ing, dupli­ca­tion, and dis­tri­b­u­tion of mate­r­ial if needed. Assist in lay­ing out mate­r­ial for publication.

· Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.

· May lead and direct the work of others.

· Typically reports to a manager or head of a unit/department.

· A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected

Education/Experience:

· Requires a bachelor's degree in English, journalism, or technical writing and a mini­mum of 15 years’ experience in health related proposal tech­ni­cal writ­ing to include writing/editing technical documentation, procedures, and guidelines.

· Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures.

· Must also have excel­lent ver­bal com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills.

· Must be flex­i­ble and have abil­ity to inter­act with all lev­els of cus­tomers or company’s staff.

· Must be a highly moti­vated indi­vid­ual able to grasp com­plex tech­nolo­gies, tools or knowl­edge and learn quickly.

· Must have a demon­strated abil­ity to work within tight deadlines. Advanced com­puter skills espe­cially Microsoft Word, Microsoft Pow­er­Point, Pho­to­shop and HTML expe­ri­ence is a must.

· A Secret Clearance is required.

· preferred: A sam­ple of prior work be pre­sented at interview

o (this isn't required because they know a lot of these samples will be confidential.)

Additional Information

If you are interested in above position, please share your updated resume to gmahesh(at)usmsystems(dot)com or can directly call me on 703-880-4184.