Senior Technical Editing Support Specialist

Senior
Technical Editing Support Specialist

Location:
Fort Meade / Linthicum, MD (onsite)

Clearance
Requirement: Active TS/SCI; CI-poly eligibility as directed

Salary
Range: $120,000 - $180,000

Job
Description:

Mission
Essential is seeking a Sr Technical Editor to serve as the senior editor for
serialized counterintelligence (CI) and counterterrorism (CT) analytic
products. Ensure all finished intelligence complies with agency publication
standards, style guides, security classification marking rules, and DoD/DA/IC
directives; manage templates across product lines; coordinate scheduling and
dissemination; and represent the Government customer in interagency forums.

Key
Responsibilities:

* Review
and finalize intelligence products for grammar, punctuation, clarity, logic,
consistency, and adherence to classification caveats/portion markings, ensuring
alignment with national/DoD/DA guidance and ACIC standards.

* Maintain,
modify, and improve templates for ~15 product lines and sub-product lines,
supporting products that range from 2 to 100+ pages.

* Plan
and supervise editorial workflows that support production of 500+ formal
analytic products annually; coordinate schedules and dissemination with
authors, editors, web developers, and Government stakeholders to meet
weekly/periodic output requirements.

* Amend
tables, tone boxes, and graphics so they are consistent with the accompanying
text and presentation standards; ensure proper layout and metadata for external-facing
ACIC publishing.

* Represent
Government Customer in meetings with internal and national-level intelligence
agencies to resolve technical publication issues, electronic dissemination
standards, and to conform with DoDIIS requirements.

* Collaborate
with authors and SME stakeholders to refine narrative structure, scope, and
purpose; research content and enforce IC style/vocabulary consistency (ICDs
206/209/501/710, as applicable to agency practice), negotiating further
revisions as needed to achieve publication quality.

* Edit,
design, and manage content for multimedia intelligence publications
(internal/external), ensuring formatting and electronic dissemination meet
established policies and external-facing site requirements.

Minimum
Qualifications

* TS/SCI
clearance (active); CI-poly eligibility

* Demonstrated
experience reviewing and finalizing IC/DoD intelligence products with
classification and style guide compliance, and ability to formalize final
products IAW established policies.

* Proven
capability to modify templates across ~15 product lines, producing items from
2-100+ pages while meeting weekly/periodic cadences (e.g., ASR and other
serialized products).

* Ability
to coordinate production and dissemination for high-volume outputs (e.g., ~500+
formal products/year), working across editorial and technical teams.

Minimum
Education Qualifications:

* High
school diploma and 20 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of
the experience in the last two years OR

* Associate
degree and 16 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience
in the last two years OR

* Bachelor's
degree and 14 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the
experience within the last 2 years OR

* Master's
degree and 12 Years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the
experience within the last 2 years.