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Health Services Research Editor

Clearance Level None Category Technical Documentation Location West Des Moines, the USA

Requisition Type: Regular

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to work alongside federal civilian agencies. Make an impact by providing services that help the government ensure the well being of U.S. citizens.

Job Description

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Health Services Research Editor supporting Federal contracts and health services research. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Health Services Research Editor you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on Health Services Research Editor joining our team to ensure our manuscripts for publication are compliant with all Government guidelines (including Section 508), style guides, written in plain language and suitable for public release.

HOW A HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH EDITOR WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

Researches, prepares, and edits technical documents, manuscripts for publication, plain language communications and program reports.
Analyze information related to a specific health services topics to produce reports or in-depth articles for clients or target audiences.
Work closely with multiple research teams to ensure management of project timelines and editorial schedule.

Check all materials for spelling and grammatical errors as well as overall style, organization and cohesiveness in compliance with all Federal requirements.
Verify contents, references and edit copy to ensure accuracy, consistency and clarity.
Ensure adherence to all Federal guidelines, style guides and preferences.
Work as part of a larger team to deliver work products for Federal contracts targeting diverse audiences in support of improving care and access to care, and reducing health disparities.
Apply your superb research skills and the ability to translate findings from research data into meaningful, understandable content.
Stay informed of new technology and identify ways to improve the editorial process.
Actively support the advancement of GDIT's diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science in English, Journalism, Creative Writing, Communications or a similar field
Required Experience: 10+ years of related experience as a health editor or writer

Required Technical Skills: Knowledge and understanding of Federal government guidelines, including the Federal plain language guidelines at https://plainlanguage.gov/guidelines and CMS Brand Strategy and Graphic Standards Guide at https://www.cms.gov/About- CMS/Agency-Information/CMS-Brand-Identity/index.
Security Clearance Level: None
Required Skills and Abilities: Ability to work across a team of inter-disciplinary professionals. · Ability to read and understand technical materials, including research findings and analytic papers with the intent to translate the “science” into plain language.
Preferred Skills:
Location: Remote
US Citizenship Required

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