Senior Technical Editor

DESCRIPTION

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.

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.

Preferred Qualifications

· 12 years editorial experience (Master’s 12 or Bachelor’s 14) managing complex intelligence publishing pipelines; advanced knowledge of IC/DoD editorial standards and structured analytic tradecraft.

· Demonstrated leadership in interagency publishing standards (DA/NGIC/DoDIIS), and in building/editing multimedia content for external dissemination.

· Experience implementing two-pass QA/QC processes, redline/version control, and production dashboards tracking cycle time and defect rates.

*Position is contingent upon award