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Celestar Corporation is seeking a Senior Technical Editing Support to support The U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) under the United States Army Counterintelligence Command (USACIC) Analytical Support Contract. The primary place of performance will be Fort Meade, MD. If interested and meet the qualifications, we encourage you to apply for this rewarding and impactful opportunity.
ANTICIPATED AWARD: July 2026
ANTICIPATED START: July 2026
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE: 1 Base Year + 4 Option Years
LOCATION: Fort Meade, MD
SALARY: $140,000-$147,000
CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT: Active TS/SCI
About Us:
Celestar, a proud Veteran-Owned company, offers highly competitive salaries and benefits. Our comprehensive benefits package includes company-paid employee and family dental insurance, employee health insurance, life insurance, and disability coverage. Additionally, we provide a 401(k)-retirement plan with company matching, paid holidays, and personal time off.
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).
Required qualifications/skills:
• Minimum education and years of experience requirements for the following:
o High School Diploma: 20 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years
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o Associates Degree: 16 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
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o Bachelors Degree: 14 years of relevant experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
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o Masters Degree or higher: 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).
Come on board with a company that Values its Employees!
Celestar Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Celestar Corporation prohibits discrimination, harassment, and retaliation in employment based on race; color; religion; genetic information; national origin; sex (including same-sex); sexual orientation; gender identity; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; age; disability or handicap; citizenship status; marital status; service member/protected veteran status; or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.