Senior Copy Editor Jobs in Springfield, VA (NOW HIRING)

Position Objective: Provide services as a Senior Editor/Enhancement Specialist in support of the overall functions of an Intelligence Agency supporting GAP Solutions, Inc.
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Review, analyze, and correct draft material for clarity, consistency, style, format, logic, and organization, as well as grammar, word usage, spelling, and punctuation.
• Review correspondence products and provide guidance to subject matter experts, tasking coordinators, and other editors regarding logic, clarity, comprehensiveness, relevance, and brevity.
• Work on multiple projects with simultaneous deadlines under fast-paced conditions; must be available to perform duties in a high-pressure environment, as necessary.
• Perform structural, substantive, and copy edits of analytical manuscripts for organization, completeness, logic, accuracy, and compliance with language, style, formatting.
• Produce, process, and disseminate documents in different hardcopy, softcopy, and web formats and ensure compatibility with a variety of computer systems and telecommunications networks.
• Provide quality control in accordance with customer policy and standards for correspondence.
• Attend regularly scheduled editor and tasking support meetings and stay current with ongoing action items and Front Office Support Packets (FOSPs).
• Review tasking and FOSP metadata for completeness and correctness.
• Demonstrate customer service excellence by clearly and concisely communicating work status, methods, instructions, problems, requirements, options, and concerns with team members, managers, and customers.
• Support the division in accomplishing its overall mission, including expediting crisis work, special assignments, and ad hoc tasking on variously scheduled arrangements.
• Provide oversight & direction to lower-level contractor employees on this task order.
• Perform quality control and quality assurance checks on lower-level contractor employees work on this task order.
Basic Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI with CI Poly
• US Citzenship
• At least ten years of relevant professional-editing experience. Relevant education may count towards meeting this requirement but not preferred.
• A bachelor's degree in a related field (e.g. Journalism or English) to the support services may count for up to four years of this experience.

• A master's degree in a field related to the support services may count for up to two additional years of this experience.
• Superior and demonstrable proficiency in English language mechanics and vocabulary.
• Knowledge of government-mandated plain language principles.
• Strong computer skills and demonstrated proficiency on PC platforms.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe Acrobat.
• Working knowledge of electronic publishing software such as Adobe lnDesign and Adobe FrameMaker.
• Achieve 80 percent or higher on a diagnostic assessment, which will be administered by the customer. Should a lower score be achieved, the government may consider waiving the requirement, at the request of the contractor.
Preferred Qualifications:

• At least 10 years of professional relevant editing experience along with an undergraduate or graduate degree in Journalism or English OR at least 15 years of professional editing experience without the specified degree.
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent writing skills.
• Familiarity with the US Intelligence Community--specifically, imagery collection and exploitation.

*This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required by this position.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
GAP Solutions provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need an accommodation to apply for a job, email us at recruiting@gapsi.com. You will need to reference the requisition number of the position in which you are interested. Your message will be routed to the appropriate recruiter who will assist you. Please note, this email address is only to be used for those individuals who need an accommodation to apply for a job. Emails for any other reason or those that do not include a requisition number will not be returned.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.