Editor

Quick Facts

• Role: Editor

Description

The Editor drafts, edits, and revises agency communications and publications to ensure accuracy, clarity, and overall quality. The role coordinates with authors and subject matter experts to apply consistent voice, style, tone, and terminology, while performing fact checking and verifying technical information, references, statistics, charts, and data. The editor also ensures digital content meets Section 508 accessibility standards.

Responsibilities

• Work with experts to draft, edit, and revise documents while maintaining editorial and visual identity standards
• Collaborate with authors, writers, subject matter experts, and stakeholders to review and prepare accurate material on time
• Make substantial structural edits and establish a unified tone across official publications
• Maintain consistency in style, tone, and terminology across and within publications
• Adhere to evidence standards, manage fact checking, and verify accuracy of information
• Verify technical information, statistics, charts, data, and references
• Edit and proofread for accuracy, grammar, spelling, punctuation, style, and consistency
• Ensure digital content meets Section 508 standards (Rehabilitation Act)

Requirements

• 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to NB-IV (GS-11)
• Editing experience ensuring content is accurate and clear for the target audience
• Accessibility best-practices experience to comply with Section 508
• Must be a U.S. citizen or U.S. national
• Complete personnel vetting (background investigation) and enroll in Continuous Vetting
• Complete FBI Rap Back enrollment
• Complete a one-year probationary period
• Complete a Declaration for Federal Employment
• Complete Personal Identity Verification (PIV) using two forms of identification (Form I-9)
• Salary provided via Direct Deposit/Electronic Funds Transfer
• Occasional travel to conferences and/or training

Benefits

A comprehensive U.S. government employee benefits package is available; eligibility depends on the position type.