Senior Technical Editor/Writer

Job Title: Senior Technical Editor/Writer 
 
Company: BLN24 
 
About Us: We find strength in teamwork-a better you is a better us 
BLN24 is an award-winning Management Consulting Firm that supports the U.S. Federal Government in successfully achieving their mission and goals. Our service and solutions delivery start with understanding each client’s end-state, and then seamlessly integrating within each Agency’s organization to improve and enhance strategic and technical operations and deployments. 
 
Position Overview: 
The Senior Technical Editor/Writer serves as the senior editorial lead for executive, scientific, policy, programmatic, and public-facing communications supporting a federal public health program. The role provides advanced writing, substantive editing, copyediting, quality assurance, and editorial oversight for executive correspondence, memoranda, briefings, reports, policy documents, presentations, talking points, websites, blogs, campaigns, and multimedia content. This position ensures communications are scientifically accurate, concise, accessible, strategically aligned, and appropriate for their intended audiences. The Senior Technical Editor/Writer also establishes editorial consistency, advises staff on tone and style, manages complex review cycles, mentors writers, and supports rapid-turnaround assignments for senior leadership and high-priority public health initiatives. 

 
Key Responsibilities: 

• Lead writing, substantive editing, copyediting, proofreading, and final quality review of high-visibility communications. 

• Develop executive correspondence, memoranda, briefing papers, executive summaries, reports, talking points, Q&A documents, and presentations. 

• Translate complex scientific, medical, technical, policy, and program information for executive and public audiences. 

• Review products for accuracy, structure, tone, readability, accessibility, consistency, and strategic alignment. 

• Provide editorial oversight for websites, blogs, reports, campaign products, webinar materials, and multimedia scripts. 

• Coordinate with subject matter experts to verify terminology, data, citations, recommendations, and policy statements. 

• Develop and maintain style guides, templates, editorial procedures, quality-control checklists, and writing standards. 

• Advise project staff on voice, tone, messaging, audience considerations, and editorial risk. 

• Mentor writers and editors and provide constructive feedback and editorial direction. 

• Manage multi-level review, comment reconciliation, version control, and Government clearance processes. 

• Support strategic communication plans, literature reviews, academic manuscripts, and evidence-based policy documents. 

• Provide rapid-response editorial support for outbreaks, policy changes, breaking news, and executive priorities. 
   

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in English, journalism, communications, technical writing, public health, life sciences, public policy, or a related field. 

• At least 10 years of progressively responsible professional writing and editing experience. 

• At least five years supporting executive, scientific, technical, public health, policy, or Government communications. 

• Experience serving as a senior editor, lead writer, managing editor, or comparable editorial authority. 

• Extensive experience producing executive briefings, memoranda, reports, summaries, correspondence, presentations, or talking points. 

• Demonstrated ability to edit complex scientific, medical, technical, or policy information for diverse audiences. 

• Advanced knowledge of grammar, structure, tone, voice, readability, and editorial quality assurance. 

• Strong command of plain-language principles and Section 508 accessibility requirements. 

• Experience developing or applying style guides, templates, editorial procedures, and quality-control standards. 

• Ability to manage complex review cycles, conflicting feedback, and rapid-turnaround assignments. 

 
Preferred Qualifications: 

• Master’s degree in public health, communications, journalism, English, technical writing, public policy, or a related field. 

• Experience supporting executive leadership within a federal health, scientific, or civilian Government organization. 

• Knowledge of infectious diseases, HIV, vaccines, immunization, viral hepatitis, or related public health