Enhancement Specialist - Editor (4-Senior)

Job Type: Full- Time

Workplace Type: Onsite

Clearance: TS/SCI W/CI Poly

Must be a U.S. Citizen

Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401k matching, generous PTO, paid holidays, professional training opportunities, and even pet insurance to ensure your furry friends are cared for too.

Job Summary

Castalia Systems is seeking a Senior Enhancement Specialist to join our team. The Sr. Enhancement Specialist will provide production management and methodologist services as described below and in accordance with the most recent customer processes and policies. The contractor shall be responsible for providing all support services and products required to complete the detailed description of work and responsibilities as described herein.

Roles and Responsibilities

A qualified candidate will perform the following duties and responsibilities, but are not limited to:

• Review, analyze, and correct draft material for clarity, consistency, style, format, logic, and organization, as well as grammar, word usage, spelling, and punctuation.
• Review products dealing with complex analytical intelligence Issues and provide guidance to geospatial intelligence analysts and other editors regarding logic, clarity, comprehensiveness, relevance, and brevity.
• Verify classifications provided by analysts or direct them to classification management teams.
• Support the production and dissemination of finished GEOINT products by working with analytic customers (authors) to determine the appropriate reporting mechanism for conveying GEOINT to Client's external customers, editing intelligence documents, and managing the production of Client GEOINT products.
• Work closely with analysts, from the early stages of manuscript development through the entire publishing process, (includes final reviews of text, graphics, and other formats for Client Intelligence products) to help them organize and refine analytic content into an effective product.
• Edit documents and manage the production of Client intelligence reporting In the current suite of Client product types and briefing materials, visual aids, and other products, as required.
• Work on multiple projects with simultaneous deadlines under fast-paced conditions; must be available to perform duties in a multiple-shift 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 many hardcopy, softcopy, and web formats and ensure compatibility with a variety of computer systems and telecommunications networks.
• Coordinate and disseminate finished intelligence products as required.
• Provide quality control in accordance with Client policy and standards for intelligence products.
• Attend regularly scheduled editor and production support meetings and stay current with ongoing production support initiatives.
• Review product metadata for completeness.
• Demonstrate customer service excellence by clearly and concisely communicating work status, methods, Instructions, problems, requirements, options, and concerns with team members, managers, and customers within Client and the Intelligence Community.
• Participate in meetings with customers, team members, Contractors, and others to exchange information, make decisions, and/or provide updates.
• Support the office and other branches in accomplishing the agency's overall mission, including expediting crisis work, special assignments, and ad hoc tasking on variously scheduled arrangements.
• Support analytic customers (authors) by tagging GEOINT products with relevant keywords and information.
• Support Client's efforts to enhance the discoverability of data and information by working with GEOINT content and analytic customers (authors) in the review of standard and non-standard products to determine the appropriate metadata and keyword tagging and editing metadata as appropriate.
• 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.
• Perform analytic production using tradecraft and intelligence writing and standards

Required Qualifications:

• At least ten years of relevant professional editing experience.
• A bachelor's degree in a field related (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 cou