The Management, Business, and Information Services division, which provides editorial and publishing services for the agency, seeks an editor with extraordinary talentsomeone who can see both the forest and the trees, who can transform drafts if necessary and can catch small errors that others miss. The job involves making analytical and technical reports clear and accessible to a broad audience, including Members of Congress, Congressional staff, researchers, and other members of the public. The work routinely entails substantive editing, copyediting, and proofreading but also includes reviewing and reorganizing drafts, providing writing assistance, and rewriting portions of drafts.
The Management, Business, and Information Services division, which provides editorial and publishing services for the agency, seeks an editor with extraordinary talentsomeone who can see both the forest and the trees, who can transform drafts if necessary and can catch small errors that others miss. The job involves making analytical and technical reports clear and accessible to a broad audience, including Members of Congress, Congressional staff, researchers, and other members of the public. The work routinely entails substantive editing, copyediting, and proofreading but also includes reviewing and reorganizing drafts, providing writing assistance, and rewriting portions of drafts. Most of the work is done with Microsoft Office, but some is done in a desktop publishing system.
BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION OR CLEARANCE
EDITING SAMPLE
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION OR CLEARANCE
Qualifications
Candidates must have at least four years of experience in editing professional publications, similar to those produced at CBO, and a bachelors or advanced degree, preferably in English or another field within the humanities. They must have broad editorial skills ranging from guiding authors in writing and organizing drafts, to making complex and difficult drafts clear and graceful, to proofreading with a superior eye for detail. They must thoroughly understand English grammar and syntax and should be sensitive to style and to nuances of tone and meaning in writing and editing. Experience with quantitative information presented in tables and graphs is required. Strong interpersonal skills are important. So is the ability to be comfortable and effective in a process for composition and review that involves suggestions and changes from many people. Candidates must be able to handle pressing tasks under deadlines, and they must have the flexibility to work some evenings and weekends, as necessary.
TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Candidates must have at least four years of experience in editing professional publications, similar to those produced at CBO, and a bachelors or advanced degree, preferably in English or another field within the humanities. They must have broad editorial skillsranging from guiding authors in writing and organizing drafts, to making complex and difficult drafts clear and graceful, to proofreading with a superior eye for detail. They must thoroughly understand English grammar and syntax and should be sensitive to style and to nuances of tone and meaning in writing and editing. Experience with quantitative information presented in tables and graphs is required. Strong interpersonal skills are important. So is the ability to be comfortable and effective in a process for composition and review that involves suggestions and changes from many people. Candidates must be able to handle pressing tasks under deadlines, and they must have the flexibility to work some evenings and weekends, as necessary.
Education
EDUCATION:
Bachelors or advanced degree, preferably in English or another field within the humanities.
Additional information
This job is being filled by an alternative hiring process and is not in the competitive civil service.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Your application includes your résumé, responses to the online questions, and required supporting documents (editing, not writing, samples). Please be sure that your résumé includes detailed information to support your qualifications for this position; failure to provide sufficient evidence in your resume may result in a not qualified determination. Those who aren't qualified will be informed and not considered further. Others will be referred to the hiring division for further consideration. NOTE: Although there is no deadline, CBO may close the application anytime after October 29, 2017. Although we may continue to accept applications beyond that date, we are only ensuring that those who submitted by that date will be considered. Should the hiring division wish to review candidates who applied after that date, we will then process those applications to determine if they are qualified and should be forwarded for management review. You must submit a complete application at www.cbo.gov/careers (not USAJobs or through email).
Cover letter, résumé, salary history, at least one editing sample (see the FAQs on CBOs website for a description), and contact information for three references at www.cbo.gov/careers (NOT THROUGH USAJOBS). CBO may request additional editing samples.
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
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DO NOT APPLY THROUGH USAJOBS. submit a cover letter, résumé, salary history, at least one editing sample (see the FAQs on CBOs website for a description), and contact information for three references at www.cbo.gov/careers. CBO may request additional editing samples. Although there is no deadline by which to apply, this position may be closed any time after October 22, 2017 if CBO has received a sufficient number of applications from qualified candidates. This position is covered by VEOA.
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