The Choice is managing a contract position for our client- a tax industry, policy publications firm. This is a temporary position for maternity leave coverage (~20 weeks), starting in early January.
The ideal candidate will be/will have:
- Bachelor’s degree in English, writing, or journalism, or equivalent experience required
- 2+ years editorial or proofreading experience
- Thorough understanding of editorial and publication processes
- Familiarity with online publishing and web-content management
- Proficiency in Windows, Word, Adobe Acrobat, electronic databases, and web searching
- Experience with XHTML preferred
- DMV area-based, must be able to commute to Falls Church VA for a hybrid in office schedule (3 days a week in office). Free parking is available. Must have access to reliable transportation as Metro is not walkable.
Job Duties:
- Researches and writes brief news stories for daily online publication.
- Summarizes and processes treaties, news releases, and other documents in content management system.
- Edits news stories and adds associations to cited treaties.
- Checks for content accuracy, grammar, spelling, and consistency, in accordance
- with established policies and procedures and company style guide.
- Oversees processing of documents and performs final review of files for quality assurance before publication.
- Updates and maintains data in tables, treaties, and online tools to ensure accuracy.
- Works in source code to enrich data and make improvements as needed.
- Communicates regularly with editors and production department staff to meet
- established deadlines.
- Acts as backup for other team members as required or assigned.
- Undertakes special projects as requested.
- Adheres to company style guide and established publication deadlines.
