Role/Position Summary:

The Copy Editor is responsible for the editing and proofing of proposal foundations, as well as associated documents, to ensure overall quality – including but not limited to consistent formats and styles, proper grammatical construction, and clarity of thought.

Duties/Responsibilities:

1. Read through documents, correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, format, awkward sentences, and inconsistences.
2. Rewrite where necessary, verify arithmetic, cross check information, and question discussion/logic/argument (edit) for clarity of thought.
3. Compare the most recent iterations of copy against previous versions and ensure that all revisions were accurately made.
4. Correct grammatical problems (proof).
5. Ensure compliance with corporate formatting standards, including heading level order, spacing, bullets/numbered items, and use of serial comma.
6. Ensure consistency in format and content.
7. Provide quality control for foundations and all associated documents produced by technical writers.
8. Determine type of proof/edit required for presentations, proposals, and reports while maintaining high quality.
9. Effectively work with the team in assessing requirements to develop and submit the proposal foundations.
10. Meet deadlines, both internal and external.
11. Work under time pressure.
12. Prioritize workload to maintain tight schedules of day-to-day operations.
13. Set up documents for final copy, ensuring position of graphics and tables in text are correct.
14. Stay abreast of editing technology, investigate, and recommend improvements to maintain state-of-the-art capability.
15. Serve as subject matter expert on editorial topics, corporate formatting standards, and the Chicago Manual of Style.
16. Develop other technical documents such as environmental reports, operations manuals, and other deliverables, as necessary.
17. Quickly gain expertise in the corporate proposal development guidelines, processes, methodologies, and formatting standards.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Secondary Education (major in English); AB English; AB Creative Writing; AB Communication; AB Journalism; BS Development Communication; AB Literature, AB Language and Literature; AB Mass Communication; as well as other communication- and English language-related courses.
• At least 1 year experience as a Copy Editor or Business/Technical/Proposal Writer.

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