NOTE: This is a TERM appointment (not-to-exceed 4 Years). Term appointments are non-status, nonpermanent appointments of limited duration (more than 1 year but not more than 4). Term appointments may be extended without further competition (up to the 4-year maximum). The appointment to a Term position does not confer eligibility for promotion or reassignment to other positions or the ability to be non-competitively converted to permanent employment.
This is a bargaining unit position.
Areas of Consideration for all Other Positions:1st - Facility-wide (including satellites) 2nd - Administration or Staff office posting the vacancy. 3rd - All other Status eligibles.
VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Total Rewards Work Schedule: Full-time, Monday - Friday, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Compressed/Flexible Schedule: Not Available
Telework: May be authorized at Supervisor's discretion.
Duty Location Status: Will work from a VA owned or leased space
Position Description/PD#: Technical Writer (Medical Science)
/PD02337A
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required
Physical Demands: The work is mainly sedentary. Typically, the employee may sit comfortably to perform portions of the work. However, travel will be required with minor lifting and moving of research-related items as well as standing, bending, or stretching to inspect various research areas and equipment. Work also often requires intense concentration.
Major Duties:
- Prepare reports developed by others for publication by making sure the material conveys what is intended to say, is arranged logically, presents facts to support the conclusions drawn, is in accordance with agency policy, and is written clearly and interestingly for the intended audience.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for all processes by overseeing the entire SOP within the various research programs.
- Work both collaboratively and independently to develop new and creative web design features as well as updating and maintaining essential information on the program's internal website.
- Participate in development and collection of critical data for high-level projects such as briefings, preparing presentations, and validating the accuracy and validity of presentation or dissemination material content.
- Develop written products that articulate, interpret, and explain highly complex, potentially controversial, and important program policies and findings.
- Apply a consistent set of style, grammar, and punctuation practices to all written correspondence.
Starting at $95,694 Per Year (GS 12)
