Technical Writer/Analyst – Job ID TW101403

Position	Contract Technical Writer/Planner/Analyst
Location	New York City
Number Req'd
Rate	High Hourly with Benefits; DOE; 35 hour work week
Start/Duration	End of October; Long term
Required Tools	Microsoft Word; knowledge of UNIX
Optional Tools	FrameMaker, Visio, Lotus 1-2-3, Excel, Project, Powerpoint, and web tools

Description:

Technical writer with excellent writing and organizational skills required for long term assignment in New York. Financial application background is desirable, with knowledge of documentation, development, testing, and project management.

Applicant will update development support documentation, test and development environment scripts, configuration management scripts, trouble report scripts and all related documentation. Candidate will also assist in the organization of relevant documents in the document repository, help create new documents, coordinate the publication of documents on the intranet web, and help with reporting responsibilities.

The position is on a very high profile financial management tool. It requires good organizational skills; ability to analyze, distill, synthesize and organize information, clearly and at the right audience level.  In most cases the audience is the developer, but many documents will need to be legible to upper and middle management and to outside groups such as operations and systems support.  Applicant must be able to communicate verbally as well as in writing, especially when gathering information.

Highly recommended: in-depth experience working with software development teams at all levels. In particular, experience with development teams who need to document object-oriented software and multi-process and multi-platform architectures and applications.