Job brief
We are seeking a creative, dynamic, and detail-focused Program Writer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in technical writing and have experience writing different types of programs. The main focus of the role will be to provide technical writing support and the writing of programs to the software development team.
Responsibilities
- Prepare, review, and revise where required technical documents relating to programs and software, including system engineering, software engineering, systems operations, and user testing.
- Gather and investigate technical information along with product information from various sources, to keep track of new or changing product functionality.
- Write and format technical procedures and review and edit procedures for both technical and non-technical users.
- Assist the development team by ensuring all documentation is prepared in a timely manner to align with product release dates.
- Develop and maintain a library of documentation for future use by internal or external developers or team members and ensure it is stored efficiently.
- Create, update and maintain a library of document templates for various RPF responses, technical spec documents written by others to maintain an overall standard.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, English language, Literature, or Communication and Writing, or other related fields
- 2 years of experience in a technical writing role and equivalent education/certification
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Adept with writing concise and clear information
- Great team working skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate with other team members
- Great analytical abilities
- Experience creating documents for audiences of all abilities
- Good time management abilities
- Effective at prioritizing own workload
- Excellent attention to detail, with the ability to keep focused over long periods of time
- Strong technical background