Early Career Technical Writer

$39,600 - $56,500/Yr

HMS - Tallahassee, FL

Full-time - Entry Level

Hybrid - Tallahassee, FL

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

As an Early Career Technical Writer at Gainwell, you can contribute your skills as we harness the power of technology to help our clients improve the health and well-being of the members they serve - a community's most vulnerable. Connect your passion with purpose, teaming with people who thrive on finding innovative solutions to some of healthcare's biggest challenges. Gainwell empowers you to help clients deliver better health and human services outcomes using innovative technology and solutions, enabling you to design your career for growth, new possibilities, and refinement of your valuable skills.

Responsibilities

• Researches, writes, edits, and proofreads more complex technical data for use in documents or sections of documents such as healthcare manuals, procedures, and specifications.
• Assists in establishing style guidelines and standards for texts and illustrations to meet business needs.
• Interviews programmers, business analysts, developers, and other technical personnel to gather information.
• Reads previous documentation and design notes and uses computer-based training or company technical products to gather and research technical healthcare information.
• Writes, organizes, enters and compiles more complex online help files to support end users.
• Creates, compiles, and delivers more complex system/software developmental documentation packages including narratives, logic diagrams, input and output samples, and job setup information.
• Assists in creating project plans for completing documentation.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree is required, along with at least one year of technical writing experience, which may include coursework, internships, or university projects.
• A background in communications, journalism, technical writing, or a related field is necessary.
• Experience working with desktop publishing, word processing, PowerPoint, Basic web design, Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe Creative Cloud, HTML, and other image software.
• Experience working with industry writing style such as grammar, sentence form, and structure, and excellent proofreading and editing skills.
• Ability to convert technical knowledge into easily understood terms, and strong communication skills, personal computer and business solutions software skills.

Nice-to-haves

• General knowledge of medical insurance/healthcare field preferred, not required.

Benefits

• Generous, flexible vacation policy
• 401(k) employer match
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Educational assistance
• Leadership and technical development academies to help build skills and capabilities