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JOB: Technical Communication Lead - Tampa, Florida
Subject:JOB: Technical Communication Lead - Tampa, Florida From:Martha Collins <martha -dot- d -dot- collins -at- US -dot- PWCGLOBAL -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 17 Feb 1999 16:20:18 -0500
The technical communications team at PricewaterhouseCoopers'
National Administrative Center located in Tampa, Florida, has an opening
for a Technical Communication Lead.
This person will oversee the writing, maintenance, editing, and publishing
of PricewaterhouseCoopers' financial organization's technical
documentation.
The Lead will supervise a group of technical communicators and work with
communication and training staff as well as application developers and
subject-matter experts.
The successful candidate must possess the following knowledge/
skills/abilities:
- Ability and willingness to be an advocate for the user
- Knowledge of information design, presentation of data, language
conventions, and communication principles
- Ability and willingness to be open to new ideas without sacrificing
usability and accuracy
- Ability and willingness to understand the requirements and uses of
different media and to apply them appropriately
- Ability and willingness to gather relevant and accurate information
and analyze it for appropriatenes
- Understanding of usability, skill in user and task analysis, and the
ability and willingness to provide value to the user of the information
- Ability to ascertain relevance and usefulness
- Ability to integrate relevant discrete pieces of data to form concepts
and extract procedures and rules
- Skill in working with groups and willingness to be a contributing
member of a team
- Ability and willingness to be efficient, not waste time or resources
- Ability and willingness to produce consistently
- Willingness to stay up to date with tools, media, subject areas;
willingness to invest in continuous learning
- Ability and willingness to understand the technical content and
user?s context for applying the content
Send resumes by e-mail to:
martha -dot- d -dot- collins -at- us -dot- pwcglobal -dot- com
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