Organization: Pact
Country: United States of America
Closing date: 03 Oct 2015
Pact Overview
At the heart of Pact is the promise of a better tomorrow. The promise of a healthy life. Of dignified living. Of sustainable natural resources that benefit communities. Now more than ever in its 44-year history, Pact is helping millions of people who are poor and marginalized discover and build their own solutions and take ownership over their future.
Pact enables systemic solutions that allow those who are poor and marginalized to earn a dignified living, be healthy, and take part in the benefits that nature provides. Pact accomplishes this by strengthening local capacity, forging effective governance systems, and transforming markets into a force for development.
Position Purpose
Reporting to the Director of Marketing + Communications, the Donor Documents Editor is responsible for ensuring proposals and project reports comply with donor regulations, adhere to Pact standards of quality and inspire engagement. A new position, the Donor Documents Editor works closely with Pact’s worldwide Opportunity Development and Program Delivery teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Edit technical documents by reviewing content for lucidity, completeness, and effectiveness, performing substantive editing, copy editing, line editing and proofreading, and working with authors on rewrites, as necessary.
- Ensure consistency of style, graphics and layout, and enforce active, grammatically correct, typo-free language to result in clarity and engagement.
- Review documents against donor/solicitation/reporting requirements and Pact standards-of-quality checklist.
- Contribute to workflow improvements, standards of quality and Style Guide.
- Create compelling, innovative solicitation/reporting approaches, where appropriate, including but not limited to highly interactive PDFs.
- Lead editorial development of designated donor reports.
- Generate graphics, call-outs, acronym lists, bibliographies and manage images.
- Design and compile document templates; create library of frequently used passages and briefs.
- Maintain version control.
- Coordinate final document release.
- Discern items of interest for feature story follow-up or social media posts, working with Content Editor.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelors in English, journalism, publishing or other related fields
- Minimum of 6 years of experience editing technical and/or proposal documents in an international development environment, with demonstrated results.
- Superlative grammar, editorial and proofreading skills.
- Strong communication, interpersonal and team-working skills
- Must be highly proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel
- Strong critical-thinking skills, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
- Thorough knowledge of Chicago Manual and Associated Press styles
- Knowledge of publishing workflows
- Experience with USAID, DFID requirements
- Familiarity with Adobe apps, including InDesign, InCopy, Photoshop and Acrobat Pro.
- Meets deadlines.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in related field.
- Fluency in French
- Graphic design portfolio
How to apply:
To apply for this position please visit the position posting on our website.
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