INSRE Senior Content Developer

This position is Bozeman-based, and is contingent upon continued funding.

Position Information

Announcement Number

Announcement Number STAFF - VA - 27171

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The Senior Content Developer will work closely with INSRE staff and government customers to develop a wide range of technology-oriented written and digital content for customer-defined projects, supporting efforts across government customers and internal MSU teams. This individual will provide supervision and coordination of technical content development by Information Research and Analysis team members in support of INSRE .

Position Number

Position Number 4C0717

Department

Division

Division Office of Research and Economic Development

Appointment Type

Appointment Type Professional

Contract Term

Contract Term Fiscal Year

Semester

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FLSA

FLSA Exempt

Union Affiliation

Union Affiliation Exempt from Collective Bargaining

FTE

FTE 1.0

Benefits Eligible

Salary Salary starting at $90,000 annually, commensurate with experience, education, and qualifications

Contract Type

Contract Type LOA

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Recruitment Type

Recruitment Type Open

General Statement

The Institute for National Security Research and Education ( INSRE ) is Montana State University’s focal point for national security innovation, aligning research education, industry, and government partners to develop solutions and create opportunities for students that strengthen U.S. national security. For more information, visit INSRE
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Duties and Responsibilities

The Senior Content Developer will work closely with INSRE staff and government customers to develop a wide range of technology-oriented written and digital content for customer-defined projects and efforts. Communications will primarily follow Plain Language style guidelines to align with government requirements, but other writing styles may be required for specific project needs.
Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Supervise the IR&A Team’s content specialists to distribute workload, quality control deliverables, and provide training on the team’s processes.
• Manage the development and implementation of communication deliverables and technical writing quality control processes, training, and tools to improve the design, development, routing, review, and storage of communication deliverables.
• Employ MSU
  -developed and other allowed AI tools, following MSU and customer guidelines, to create knowledge bases, utilize prompts to analyze knowledge bases, and summarize results.
• Develop facilitation tools such as moderator guides, sample plans, and supporting documentation for primary research activities. Provide facilitation or moderation of focus groups, in-depth interviews, and innovation exercises such as ‘tabletop exercises’.
• Utilize advanced writing techniques to develop content that effectively expresses highly technical, complex information in a clear Plain Language style for target audiences, to achieve the communication objectives.
• Develop and create a wide variety of communication deliverables as required by project, such as research reports, standard operating procedures ( SOP ) documents, marketing products, technical documents, white papers, project plans, requirement documents, articles, press releases, meeting minutes, notices, instructions, communications campaign plans, case studies, guidance documents, fact sheets, web content, and training materials defining technical requirements, etc.
• Ensure that all IR&A Team communication deliverables are compliant with appropriate requirements, such as Section 508 Compliance Guidelines, DHS Communications, DHS Communications…