Technica Writer

Technical Writer

South Carolina seeks an expert in Technical Writer for writing RFPs for complex projects to be procured.

The South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is seeking a BA Technical Writer who will write RFPs using the SCDHHS template for at least 5 different projects that the agency needs to procure.

General Duties:

• Attend and facilitate various meetings to get missing language and details to draft the RFP.
• Development of RFPs that include scope of work, technical requirements, staff, deliverables, etc. for each project.
• Review and write the business needs in the RFP.
• Identify mandatory requirements, page limits, formatting rules, and scoring criteria.
• Gather information from Subject Matter Experts, past proposals, and leadership to ensure completeness in each RFP.
• Assist management in getting the responses needed for compliance requirements.
• Works with Medicaid Systems leadership to create and update the RFPs.
• Other duties as assigned.

Desired

Skills and Experience:

• 2+ years of technical writing experience in positions requiring the development of structured written materials and visual aids.
• Must possess advanced skills in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio) to include working with templates and style guidelines for branding consistency.
• Ability to interact with project team members, management, and agency departments and to build out required sections in the RFP.
• Attention to detail to avoid missing requirements that can disqualify a bid.
• Experience with procurements for state agency.
• Experience working with SharePoint and other typical project management tools, including Visio, PowerPoint, MS Project, Word, Access and Excel.
• Ability to create and document key project management requirements.
• Superb communications skills (written and oral).
• Effective listener
• Willingness and ability to effectively engage with people and organizations; ability to get people with competing, diverse interests to work together.
• Experience in Medicaid or other healthcare claims system(s) IT projects preferred, but not mandatory.
• Must be able to manage multiple high profile, high priority projects at one time.

Required Skills (rank in order of Importance):

• 2 years of technical writing experience
• Must possess advanced skills in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio) to include working with templates and style guidelines for branding consistency

Preferred Skills (rank in order of Importance):

• Ability to interact with project team members, management, and departments
• Previous public sector work experience
• Experience in Medicaid or other healthcare claims system(s) IT projects preferred

Required

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree