The Management, Business, and Information Services Division, which provides editorial and publishing services for the agency, seeks an editor with extraordinary talent someone who can see both the forest and the trees, who can transform drafts if necessary and can catch small errors that others miss.

Duties

The Congressional Budget Office seeks an editor with extraordinary talent -someone who can see both the forest and the trees, who can transform drafts if necessary, and who can catch small errors that others miss. As part of the Editing and Publishing Services unit, CBOs editors help ensure that the agencys reports, presentations, and other publications are clear and accessible to a broad audience. That audience includes Members of Congress, Congressional staff, researchers, journalists, and other members of the public, who look to CBOs nonpartisan analyses to understand the effects of policy decisions on the federal budget and the economy. Projects cover issues related to the federal budget, including such topics as demographic changes, flooding risks, prescription drugs, and weapons systems. Editors handle a range of projects and work with economists, policy analysts, and other technical experts across the agency. In addition to copyediting and proofreading, editors routinely engage in substantive editing, which may include working with authors to reorganize drafts and rewrite portions of drafts. They also work with graphics editors to ensure that charts and graphs tell the story of the research. Editors have followed varied career paths to CBO, coming from academia, journalism, magazine publishing, nonprofits, government, and freelance editing. But they have in common the commitment to understanding complicated ideas and the ability to convey those ideas in straightforward language.

Requirements

• US citizenship or current permanent residents seeking citizenship

Qualifications

See Technical QualificationsTECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS:Candidates must have at least three years of professional experience in editing publications similar to those produced at CBO that is, books, reports, magazines, academic journals, or other publications covering serious subjects in careful detail. Candidates must also hold a bachelors or advanced degree, preferably in English or another field in the humanities. They must have broad editorial skills ranging from guiding authors in writing and organizing drafts, to making complex and difficult drafts clear and graceful, to proofreading with a superior eye for detail. They must thoroughly understand English grammar and syntax, should be sensitive to style and to nuances of tone and meaning in writing and editing, and should be at ease with technical subjects and quantitative information presented in tables and graphs.A bachelor's or advanced degree, preferably in journalism, English, communications, or another field within the humanities;At least three years of professional experience in editing publications similar to those produced at CBOâthat is, books, reports, magazine and journal articles, or other publications covering serious subjects in careful detail;Broad editorial skills that include guiding authors in writing and organize drafts, making complex and difficult drafts clear and graceful, and proofreading with a superior eye for detail;Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to exercise patience and understand othersâ viewpoints, as drafts undergo review by many people who suggest changes;Strong project management skills, including the ability to usher drafts through the editing, review, and production process;A thorough understanding of English grammar and syntax and the nuances of tone and meaning in text and images;Comfort with quantitative information presented in tables and graphs and an interest in data visualization; andFacility completing tasks under deadlines and the flexibility to occasionally work evenings and weekends when necessary.

Education

EDUCATION:

Candidates must also hold a bachelors or advanced degree, preferably in English or another field in the humanities.

Contacts

• Address Congressional Budget Office 2nd and Dst, Ford House Office Building Washington, Dist of Columbia 20515 US
• Name: Annita Gulati
• Phone: 2022260000
• Email: [email protected]