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Ascension LLC is seeking a Technical Writer and Multimedia Content Specialist to support the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime’s Tribal Victim Services Program Management Support Center. This position will help develop clear, accurate, culturally respectful, and mission-aligned written and visual products that support American Indian and Alaska Native communities, Tribal grant recipients, OVC grant managers, and subject matter experts delivering compliance assistance and capacity-building support.

The ideal candidate is a strong writer, editor, visual communicator, and content organizer who can translate complex program, compliance, training, and technical assistance information into practical products that grant recipients can use. This role is important because the TVSPM Support Center must create reports, tools, training materials, fact sheets, infographics, promising practices, lessons learned, outreach materials, and annual report content that help Tribal victim service programs strengthen service delivery, comply with OVC award requirements, and sustain support for victims of crime. The SOW requires the contractor to develop tools, curricula, webinars, fact sheets, instructional toolkits, infographics, and other resources to support OVC grant recipient compliance and victim services program goals.

Summary of the Contractor Role

The Technical Writer and Multimedia Content Specialist will support content development across the full lifecycle of compliance assistance, training, outreach, reporting, and special projects. The role will draft and edit final reports, technical assistance summaries, annual report content, promising practices, lessons learned, fact sheets, infographics, presentation materials, webinar materials, and special project products. The position will also support plain-language communications that promote webinars, trainings, tools, and other compliance assistance resources, consistent with the SOW requirement to use clear and timely communications that implement plain language.

The successful candidate should be detail-oriented, highly organized, deadline-driven, and comfortable working with sensitive subject matter involving victim services, Tribal communities, human trafficking, child abuse, domestic violence, elder abuse, sexual assault, homicide survivors, and Missing or Murdered Indigenous People. The candidate must be able to work with program managers, Tribal victim services subject matter experts, training specialists, data/evaluation staff, and federal stakeholders to gather information, synthesize findings, and prepare polished, accessible deliverables. This role does not require the candidate to be the victim services subject matter expert, but it does require cultural humility, trauma-informed writing practices, strong editorial judgment, and the ability to avoid generic or insensitive language.

The role will use tools and processes such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, Teams, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Creative Cloud or comparable design tools, plain-language review, Section 508 accessibility checks, version control, editorial review cycles, content calendars, style guides, template libraries, and approval workflows. Ascension’s own past performance supports this alignment through technical editing, report and presentation development, SharePoint content support, training curriculum development, communications products, data visualization, dashboards, and Section 508-compliant materials for federal clients.

Expected Day-to-Day Activities

The Technical Writer and Multimedia Content Specialist will be expected to:

• Draft final reports, technical assistance summaries, compliance assistance summaries, engagement closeout reports, annual report sections, and special project narratives.
• Translate complex grant compliance, programmatic, and technical assistance information into clear, plain-language content for Tribal grant recipients and OVC stakeholders.
• Develop fact sheets, promising practices summaries, lessons learned briefs, checklists, job aids, resource guides, tool summaries, and other written products.
• Create presentation materials, slide decks, webinar handouts, talking points, facilitator notes, and related communications products.
• Support multimedia content development, including infographics, visual summaries, short scripts, video concepts, captions, and basic storyboard content for special projects.
• Edit draft materials for clarity, consistency, grammar, formatting, plain language, accessibility, tone, and alignment with OVC and Ascension quality standards.
• Format deliverables using approved templates, brand standards, heading structures, tables, graphics, citations, and document controls.
• Coordinate with subject matter experts to gather content, confirm technical accuracy, resolve comments, and prepare final products for client review.
• Synthesize meeting notes, evaluation findings, technical assistance outcomes, and participant feedback into concise summaries and report-ready content.
• Support development of annual report content highlighting challenges, successes, promising practices, lessons learned, and quantitative and qualitative evaluation findings, as required by Task 9.
• Prepare outreach content promoting webinars, trainings, tools, fact sheets, and other compliance assistance products, including email language and resource announcements.
• Maintain version control for written and multimedia products, including draft, reviewed, revised, approved, and final versions.
• Apply Section 508 accessibility practices to Word documents, PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, infographics, and other public-facing or shareable materials.
• Collaborate with the Program Manager, Compliance Assistance Operations Lead, Tribal Victim Services SMEs, Training Specialist, Knowledge Management Specialist, and Evaluation Specialist.
• Contribute to the secure repository of tools, resources, reports, and training materials by organizing, tagging, naming, and preparing content for upload.
• Track assigned writing and production tasks using project trackers, content calendars, action item logs, or other project management tools.
• Respond to urgent client requests for special project content, briefing materials, summaries, or visual products.
• Ensure that all written products remain culturally respectful, trauma-informed, victim-centered, and appropriate for AI/AN audiences.