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Ascension is seeking a detail-oriented Technical Writer / Documentation Specialist to support federal enterprise operations, reporting, briefing, and documentation activities for a mission-focused health agency environment. This position supports the development, editing, formatting, and quality review of materials used by program teams, senior leaders, and stakeholders to communicate priorities, risks, performance results, and operational progress.

This role is important because the CMS Enterprise Operations and Efficiency BPA requires timely, accurate, and well-organized documentation to support strategic reporting, HHS/CMS leadership briefings, compliance-related reporting, implementation tracking, and cross-component coordination. The SOO specifically requires preparation of briefing documents, executive summaries, presentations, supporting materials, reports, updates, and deliverables that meet formatting, content, and submission timelines.

The ideal candidate is organized, responsive, and comfortable supporting a fast-moving consulting team where priorities may shift based on leadership requests, reporting deadlines, and client needs.

Summary of the Contractor Role

The Technical Writer / Documentation Specialist will assist Ascension’s project team with preparing, editing, formatting, organizing, and finalizing documents and communication products. The role will support work products such as reports, memoranda, work plans, briefing slides, executive summaries, meeting materials, SOPs, job aids, action item trackers, one-pagers, and internal coordination materials.

This position is best suited for a strong writer/editor who can take draft content from analysts, project managers, and subject matter experts and turn it into clear, professional, client-ready products. The candidate should be able to proofread for grammar, formatting, consistency, readability, version control, and compliance with client templates or style requirements.

Ascension has performed similar documentation and communications support on prior federal engagements, including preparing documentation and deliverables for client approval, developing communication products such as branding guides, briefings, PowerPoint slides, one-pagers, talking points, and other resources, and supporting meeting summaries, action items, reports, and briefing materials.

Position Day-to-Day Activities

• Draft, edit, proofread, and format reports, memoranda, briefings, meeting summaries, work plans, SOPs, job aids, and executive-level materials.
• Prepare PowerPoint presentations, one-pagers, briefing documents, talking points, and supporting materials for project and leadership meetings.
• Review documents for grammar, clarity, consistency, formatting, version control, and alignment with client templates.
• Coordinate with project managers, analysts, and subject matter experts to collect inputs and incorporate edits.
• Support the development of meeting agendas, meeting notes, action item logs, and follow-up summaries.
• Maintain organized document libraries in SharePoint or Teams.
• Track document status, review cycles, deadlines, and approval actions.
• Convert documents to PDF and ensure files are clean, organized, and ready for submission.
• Assist with basic graphics, tables, charts, layouts, and visual formatting for reports and presentations.
• Support compliance with accessibility, branding, formatting, and document quality requirements.
• Update recurring reports, trackers, dashboards, briefing packages, and project documentation as directed.
• Protect sensitive client and project information and follow document handling procedures.