Position Descriptions

Profwrite is an organization of professional writers. We produce a range of professional documents to meet the needs of our clients. Small collaborative teams led by a project administrator are responsible for decision making, content creation, and publication.

Team Map

Click on the following job titles to view descriptions that outline the responsibilities and required skills for each position. Bolded red text indicates the expected deliverables from each position.

Management

Project Manager

Project Manager

The instructor of the course will fill the role of project manager, responsible for providing guidance and training to our team of content contributors. The manager will clarify project goals and deadlines, and guide coordinators, administrators, and writers to confidently produce documents that align with ProfWrite’s best practices, project goals, and our client’s expectations.

Teams

Each student employee will be assigned to a team. Teams are designed around the three primary deliverables for the Soft Skill Promotion: Blog Posts, White Paper, and Promotional Material. Teams are considered experts on their deliverable.

Each team member is also a content expert who has thoroughly researched one or more soft skills.

Blog

Blog Posts

This team will be responsible for setting up and managing the Soft Skills Blog. The team will develop processes, procedures, and style and content guidance for producing soft-skill blog posts. Preferred Skills:
  • Experience maintaining a website or blog. Experience with WordPress preferred.
  • Experience designing documents for the web.
  • Creativity, attention to detail, and organizational skills are a must.
  • Proactive worker, with ability to multi-task and problem solve effectively.
  • Ability to communicate well in writing with clients and colleagues.
Responsibilities:
  • Maintains Soft Skills Blog
  • Creates model documents.
  • Distributes style guide to project administrators for distribution to teams.
  • Ensures all blog content is consistent in terms of style, quality and tone of voice, and optimized for user experience.
  • Publishes or facilitates publication of blog entries.
White Paper

Soft Skill White Paper

This team will be responsible for determining an outline for the White Paper; creating and disseminating guidelines for writing White Paper sections; writing the introduction and conclusion of the white paper; and collecting, organizing, and publishing the White Paper Preferred Skills:
  • Experience designing multi-page documents.
  • Creativity, attention to detail, and organizational skills are a must.
  • Proactive worker, with ability to multi-task and problem solve effectively.
  • Ability to communicate well in writing with clients and colleagues.
Responsibilities:
  • Creates and maintains style guide and  model sections.
  • Distributes style guide to project administrators for distribution to teams.
  • Ensures all sections are consistent in terms of style, quality and tone of voice, and optimized for user experience.
  • Writes introduction and conclusion to white paper.
  • Categorizes, groups, and organizes white paper.
Promotional

Promotional Publications

This position will be responsible for creating guidelines for writing promotional material and managing Profwrite Inc’s Twitter account. Preferred Skills:
  • Experience creating Twitter posts.
  • Experience with promotional and persuasive writing.
  • Experience with document design.
  • Execution-oriented mindset to deliver tangible results.
  • Creativity, attention to detail, and organizational skills are a must
  • Proactive worker, with ability to multi-task and problem solve effectively
Responsibilities:
  • Creates and maintains style guide with sample promotional materials.
  • Creates guides to help employees create compelling visual media.
  • Distributes style guide to project managers for distribution to teams.
  • Ensures all promotional content is consistent in terms of style, quality and tone of voice, and optimized for user experience.
  • Publishes or facilitates publication of catalog entries.

Roles

Project Administrator

Project Administrator

This position will be responsible for leading a small team of 4-5 members in a writing project. The position is a temporary position and will last until the duration of the project. It is open to technical writers.

Required Skills:

  • Proactive worker, with ability to multi-task and problem solve effectively
  • Critical thinking skills – using logic and reasoning to identify all strengths and weaknesses of solutions and approaches to problems
  • Effective time management skills, able to plan and adhere to project deadlines
  • Ability to effectively manage multiple projects.
  • Ability to effectively lead a team and hold members responsible
  • Strong communication skills, verbal and written.
  • Must be able to work in a demanding, fast-paced team environment.
  • Close attention to detail.

Responsibilities:

  • Coordinate the creation of materials (style guides, model documents, etc.) to support team’s role in the project.
  • Work with technical writers to identify and resolve problems.
  • Monitor, track, and report regularly on project milestones and deliverables.
  • Facilitates editing of teams deliverables.
  • Integrate data and inputs from multiple sources to produce factually accurate documents.
  • Write, format, edit, and design documents.
  • Represent team in Staff Meeting or appoint a representative.
  • Create research report consistent with Profwrite Inc standards.
  • Create blog posts consistent with model documents and style guide.
  • Create e-guide entry consistent with model documents and style guide.
  • Create promotional material consistent with model documents and style guide.
Technical Writer

Technical Writer

This position will be responsible for writing content to meet project goals. Technical writers will conduct research, write and design documents for print and web publication.

Required Skills:

  • Excellent research skills.
  • Ability to effectively manage multiple projects.
  • Flexible, able to multi-task and keep organized.
  • Strong communication skills, verbal and written.
  • Close attention to detail.
  • Experience designing documents for print and the web.

Responsibilities:

  • Works with team to produce materials (style guides, model documents, etc.) to support team’s role in the project.
  • Integrate data and inputs from multiple sources to produce factually accurate documents.
  • Write, format, edit, and design documents.
  • Create research report consistent with Profwrite Inc standards.
  • Create blog posts consistent with model documents and style guide.
  • Create e-guide entry consistent with model documents and style guide.
  • Create promotional material consistent with model documents and style guide.