Technical Writer and Editor Consultant

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🇱🇰 Sri Lanka – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔏 Technical Writer

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📋 Description

• Strengthen the quality, consistency, accessibility and visibility of the GCF Knuckles Project’s knowledge products and communication outputs • Conduct technical reviews of draft reports, briefs, papers, training materials and proposals • Copy-edit and language-edit documents for grammar, syntax, spelling, punctuation, flow, concision and readability • Proofread designed layouts and final proofs against approved text • Draft and rewrite news, media, technical, storytelling and web content from notes, interviews and field visits • Maintain a content calendar for ICRAF Sri Lanka news • Prepare media advisories and releases for approval and compile media coverage and clippings • Support engagement with English, Sinhala and Tamil media as directed • Review Sinhala and Tamil translations for accuracy and consistency with English source materials • Fact-check content and verify permissions and approvals • Apply ethical and inclusive storytelling standards • Maintain editing logs, style sheets and glossaries; use tracked changes and version control • Provide editorial notes to authors to build writing capacity • Apply Landscape Alliance editorial and publication guidelines and standards • Accept or confirm feasibility of task orders within one working day and deliver products by agreed deadlines • Ensure all published materials undergo COE team quality review in Bogor before final release

🎯 Requirements

• Professional capability in technical review, copy-editing, language editing, proofreading, writing and rewriting • Ability to review reports, briefs, papers, training materials and proposals for clarity, logic, completeness and consistency • Ability to apply project style guides, referencing conventions, editorial guidelines and publication standards • Ability to write news items, press releases, feature stories, case studies, blogs, newsletter articles, factsheets, summaries, speeches, web content and social media copy • Ability to verify names, titles, dates, figures, place names, institutional names and quotations • Ability to review Sinhala and Tamil translations where applicable • Ability to maintain editing logs, style sheets and glossaries; use tracked changes and version control • Knowledge of British English, plain-language writing and consistent Sri Lankan place and institution names • Ability to comply with responsible AI-use, confidentiality, originality, permissions and licensing requirements • Ability to ensure informed consent, dignified and non-stereotyped portrayal of communities, and gender-responsive and socially inclusive language • Ability to confirm acceptance and feasibility of task-order deadlines within one working day • No minimum educational credential or prior experience requirement is stated

🏖️ Benefits

• Consultancy engagement with task-specific products, scope, effort and fees agreed before work starts • Fees based on unit rates in the Consultant’s financial proposal • Up to three rounds of consolidated feedback included within the agreed fee for each product • Opportunity to work remotely from home

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