Publications Specialist II – Magazine Editor

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🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $1 / year

⏰ Full Time

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FM Talent

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2004

🎯 Recruiter

🏛️ Government

Recruitment • Government

FM Talent is a recruitment and workforce solutions firm that provides two core offerings: Government Solutions, delivering mission-critical program and workforce support for federal agencies, and Recruitment Solutions, supplying high-quality talent through specialized, insight-driven hiring services. The company focuses on helping organizations deliver on their work by combining program support and targeted hiring services, serving public sector clients and recruiters/job-seekers through job search and employer value propositions.

📋 Description

• Manage the complete lifecycle of Public Roads magazine and associated publication products • Develop and maintain editorial calendars, production schedules, and publication timelines • Coordinate multiple concurrent publication efforts and overlapping production cycles • Serve as the primary liaison between authors, editors, technical reviewers, graphic designers, web teams, and Government stakeholders • Manage article intake, review, approval, tracking, and final publication activities • Oversee version control and publication workflow management throughout the production process • Ensure all content complies with Federal publishing requirements, editorial standards, branding guidance, and accessibility requirements • Support editorial review, proofreading, and quality assurance activities • Coordinate technical, legal, public affairs, and management reviews as required • Track publication milestones and proactively resolve production delays or workflow issues • Support development of promotional content and publication outreach activities • Maintain publication records, archives, production documentation, and stakeholder contact lists • Prepare status reports and production updates for Government stakeholders • Recommend improvements to publication processes, workflows, and quality control procedures

🎯 Requirements

• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain required USDOT facility and network access • Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, English, Publishing, or a related field • Minimum 7 years of progressively responsible experience in publication management, editorial operations, or magazine production • Experience managing recurring publications, magazines, journals, newsletters, or comparable communications products • Experience coordinating complex editorial review and approval processes • Strong project management and organizational skills • Experience managing publication schedules, production timelines, and multiple simultaneous deliverables • Strong writing, editing, proofreading, and communication skills • Experience working with cross-functional teams and multiple stakeholder groups • Ability to manage priorities in a deadline-driven environment • Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and publication management tools • Preferred: experience managing technical, scientific, research, or government publications • Preferred: FHWA, USDOT, or other Federal civilian agency publication experience • Preferred: experience using Adobe InDesign, Acrobat, or similar publication-production tools

🏖️ Benefits

• Occasional travel for conferences, publication planning meetings, stakeholder engagements, and outreach events as required • Monday-Friday during standard business hours with flexibility to support publication deadlines and production schedules