The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s/applicant’s qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship not available.

Our client is seeking a Technical Writer III in San Francisco, CA.

Role Description

• Once provided key messages in an outline and access to subject matter experts, significantly contributes toward efficient content authoring of draft procedural document text.
• Edits and incorporates reviewer comments in policy and procedural document.
• Triages reviewer comments and leads a comment reconciliation meeting to obtain alignment from the cross functional review team.
• Tracks feedback, review comments, and document updates. Communicates comment resolution to team.
• Ensures that policy and procedural document are clear, concise and technically accurate.
• Ensures consistency both within and between the policy and procedural document.
• Verifies accuracy of own work and ensures compliance to internal style guides and templates.
• Tracks and manages multiple concurrent document updates including statuses, timelines, and action items.
• Copy edits documents (including grammar, syntax, punctuation, style, clarity and formatting) to a high professional standard.

Skills & Requirements

Knowledge and Skills:
• Ability to independently perform highly detail-oriented work in writing, reviewing and editing procedural documents with high degree of accuracy and efficiency.
• Strong proficiency with MS Word required, experience with document management systems and MS Office tools preferred.
• Demonstrates strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Demonstrates ability to complete high quality work on multiple concurrent projects under tight deadlines.
• Knowledge of AI Regulation (e.g. European Union AI Act, Colorado AI Act) and AI Governance Frameworks (e.g National Institute of Standards and Technology AI Risk Management Framework) strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of data privacy regulation and frameworks strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of drug development processes or the GxP quality framework strongly preferred.

Education and Experience:
• 5 years of relevant medical writing or technical writing experience of policies, procedural documents, or other GxP documents required.
• BS degree required. Master’s degree or other graduate education level preferred.
• Experience within a pharmaceutical/biotechnology organization, law firm, technology organization, or data science organization preferred.
• Experience writing or experience operationalizing data privacy policy or procedural documents strongly preferred.
• Board of Editors in the Life Sciences certification, American Medical Writers Association certification, or a certification related to procedural document writing or data science preferred.

Required Years of Experience: 5 years of relevant medical writing or technical writing experience of policies, procedural documents, or other GxP documents required.

Top 3 Required Skill Sets:
• Ability to independently perform highly detail-oriented work in writing, reviewing and editing procedural documents with high degree of accuracy and efficiency.
• Strong proficiency with MS Word required, experience with document management systems and MS Office tools preferred.
• Demonstrates ability to complete high quality work on multiple concurrent projects under tight deadlines.

Top 3 Nice to Have Skill Sets:
• Knowledge of AI Regulation (e.g. European Union AI Act, Colorado AI Act) and AI Governance Frameworks (e.g National Institute of Standards and Technology AI Risk Management Framework) strongly preferred.
• Experience writing or experience operationalizing data privacy policy or procedural documents strongly preferred.
• Board of Editors in the Life Sciences certification, American Medical Writers Association certification, or a certification related to procedural document writing or data science preferred.

15. Unique Selling Point of this role:
Writer will collaborate with senior leaders across enterprise to develop 1 policy and 1 procedure for AI Governance. Policy has been drafted. Process map and outline for SOP are drafted.
16. Required Degree or Certification BS degree required. Master’s degree or other graduate education level preferred.

Benefits/Other Compensation

This position is a contract/temporary role where Hays offers you the opportunity to enroll in full medical benefits, dental benefits, vision benefits, 401K and Life Insurance ($20,000 benefit).

Why Hays?

You will be working with a professional recruiter who has intimate knowledge of the industry and market trends. Your Hays recruiter will lead you through a thorough screening process in order to understand your skills, experience, needs, and drivers. You will also get support on resume writing, interview tips, and career planning, so when there’s a position you really want, you’re fully prepared to get it.

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Hays is committed to building a thriving culture of diversity that embraces people with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better we serve our candidates, clients, and employees. We are an equal employment opportunity employer, and we comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, genetic information, HIV-positive status, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. One of Hays’ guiding principles is ‘do the right thing’.
We also believe that actions speak louder than words.
In that regard, we train our staff on ensuring inclusivity throughout the entire recruitment process and counsel our clients on these principles. If you have any questions about Hays or any of our processes, please contact us.

In accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law protecting qualified individuals with known disabilities, Hays will attempt to reasonably accommodate those individuals unless doing so would create an undue hardship on the company. Any qualified applicant or consultant with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should call or text 813.336.5570.

Drug testing may be required; please contact a recruiter for more information.

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