Primary responsibilities are to review, analyze, and respond to Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and Requests for Information (RFIs). You will create Needs Analysis Reports for prospective customers and maintain proposal processes. You must have more than two years of proposal or technical writing experience. Prefer Bachelors Degree in English or Technical Writing or related field of study. Benefits include FREE health coverage, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, vacation, holidays and company match 401(K). Salary range $38K to $45K depending on experience.

Interested candidates must apply for the Sales Proposal Writer position on-line at: Spillman.com.

EEO

For a full description and online application, candidates can visit www.ge.com/careers and search for Job #1425966, Technical Writer Qualibria. Candidates must apply online.

Job Summary:
You will be responsible for leading user-centered design activities related to MathWorks products and/or Web applications. You will work with development teams to understand their projects’ user-centered design requirements, and develop creative solutions for meeting those needs.

Responsibilities:
•       Make recommendations to team members about which usability methods to use to answer their questions about users and design directions based on projects’ needs, goals and constraints.
•       Work closely with team members to conduct user research, identify pain points, develop user profiles and create task lists.
•       Contribute to requirements and design documents.
•       Help the development team follow a user-centered design approach as you work collaboratively to brainstorm and design innovative solutions to complex problems.
•       Collaborate on paper and functional prototypes.
•       Run usability tests, conduct interviews and site visits, organize surveys, and perform other usability assessments you think are appropriate.
•       Help the team interpret and understand user feedback, and provide input for design decisions based on that feedback.

Qualifications:
•       BA, BS, or MA in cognitive psychology, human factors, or related field, or equivalent experience
•       4-8 years as a usability engineer in software design and development
•       Direct experience with a variety of usability methods
•       Strong leadership skills
•       Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
•       Ability to balance needs of a large number of concurrent projects and work effectively with cross-functional teams

Pluses:
•       Experience working in technical domains
•       Knowledge of MathWorks products

To apply  http://bit.ly/qMaNZW

Recently written articles by members of our User Experience Team
Switching Between Tools in Complex Applications    http://matlab.my/WillSchroeder
User-Centered Design in Procured Software Implementations    http://matlab.my/JenHocko
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Usability People    http://matlab.my/MaryBethRettger

Company profile
MathWorks, creator of MATLAB® and Simulink®, is the leading developer of mathematical computing software for engineers and scientists. Founded in 1984, we employ 2200 people in 15 countries; our headquarters is in the Boston Metro area in Natick, Massachusetts US, seventeen miles from downtown Boston and accessible by the commuter train.

Over 1,000,000 customers use MATLAB® and Simulink®, and other MathWorks toolboxes in a wide range of industries, including automotive, finance, computational biology, image processing, and technical computing. MathWorks has been profitable every year since its inception and is privately held.

SINET is seeking qualified individuals with a passion for education to write video scripts for professional development videos.  In addition to writing video scripts, the writer will be responsible for designing and writing implementation guides to accompany all videos produced, often under tight deadlines.  Responsibilities will include participation in collaborative writing projects and other special writing assignments, as assigned.

For more information, see the job description here: Educational Multi-Media Writer (PDF).

Location: South Jordan, UT (some light travel to regional offices will be required)

Position: Contract

Job Description: Develops, writes, and edits policies and procedures, ensuring appropriate grammar and format

Maintenance and updates of existing regulations as well as the development of new documents.

Conduct interviews with managers and team members in order to gather information from each department and create policy and procedure documents based on your findings.

Coordinate layout and organization of document, obtain and interpret data through research

Contact: Please submit your resume to Amie Dyer, amie.dyer@wjbradley.com

We are seeking a part-time desktop publishing specialist to support our Broomfield, CO, Bismarck, ND, and Sheridan, WY, offices. The candidate will be responsible for formatting environmental impact statements, archaeological reports, biological reports, and other environmental analyses using established SWCA styles or client-specific formats. These documents range in length and complexity from simple memoranda to multi-chapter, multi-volume documents. Most are printed and comb bound in-house; some are printed professionally and perfect-bound.

Although this position will be based out of the Broomfield office, the successful candidate may be able to work remotely part or most of the time. This is a part-time position; however, occasional full-time work will be needed as workload and deadlines demand. View the detailed job description and apply online.

EOE/W/M/V/D
**SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: A cover letter is required as part of the application process. Applications received without the requested information will not be considered. **

This position requires experience and demonstrated expertise in technical or business journalism; provision of writing samples may be required.

For more information, see the contact information below:

Bee Ng
Technical Recruiter
Park Hudson International LLC
212 West 35th Street – 4th Floor
New York, NY 10001
(212) 216-0007- PH Ext (134)
(212) 216-0021- FAX
bng@phisearch.com
www.phisearch.com

Please join us for our first 2011 Town Hall. We’ll be having a free lunchtime meeting held over conference call. Grab you lunch then dial us up.

We are currently changing our webinar provider, so we’ll be adding call-in information shortly. We wanted to get this post up, so you can save the date.

We’ll have two town hall meetings each month in June, July, and August. We hope you’ll attend all of them!

Please join us for our second June 2011 Town Hall. We’ll be having a free lunchtime meeting held over conference call. Grab you lunch then dial us up.

Check back soon to see the call-in information shortly. Save the date!

We’ll also have two town hall meetings in July and August. We hope you’ll attend all of them!

Judging teams were members of the Advanced Technical Communications courses at Utah Valley University this year. We appreciate the students and their instructors for providing this important service.

Judging evaluation forms, award plaques, and certificates will go to each of the contributors within the next week or so.

Awards:

D2 (Liz Roscovius):

• Best Buy Exclusive Brands SharePoint Training Guide: Achievement
• DX-22LD150A11 Marketing Sheet: Merit
• NS-46E560A11 LED-LCD TV doc set (QSG): Merit
• NS-50P650A11 Marketing Sheet: Merit
• Polaroid Doc Style Guide: Merit
• RF-RBWS02 wireless outdoor speaker doc set (manual): Merit
• RF-RBWS02 wireless outdoor speaker doc set (QSG): Merit
• ValveSTAR G4 Reference Manual: Merit
• VIZIO VBR120 Blu-ray DVD player manual: Merit
• VIZIO XWR100 Dual-band HD Wireless Internet Router User Manual: Merit
• NS-PD8CH Infocast Tutorial: Merit
• NS-PD8CH Infocast 360^o Viewer: Achievement

AGEISS (Eileen Wheelock):

• Restoration Program Waste Characterization and Shipping Manual: Merit

UCAR (Bob Henson):

• Staff Notes Newsletter: Excellence
• UCAR Magazine: Excellence
• UCAR at 50: Distinction, Best of Show