Job Description
Clearance: TS/SCI
Synertex is seeking a TS/SCI cleared Human Factors / 508 Compliance Specialist for a newly awarded contract supporting the DCSA Training Directorate in Linthicum, Md.
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Responsibilities
- Preparing and testing documents to ensure compliance with Section 508 requirements
- Analyze and correct documents for 508 compliance.
- Using software tools to identify errors in document structure, headings, reading order, images, charts and tables, and hyperlinks.
- Prepare templates for authors to use in document preparation
- Create accessible PDF forms
- Evaluate 508 testing tools and new software
- Perform copy editing and document formatting as it relates to 508 within the Microsoft suite of products
- Touch up images and graphics with Photoshop to ensure they meet 508 color contrast standards
- Perform QA/QC on a variety of documents and products
- Ensure products meet agency and department branding, logo and 508-compliance guidance
Mandatory Qualifications
- 4+ years with Federal 508 compliance experience
- 4+ years of editing, proofing, or copy editing technical information
- Experience and familiarity with Federal GPO requirements and the Microsoft suite of product
- Current on Section 508 policy and federal agency accessibility checklists
- Experience with consulting document owners on fixing 508 compliance issues is preferred.
- Demonstrated experience providing accurate 508 compliant documents
- High attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple ongoing activities
- Experience working comfortably in a demanding, deadline-oriented environment, with very complex processes and tasks with multiple phases
- Demonstrated competence and accuracy in MS Word, PowerPoint, and layout software formatting and revising
- Ability to quickly learn and integrate new tools and technologies to meet customer needs
- Bachelor’s degree (or higher-level degree)
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