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Senior Technical Writer [Cape Town]
The Centre for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology & Research (CIDER) in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine is a large, dynamic research group with more than 80 staff and an annual budget of >R30 million. The Centre seeks to appoint a Senior Technical Writer on a full-time one-year contract in support of its technical assistance role to the National Department of Health. The purpose of this key position is to take primary responsibility for the development and maintenance of high-quality documentation across our software development projects, including technical documentation and user manuals.
Requirements:
• 3 year degree in health, information, computation science or related field
• 3 years or more experience working on a software development team or writing technical documentation such
as data dictionaries and business algorithms
• 2 years or more of content experience, preferably writing user manuals, policy documentation, or standard
operating procedures
• 2 years or more experience developing traditional training materials and/or providing training workshops
• Advanced in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to understand, reorganize, and synthesize complex business logic into well designed manuals
• Knowledge of documentation tools to develop templates, manipulate output styles, and manage content
• Strong written and verbal communication in English
• Extremely detail oriented
Advantageous:
• Strong written and verbal communication in French
• 2 years or more experience implementing TIER.Net, PHCIS and/or EKAPA
Responsibilities:
• Development of data dictionaries, new data exchange standard design, business rules
• Development of traditional training materials (user guides, installation manuals, slide presentations, standard
operating procedures)
• eLearning video development (storyboards and narration)
• Software quality assurance
The annual cost of employment, including benefits (where applicable), is between R330, 530 and R388, 859.
Closing date: 09 June 2017.
More details:
http://www.staff.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/FHS_70523_SnrTechWriter_V2.pdf
UCT is committed to the pursuit of excellence, diversity and redress in achieving its equity targets. Our
Employment Equity Policy is available at http://www.uct.ac.za/downloads/uct.ac.za/about/policies/eepolicy.pdf.
For this post we seek particularly to attract black South Africans.
UCT reserves the right not to appoint.
The Centre for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology & Research (CIDER) in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine is a large, dynamic research group with more than 80 staff and an annual budget of >R30 million. The Centre seeks to appoint a Senior Technical Writer on a full-time one-year contract in support of its technical assistance role to the National Department of Health. The purpose of this key position is to take primary responsibility for the development and maintenance of high-quality documentation across our software development projects, including technical documentation and user manuals.
Requirements:
• 3 year degree in health, information, computation science or related field
• 3 years or more experience working on a software development team or writing technical documentation such
as data dictionaries and business algorithms
• 2 years or more of content experience, preferably writing user manuals, policy documentation, or standard
operating procedures
• 2 years or more experience developing traditional training materials and/or providing training workshops
• Advanced in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to understand, reorganize, and synthesize complex business logic into well designed manuals
• Knowledge of documentation tools to develop templates, manipulate output styles, and manage content
• Strong written and verbal communication in English
• Extremely detail oriented
Advantageous:
• Strong written and verbal communication in French
• 2 years or more experience implementing TIER.Net, PHCIS and/or EKAPA
Responsibilities:
• Development of data dictionaries, new data exchange standard design, business rules
• Development of traditional training materials (user guides, installation manuals, slide presentations, standard
operating procedures)
• eLearning video development (storyboards and narration)
• Software quality assurance
The annual cost of employment, including benefits (where applicable), is between R330, 530 and R388, 859.
Closing date: 09 June 2017.
More details:
http://www.staff.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/FHS_70523_SnrTechWriter_V2.pdf
UCT is committed to the pursuit of excellence, diversity and redress in achieving its equity targets. Our
Employment Equity Policy is available at http://www.uct.ac.za/downloads/uct.ac.za/about/policies/eepolicy.pdf.
For this post we seek particularly to attract black South Africans.
UCT reserves the right not to appoint.
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