• Listed: 16 October 2014
  • Closes: 24 October 2014
  • Christchurch
  • FullTime
  • Wynyard Group

Technical Writer Design & Development | Christchurch, New Zealand ROLE NUMBER: 1083/1084

THE ROLE:

We are looking for an experienced Technical Writer for our Christchurch office to be responsible for writing and revising information about Wynyard Group products and about using our software including installation guides, release notes, technical specifications, quick reference guides, user guides, troubleshooting guides, training guides, online help plus translated versions.

TO APPLY:

Please copy and paste this link into your browser to take you to our careers page through Jobvite: https://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?nl=1&k=Job&j=ouosZfw3&s=TCANZ_(Technical_Communicators_Association_NZ)

THE KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Developing and maintaining help and documentation in Author-it
  • Actively participating in initial training for products you document
  • Delivering work to seamlessly fit with product roadmap timelines
  • Supporting global colleagues with accurate product documentation

THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

  • Relevant experience or domain expertise as a technical writer in the software industry
  • Excellent command of Microsoft Word
  • Working knowledge of Author-it
  • Excellent English communication skills
  • Strong relationship building skills
  • A high degree of flexibility and adaptability
  • A high level of accuracy

WHO WE ARE:

Wynyard Group specialise in powerful software to help protect companies and countries from threat, crime and corruption.

Wynyard Group is a fast paced, rapidly growing, market leader in critical threat assessment and advanced crime analytics for government, financial services and critical national infrastructure. Wynyard’s powerful software helps assess threats, surface hidden relationships give new meaning to events and identify people of interest.

Bringing together world leading data scientists, software developers, and industry experts Wynyard creates powerful software that helps organisations understand their threats, connect the dots and uncover the truth. Working at Wynyard means being part of a team that is at the forefront of research and development into risk and threat assessment, crime analytics and investigations. The work is fast paced, and we are rapidly growing in all our locations.

Wynyard has more than 400 customers worldwide including Fortune 500 companies and leading government security agencies. Together, we’re tackling problems like serious and organised crime, money laundering, fraud and the growing concern over information security and privacy.

In less than 12 months we’ve achieved milestones such as listing on the New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZX:WYN), winning NZ’s most innovative software product award and being awarded RiskTech100 APAC Category Winner by global technology analyst firm Chartis.

Wynyard Group is built on heritage and values of loyalty, curiosity, dogged perseverance and authenticity. Wynyard has offices in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Australia and New Zealand. Our advanced Crime Science Research Centre and main hub of application development is located in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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