• Listed: 29 October 2014
  • Closes: 28 November 2014
  • Albany, Auckland
  • FullTime
  • Aderant

The Technical Writing team forms part of a larger Research and Development group which is split between Auckland and Tallahassee in North America. Together the R&D group are responsible for developing and maintaining our products which are sold and supported around the globe.

What you'll be doing.

Creating and maintaining the standard documentation set for our applications (in accordance with our style guide):
  • User Guides/Online
  • HelpAdministration Guides
  • Customization Guides
Creating and maintaining instructional videos for our applications.

Collaborating with the development teams for the creation of the standard release document set for our applications (using our templates and guidelines):
  • Release Notes
  • Installation Guides
  • Set Up Guides
Working with the other Tech Writers in the maintenance of the Documentation Team shared resources, including:
  • Templates
  • Style Guide
  • Documentation Wiki
Skills/Experience:
  • Passion – writing will be an important professional and vocational choice for you.
  • Team work – you’ll love working and collaborating in a close-knit team.
  • Communication – this will be a real strength, especially offering opinions, sharing information and ideas and relating to your teammates. Your written skills will obviously be a specific strength!
  • Willingness to learn – you’ll be eager to learn and figure stuff out and love to be challenged.
  • Qualifications - you’ll have recently completed an appropriate tertiary qualification.
  • Technology Background – we’d prefer someone with a strong interest in IT and an aptitude for understanding and working with technical information. For instance, reading specifications and other materials to obtain knowledge of how our software works. Experience with HTML would be an advantage, but not a necessity.
  • Tools experience – it’ll help if you are familiar with a help authoring tool like Flare, or a video recording and editing tool such as Captivate or Camtasia.
More details and online application available on the Seek job ad: http://www.seek.co.nz/job/27505928

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