Writing and editing skills: The ability to write is essential but beyond this you need to be able to translate technical language into a form of words everyone can understand. This hinges upon an ability to understand the technology in the first place, so it’s a specialist skill you need to have honed.
Requirements
- Gathering information from reports
- Analyzing the information needs of the user
- Working with sales and marketing specialists to understand existing user materials and the purpose of new guides
- Writing top quality, easy to understand material, print or online, for user guides/instruction manuals
- Proofreading and editing your own work and the work of others
- Making amendments to written material in line with the suggestions of other departments
- Commissioning illustrations, diagrams and photographs and incorporating them into text
- Commissioning or presenting video games
- Create tutorials for users or internal staff
- Adapting communications for different audiences
- Editing and updating existing user guides and marketing materials
- Mentoring and training other writers
- Attending planning and briefing meetings
- Indexing and cataloging material
- Able to write in both Arabic and English