New vacancy: Junior Technical Author/API Documentation Writer, City of London, £28K DOE

This is an opportunity to join a technical writing team within a fast-growing, independent software company. Our client develops Web-based financial trading software for the world’s largest financial institutions. They have an immediate vacancy for a Junior Technical Author/API Documentation Writer with a passion for technical communication.

You will developing end-user documentation for a range of products, producing user manuals, online Help and API documentation.

You need to have one years experience working in an IT environment, and some experience of writing technical documentation. You also need to be able to demonstrate you have excellent verbal and written communication skills, and outstanding attention to detail.

You will have:

  • experience of writing technical documentation from scratch
  • familiarity with Agile development approaches
  • some knowledge of Java, C, C# or C++
  • an understanding of Web application development tools and methods: HTML, DOM, CSS

More information: #4134 Junior Technical Author/API Documentation Writer, City of London, £28K DOE

New job vacancy: #4133 Technical Author, City of London, £32K-£37K DOE

This is an opportunity to join a technical writing team within a fast-growing, independent software company. Our client develops Web-based financial trading software for the world’s largest financial institutions. They have an immediate vacancy for a Technical Author with a passion for technical communication.

You will developing end-user documentation for a range of products, producing user manuals, online help and API documentation.

See #4133 Technical Author, City of London, £32K-£37K DOE

Vacancy: #4127 Contract Technical Author, Manchester, £25/hr, 6 months

This is an opportunity to join a friendly team of authors, working for a large and progressive company. Our client needs a technical writer to join its team of writers who can write user guides, Help files and workbooks for scientific instruments.

You’ll need to have at least 2 year’s experience in technical writing and, ideally, a science (esp. chemistry) background. It would help if you have some experience writing standard operating procedures in a regulated environment.

You need to be skilled in using:

  • Authoring tools such as Madcap Flare, RoboHelp, FrameMaker or Adobe Acrobat.
  • Graphics tools such as Corel Photo-Paint, CorelDraw or PaintShop Pro.

You also need to be experienced in user-centred design writing techniques, such as user personas and task-based writing

You’ll be working on-site, at the client’s offices in South Manchester.

To apply, please email us a copy of your CV.

Vacancies for Technical Authors

We have clients looking to recruit Technical Authors for the following positions:

Want a job as a Technical Author or Courseware Developer?

Here are some of the vacancies that have come in within the last 10 days, which we’re looking to fill:

How to apply

Contract Technical Author opportunity

Our client is looking for a Technical Author for an initial 4 week period to compile building services technical submissions for a construction/engineering project in central London. You’ll be working on-site, developing a Materials Compliance Decantation for all Electrical products and systems installed in the works.

Contact Cherryleaf by email if this is of interest to you. They have not specified a rate.