- Manage editorial planning, production schedules, article tracking, version control, reviews, approvals, production, distribution, and archiving for a quarterly print and digital magazine.
- Maintain an editorial pipeline balancing evergreen content with emerging transportation research, innovations, and trends.
- Develop content and story ideas; interview contributors as needed and edit, proofread, fact-check, and quality-assure articles.
- Translate complex technical and research information into clear, accurate content for technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Coordinate authors, technical reviewers, editors, designers, federal communications staff, legal counsel, and public affairs personnel through review and approval.
- Work with graphic designers to integrate text, photography, data, charts, and illustrations into print and digital products.
- Support communications and promotional materials associated with each issue.
- Resolve editorial, workflow, and production challenges and recommend process improvements.
- Verify incorporation of technical review comments and required management, legal, public affairs, accessibility, and other approvals.
- Ensure compliance with the GPO Style Manual, Chicago Manual of Style, Section 508 requirements, and applicable federal publishing standards.
- Coordinate final proofing, prepress review, permissions, accessibility, digital files, publication packages, distribution, and archiving.
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