45 - 50 Bucks a day?

So, if you worked an 8 hour day and made the high-end of $50 a day, your hourly wage would be a whopping $6.25. Really? Who would agree to that, given the requirements below?!?

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Technical Writer- Remote
Clear Point Consultants Inc - Cambridge, MA 02138
$45 - $50 a day - Contract

Technical Writer
Contract: 1 year plus
Remote Work

Our client is looking for a tech writer to create online help for a consumer audience.

The software product is a rewrite/reimagining of an existing product, an ERP system for project-based businesses. It will include apps for accounting, CRM, resource planning, HR, payroll, billing - basically everything that a project-based business need to run its front and back office. It is being built specifically for cloud deployment, in HTML5.

For online help, the writers use DITA and a content management system from SDL called Live Content Architect. They are embedded in agile teams and work side by side with designers, developers, and QE and UX people.

The emphasis on user self-sufficiency: making it easy for customers to get up and running on the product without a lot of hand-holding. Therefore, we are focusing a lot on ease of use and on robust documentation and self-directed learning.

Qualifications:

• Very strong English skills

Experience documenting API's, REST, JSON etc is highly preferred

• Ability to work as an embedded member of a development team and gather information from designers, developers, and others. (Exposure to agile development is a plus.)
• Experience writing about software for a non-technical, end-user audience.
• Experience writing online help. (Knowledge of DITA is a plus.)
• Exposure to accounting or other business applications.

The tools they use are:

• XMetaL (for DITA authoring)
• SDL Live Content Architect (for component content management)
• RoboHelp (for older help systems)
• Microsoft Word

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