Cyber Range Content Production Associate

Ownership: 

• Support the HCR content production pipeline from source identification through adaptation, review, publication, and maintenance.  

• Maintain production standards, templates, and publishing workflows across HTML, LMS/CMS, and document-based formats.  

• Track content inventories, licensing records, version histories, and publication readiness.  

• Help ensure consistency, accessibility, and instructional quality across learning clusters and classroom activities.  

• Identify content gaps, production risks, and process improvements, and recommend practical solutions. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Evaluate open-source, partner, and internally developed content across multiple learning clusters for quality, licensing, and alignment with HCR priorities. 

• Adapt technical or incomplete source materials - spanning cybersecurity and non-cyber domains such as manufacturing, agriculture, and engineering - into clear teacher- and student-facing resources.  

• Build and format content using HCR templates, HTML, Markdown, and LMS/CMS tools.  

• Coordinate concurrent workstreams across clusters, deadlines, and review handoffs from intake through publication.  

• Conduct editorial, formatting, accessibility, and template-compliance QA before publishing.  

• Maintain organized content repositories, trackers, and version records across all active clusters. 

General Responsibilities: 

• Follow and help maintain HCR content standards, naming conventions, and publishing controls.  

• Maintain accurate records for sourcing, licensing, approvals, and releases.  

• Collaborate effectively across content, technical, and partner teams.  

• Communicate clearly about priorities, blockers, and review needs.  

• Stay current with instructional design, digital publishing, accessibility, and emerging learning technologies relevant to HCR's content clusters. 

Expected Outcomes: 

• HCR maintains a reliable, scalable content pipeline with clear review and publication practices.  

• Materials move efficiently from intake to classroom-ready release.  

• Content across clusters is consistent, organized, and aligned with HCR priorities.  

• Teacher-facing and student-facing resources are clear, accurate, and ready for classroom implementation.  

• The Content Manager gains capacity to focus on strategy, partner alignment, and instructional quality. 

Key Metrics: 

• Volume and quality of content moved through intake, review, and publication. 

• Accuracy of source, licensing, and version records. 

• Turnaround time and visibility across active workstreams. 

• Reduction in editorial, formatting, and technical/accessibility issues. 

Attributes: 

• Experienced writer, editor, and digital content producer with strong professional judgment. 

• Detail-oriented and organized, able to coordinate multiple priorities independently. 

• Able to turn complex or incomplete material into clear, usable content. 

• Collaborative and diplomatic with reviewers, contributors, and subject-matter experts. 

• Committed to accessibility, responsible sourcing, and quality assurance. 

• Comfortable ramping up on new technical domains outside cybersecurity as HCR expands into additional learning clusters. 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in instructional design, education, English, communications, technical writing, or a related field. 

• Three or more years of experience in instructional content development, technical writing, digital publishing, or LMS/CMS administration.  

• Demonstrated experience developing, editing, and publishing learner- or instructor-facing content across varied technical subject areas.  

• Hands-on experience with an LMS, CMS, or other structured publishing environment.  

• Working knowledge of HTML and Markdown.  

• Ability to quickly get up to speed on new technical or career-pathway domains (e.g., manufacturing, agriculture, engineering) and translate them into instructional content. 

• No background in cybersecurity required.