Science Writer
for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We must preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail.
Let's extract content.
About The Role paragraph: "The Science Writer supports the missions of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF | NCAR) by translating our work into compelling stories that showcase the value of our research to the nation and the world for a wide variety of audiences. Under the direction of the Manager of Science Communications, the Science Writer is responsible for cultivating relationships with scientists and staff across the organization, identifying research and other work that have strong story hooks, and translating that work into communications products that resonate with our key audiences, which include the general public, media, policymakers, potential funders, end users, community managers, and others. The Science Writer collaborates with other members of the Communications Office to extend the way we tell our story, expanding our storytelling efforts beyond traditional news releases and web stories to possibly include video, audio, or other formats."
That's prose.
Responsibilities: "What You Will Do Here is a brief summary of what one would expect to be generally responsible for in this role." Then bullet-like paragraphs: Story Development, Writing and Editing, Communications Training and Consulting, Other Duties As Assigned. Each has sentences.
We need to turn each bullet into
- . The content includes multiple sentences; we can keep them as is inside
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Story Development: "Stays informed about recent research directions, findings, and breakthroughs by building strong relationships with scientists, leadership, and other staff across the organization.Identifies research, projects, and other work that is well suited for coverage by the Communications Office in support of the organization’s strategic goals.Works to understand the fundamentals of Earth system science so that research findings can be put into the appropriate context and so that progress can be communicated accurately and with as much impact as possible."
Note missing spaces after periods; we keep as is.
Writing and Editing: "Translates technical research into compelling stories that are aimed at specific audiences to meet clear goals. Produces a wide variety of communications products, including news releases, leadership talking points, web content, brochures, one-pagers, newsletters, and more.Thinks beyond the traditional news release and web story to find creative ways to communicate the value of our science. This could include videos, podcasts, infographics, or other new media platforms.Edits other stories and materials produced by both the Communications Office and by other groups across NSF NCAR and UCAR."
Communications Training and Consulting: "Consults and collaborates with other externally facing groups — including Government Relations, External Engagement, Business Relations, and others — to identify goals and to tailor effective messages for specific audiences. Helps implement a variety of formal and informal trainings that help scientists better communicate their own work, including how to create effective talking points, tailor their message, implement best practices for presentations, and work with the news media."
Other Duties As Assigned: "Backs up a number of other roles in the Communications Office as needs arise."
Requirements: Education and Experience: "Bachelor's degree in journalism, communications, or related field;six years of writing and/or editing experience;or an equivalent combination of education and experience."
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: list of items separated by line breaks? It's a paragraph with many items separated by line breaks? Actually it's a block: "Considerable writing and editing skillsUnderstanding of, and enthusiasm for, Earth system science and the ability to explain its importance and value to societyExcellent skill at interviewing scientific and technical professionalsAbility to identify, gather, understand, assimilate, and coordinate complex scientific and technical information and to articulate it clearly and accurately for multiple audiences across multiple platformsAbility to identify and articulate what research is newsworthy and can help us tell our story in support of our missionHighly developed interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong relationships with scientists and staff across the organizationHigh level of organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to balance multiple tasks under tight deadlinesAbility to interface and collaborate with peers at sister institutions, professional societies, and federal agencies, and to work internally with a variety of staff at all levelsExperience telling science stories in non-traditional formats, which could include video, graphics, audio, or other forms."
We need to turn each skill into
- . The text lacks punctuation; we can split by capital letters? Better to keep as one paragraph? But rule: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. This is a list of skills; we should make list items. However the original lacks clear delimiters. We could treat each sentence as item, but there are no periods. Could insert
- for each phrase separated by a capital letter after a lowercase? That's risky. Perhaps we keep as
for the Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities section, as it's not a clear list. But instruction says use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. This is a list of abilities; we could still use
if not clearly list. Safer to keep as
.
Pay: "Hiring Salary Range: $73,520 - $91,910". Also earlier "Hiring Range: 72,082.00 USD - 90,103.00 USD". There are two ranges; we need to preserve all substantive info. Which one is correct? The posting includes both: earlier "Hiring Range: 72,082.00 USD - 90,103.00 USD". Later "Preferred Qualifications Hiring Salary Range: $73,520 - $91,910". Both are salary info. We should include both? Might be duplicate but we should preserve all. Could combine? Better to include both as separate statements. We'll put in Pay section: two ranges.
Benefits: "Benefits Overview UCAR offers a comprehensive benefits package: health insurance, dental, retirement plan, leave plans, tuition assistance, and employee assistance programs: Medical, Dental, Vision, and Short & Long Term Disability InsuranceGenerous retirement plan - UCAR contributes of 10% of base salaryTime Off PlansMinimum 20 days of annual PTO10 paid holidays12 weeks of paid parental leaveFAMLI Leave Tuition Assistance ProgramPublic Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employer"
We need to format as list items.
We must remove boilerplate like EEO, etc. Also remove "Application Closes at 12:00am MST on: 2026-10-12" etc. Also remove "Application Deadline: This position will be posted until 12 am MDT (at the beginning of) Monday, October 12, 2026." etc. Also remove "Required application materials:" etc. Also remove "Background Checks:" etc. Also remove "Work Location:" etc. Also remove "Preferred Qualifications" heading? We already used salary range there; we can keep the salary info under Pay, not as separate heading.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
Now construct HTML.
Structure:
About the Role
...
Responsibilities
- Story Development: Stays informed about recent research directions, findings, and breakthroughs by building strong relationships with scientists, leadership, and other staff across the organization.Identifies research, projects, and other work that is well suited for coverage by the Communications Office in support of the organization’s strategic goals.Works to understand the fundamentals of Earth system science so that research findings can be put into the appropriate context and so that progress can be communicated accurately and with as much impact as possible.
- Writing and Editing: Translates technical research into compelling stories that are aimed at specific audiences to meet clear goals. Produces a wide variety of communications products, including news releases, leadership talking points, web content, brochures, one-pagers, newsletters, and more.Thinks beyond the traditional news release and web story to find creative ways to communicate the value of our science. This could include videos, podcasts, infographics, or other new media platforms.Edits other stories and materials produced by both the Communications Office and by other groups across NSF NCAR and UCAR.
- Communications Training and Consulting: Consults and collaborates with other externally facing groups — including Government Relations, External Engagement, Business Relations, and others — to identify goals and to tailor effective messages for specific audiences. Helps implement a variety of formal and informal trainings that help scientists better communicate their own work, including how to create effective talking points, tailor their message, implement best practices for presentations, and work with the news media.
- Other Duties As Assigned: Backs up a number of other roles in the Communications Office as needs arise.
Requirements
Education and Experience: Bachelor's degree in journalism, communications, or related field;six years of writing and/or editing experience;or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Considerable writing and editing skillsUnderstanding of, and enthusiasm for, Earth system science and the ability to explain its importance and value to societyExcellent skill at interviewing scientific and technical professionalsAbility to identify, gather, understand, assimilate, and coordinate complex scientific and technical information and to articulate it clearly and accurately for multiple audiences across multiple platformsAbility to identify and articulate what research is newsworthy and can help us tell our story in support of our missionHighly developed interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong relationships with scientists and staff across the organizationHigh level of organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to balance multiple tasks under tight deadlinesAbility to interface and collaborate with peers at sister institutions, professional societies, and federal agencies, and to work internally with a variety of staff at all levelsExperience telling science stories in non-traditional formats, which could include video, graphics, audio, or other forms.
Pay
Hiring Range: 72,082.00 USD - 90,103.00 USD
Hiring Salary Range: $73,520 - $91,910
Final salary and rates are based on education, experience, and skills relevant to the role.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental
- Retirement plan
- Leave plans
- Tuition assistance
- Employee assistance programs
- Medical, Dental, Vision, and Short & Long Term Disability Insurance
- Generous retirement plan - UCAR contributes 10%
for prose. We must preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. Let's extract content. About The Role paragraph: "The Science Writer supports the missions of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF | NCAR) by translating our work into compelling stories that showcase the value of our research to the nation and the world for a wide variety of audiences. Under the direction of the Manager of Science Communications, the Science Writer is responsible for cultivating relationships with scientists and staff across the organization, identifying research and other work that have strong story hooks, and translating that work into communications products that resonate with our key audiences, which include the general public, media, policymakers, potential funders, end users, community managers, and others. The Science Writer collaborates with other members of the Communications Office to extend the way we tell our story, expanding our storytelling efforts beyond traditional news releases and web stories to possibly include video, audio, or other formats." That's prose. Responsibilities: "What You Will Do Here is a brief summary of what one would expect to be generally responsible for in this role." Then bullet-like paragraphs: Story Development, Writing and Editing, Communications Training and Consulting, Other Duties As Assigned. Each has sentences. We need to turn each bullet into
- . The content includes multiple sentences; we can keep them as is inside
- . Story Development: "Stays informed about recent research directions, findings, and breakthroughs by building strong relationships with scientists, leadership, and other staff across the organization.Identifies research, projects, and other work that is well suited for coverage by the Communications Office in support of the organization’s strategic goals.Works to understand the fundamentals of Earth system science so that research findings can be put into the appropriate context and so that progress can be communicated accurately and with as much impact as possible." Note missing spaces after periods; we keep as is. Writing and Editing: "Translates technical research into compelling stories that are aimed at specific audiences to meet clear goals. Produces a wide variety of communications products, including news releases, leadership talking points, web content, brochures, one-pagers, newsletters, and more.Thinks beyond the traditional news release and web story to find creative ways to communicate the value of our science. This could include videos, podcasts, infographics, or other new media platforms.Edits other stories and materials produced by both the Communications Office and by other groups across NSF NCAR and UCAR." Communications Training and Consulting: "Consults and collaborates with other externally facing groups — including Government Relations, External Engagement, Business Relations, and others — to identify goals and to tailor effective messages for specific audiences. Helps implement a variety of formal and informal trainings that help scientists better communicate their own work, including how to create effective talking points, tailor their message, implement best practices for presentations, and work with the news media." Other Duties As Assigned: "Backs up a number of other roles in the Communications Office as needs arise." Requirements: Education and Experience: "Bachelor's degree in journalism, communications, or related field;six years of writing and/or editing experience;or an equivalent combination of education and experience." Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: list of items separated by line breaks? It's a paragraph with many items separated by line breaks? Actually it's a block: "Considerable writing and editing skillsUnderstanding of, and enthusiasm for, Earth system science and the ability to explain its importance and value to societyExcellent skill at interviewing scientific and technical professionalsAbility to identify, gather, understand, assimilate, and coordinate complex scientific and technical information and to articulate it clearly and accurately for multiple audiences across multiple platformsAbility to identify and articulate what research is newsworthy and can help us tell our story in support of our missionHighly developed interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong relationships with scientists and staff across the organizationHigh level of organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to balance multiple tasks under tight deadlinesAbility to interface and collaborate with peers at sister institutions, professional societies, and federal agencies, and to work internally with a variety of staff at all levelsExperience telling science stories in non-traditional formats, which could include video, graphics, audio, or other forms." We need to turn each skill into
- . The text lacks punctuation; we can split by capital letters? Better to keep as one paragraph? But rule: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. This is a list of skills; we should make list items. However the original lacks clear delimiters. We could treat each sentence as item, but there are no periods. Could insert
- for each phrase separated by a capital letter after a lowercase? That's risky. Perhaps we keep as
for the Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities section, as it's not a clear list. But instruction says use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. This is a list of abilities; we could still use
if not clearly list. Safer to keep as
. Pay: "Hiring Salary Range: $73,520 - $91,910". Also earlier "Hiring Range: 72,082.00 USD - 90,103.00 USD". There are two ranges; we need to preserve all substantive info. Which one is correct? The posting includes both: earlier "Hiring Range: 72,082.00 USD - 90,103.00 USD". Later "Preferred Qualifications Hiring Salary Range: $73,520 - $91,910". Both are salary info. We should include both? Might be duplicate but we should preserve all. Could combine? Better to include both as separate statements. We'll put in Pay section: two ranges. Benefits: "Benefits Overview UCAR offers a comprehensive benefits package: health insurance, dental, retirement plan, leave plans, tuition assistance, and employee assistance programs: Medical, Dental, Vision, and Short & Long Term Disability InsuranceGenerous retirement plan - UCAR contributes of 10% of base salaryTime Off PlansMinimum 20 days of annual PTO10 paid holidays12 weeks of paid parental leaveFAMLI Leave Tuition Assistance ProgramPublic Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employer" We need to format as list items. We must remove boilerplate like EEO, etc. Also remove "Application Closes at 12:00am MST on: 2026-10-12" etc. Also remove "Application Deadline: This position will be posted until 12 am MDT (at the beginning of) Monday, October 12, 2026." etc. Also remove "Required application materials:" etc. Also remove "Background Checks:" etc. Also remove "Work Location:" etc. Also remove "Preferred Qualifications" heading? We already used salary range there; we can keep the salary info under Pay, not as separate heading. We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. Now construct HTML. Structure:
About the Role
...
Responsibilities
- Story Development: Stays informed about recent research directions, findings, and breakthroughs by building strong relationships with scientists, leadership, and other staff across the organization.Identifies research, projects, and other work that is well suited for coverage by the Communications Office in support of the organization’s strategic goals.Works to understand the fundamentals of Earth system science so that research findings can be put into the appropriate context and so that progress can be communicated accurately and with as much impact as possible.
- Writing and Editing: Translates technical research into compelling stories that are aimed at specific audiences to meet clear goals. Produces a wide variety of communications products, including news releases, leadership talking points, web content, brochures, one-pagers, newsletters, and more.Thinks beyond the traditional news release and web story to find creative ways to communicate the value of our science. This could include videos, podcasts, infographics, or other new media platforms.Edits other stories and materials produced by both the Communications Office and by other groups across NSF NCAR and UCAR.
- Communications Training and Consulting: Consults and collaborates with other externally facing groups — including Government Relations, External Engagement, Business Relations, and others — to identify goals and to tailor effective messages for specific audiences. Helps implement a variety of formal and informal trainings that help scientists better communicate their own work, including how to create effective talking points, tailor their message, implement best practices for presentations, and work with the news media.
- Other Duties As Assigned: Backs up a number of other roles in the Communications Office as needs arise.
Requirements
Education and Experience: Bachelor's degree in journalism, communications, or related field;six years of writing and/or editing experience;or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Considerable writing and editing skillsUnderstanding of, and enthusiasm for, Earth system science and the ability to explain its importance and value to societyExcellent skill at interviewing scientific and technical professionalsAbility to identify, gather, understand, assimilate, and coordinate complex scientific and technical information and to articulate it clearly and accurately for multiple audiences across multiple platformsAbility to identify and articulate what research is newsworthy and can help us tell our story in support of our missionHighly developed interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong relationships with scientists and staff across the organizationHigh level of organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to balance multiple tasks under tight deadlinesAbility to interface and collaborate with peers at sister institutions, professional societies, and federal agencies, and to work internally with a variety of staff at all levelsExperience telling science stories in non-traditional formats, which could include video, graphics, audio, or other forms.
Pay
Hiring Range: 72,082.00 USD - 90,103.00 USD
Hiring Salary Range: $73,520 - $91,910
Final salary and rates are based on education, experience, and skills relevant to the role.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental
- Retirement plan
- Leave plans
- Tuition assistance
- Employee assistance programs
- Medical, Dental, Vision, and Short & Long Term Disability Insurance
- Generous retirement plan - UCAR contributes 10%
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. This is a list of abilities; we could still use