Description review

DMEx Information Officer

University of Manchester · Manchester, United Kingdom · back to the listing

HR standards

27/100

poor

Title ↔ description

45/100

poor

Reads as

Technical Writer

95% confident

What this role officially is

technical communicator — ESCO, the EU occupation classification

Technical communicators prepare clear, concise and professional communication from product developers to users of the products such as online help, user manuals, white papers, specifications and industrial videos. For this, they analyse products, legal requirements, markets, customers and users. They develop information and media concepts, standards, structures and software tool support. They plan the content creation and media production processes, develop written, graphical, video or other contents, generate media output, release their information products and receive feedback from the users.

Also known as: technical editor, technical documentation author, senior technical communicator, technical communicators, technical content developer, user experience designer

How others title the same work

Large employers

  • Technical Author (multiple roles and seniority levels) Canonical Ltd.
  • Manager I, Documentation Datadog

What the listing never says

  • No section describes what the person would actually do. Scope clarity
  • No pay range published. Candidates cannot tell whether applying is worth their time. Pay transparency
  • No location or timezone policy stated, so a candidate cannot tell where they may work from. Scope clarity

The listing, marked up

Nothing in the wording of this listing tripped a check. The scores above still judge how complete and coherent it is.

The Defence Materials Centre of Excellence (DMEx) is expanding as our programme continues to accelerate. We are excited to be recruiting an Information Officer to join our growing team, supporting the next phase of development and maturity of this major Dstl-funded national research centre. This new post forms part of the continued development of DMEx's operational capability as the Centre grows in scale, complexity, and ambition. As our…

How this was produced

Highlights are found by rule, not by a model: each one is a phrase matched at a known position, and every note is a template we wrote. The two scores come from a typed-decision model (Jev) that reads the listing against the official role definition and real listings for the same role, and returns probabilities rather than prose — it never writes any of the words on this page, and never chooses what to highlight.

Deterministic penalty applied to the HR score: 16 points (from 43 before penalties). Reviewed 30 Sep 2026.