Top Writing Jobs in Ottawa

Plans, writes, reviews, validates, formats, and maintains technical documentation for complex systems and projects. Produces user manuals, help text, requirements documentation, web content, diagrams, and related materials. Collaborates with developers, subject matter experts, project teams, and stakeholders to gather information, define documentation scope, ensure accuracy and usability, coordinate reviews, incorporate feedback, and deliver final documentation throughout the project lifecycle.

Manages end-to-end Canadian federal government bids, including bid strategy, bid/no-bid decisions, proposal writing, quality assurance, timelines, collaboration, RFP monitoring, reporting, and contract vehicle updates. The role guides proposal teams, improves bid processes, and ensures compliant, high-quality submissions. Candidates need five-plus years of Canadian federal government proposal experience, knowledge of procurement processes, strong writing and project-management skills, and proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and AI tools.

Attend virtual and on-site meetings, produce concise and accurate minutes, and format and finalize meeting documentation. Minute Takers serve clients across industries, with approximately one to two meetings per week. Mandatory self-guided training is provided. The role requires strong writing, critical thinking, attention to detail, Ottawa-area residence, and openness to local or out-of-town travel. Work is flexible and part-time, with no guarantee of full-time or permanent hours.

Own and rebuild Blackpoint Cyber’s customer-facing knowledge base, including approximately 150 article rewrites and 100 new articles. Define documentation standards, information architecture, publishing governance, and AI-ready content structures. Collaborate with technical SMEs, validate procedures against products, use support analytics to prioritize content, and align documentation with product releases. Ensure accurate, retrieval-friendly documentation for internal teams, customers, MSP partners, and AI-assisted support workflows.

Develop, edit, maintain, and govern technical documentation for satellite user terminal engineering products. Translate complex engineering information into clear requirements, design, verification, installation, and service documents. Coordinate reviews, stakeholder feedback, version control, configuration management, and requirements traceability. Collaborate with engineers, product managers, suppliers, and subject matter experts while improving documentation standards, workflows, reuse, automation, and content organization.

Creates and edits long-form instructional content for transportation-industry training courses. Researches regulatory and HR topics, develops outlines, storyboards, tests, and audio scripts, and collaborates with translators, designers, and voice-over artists to produce online learning materials. Reviews and refines content for accuracy, clarity, grammar, and engagement while participating in customer-site photoshoots, industry events, and occasional in-person meetings.

Writes payer-focused market access deliverables, including value dossiers, publications, and reports, using evidence-based medicine, health economics, outcomes research, and public policy principles. Conducts literature searches, evidence reviews, and secondary research across therapy areas. Collaborates with Evidence & Access teams in a fast-paced agency environment, managing multiple projects, deadlines, client needs, and quality standards.

Develop and execute B2B marketing content across blogs, white papers, case studies, websites, email, social media, sales enablement, webinars, and thought leadership. Translate complex cybersecurity, digital identity, and digital trust topics into accessible business-focused messaging. Collaborate with product marketing, sales, subject matter experts, and leadership; manage content calendars; conduct keyword research; optimize SEO; track performance; and recommend improvements that increase engagement, lead generation, conversion, brand credibility, and customer education.

Create monthly investor insights, investment materials, financial planning content, and timely market notes for Wealthsimple clients. Research market developments, synthesize complex investment concepts into clear and engaging writing, exercise editorial judgment, and use AI tools to refine standard content. The role partners with investment and editorial teams while requiring strong financial literacy, investment judgment, curiosity, independence, and familiarity with Canadian wealth management or retail investment products.

Research, write, validate, and maintain technical procedures, maintenance instructions, operating procedures, circulars, and equipment manuals for rail fleet operations. Interpret engineering documents, ensure compliance with HSE and regulatory standards, optimize maintenance processes, develop KPIs, validate procedures, and prepare recurring operational reports while collaborating with management, suppliers, customers, partners, and unionized maintenance personnel.

Write and edit accessible journalism about AI for a general audience. Responsibilities include pitching ideas, drafting articles, editing researchers’ and writers’ work, setting editorial standards, and helping launch a consistent media program. The founding editor will shape editorial direction and clarify technical material without oversimplifying it.

Create and maintain user-oriented technical documentation for PostgreSQL products, including installation, configuration, troubleshooting, user guides, manuals, man pages, help prompts, and release notes. Collaborate with engineering, product, development, QA, and documentation teams in a distributed docs-as-code environment. Use Markdown, version control, diagrams, AI tools, and documentation testing practices while contributing to documentation strategy and potentially open-source projects.

Embedded within product teams, own and drive developer-facing documentation from concept to release. Collaborate with engineers, PMs, and designers, become a subject-matter expert, improve docs via analytics and feedback, and contribute to docs tooling and standards for Camunda's AI-oriented platform.

Create long-form YouTube content: define strategy, spot trends, generate video ideas, write scripts and titles, collaborate with editors, repurpose content across platforms, upload videos, and aim to grow customers and channel reach.

Produce reproducible technical benchmarks and long-form content by coding tests, running and tracking measurements over time, testing no-code/agent tools, improving docs, and publishing data-backed comparisons that rank and convert. Use AI to accelerate work but verify every claim and provide code and datasets for reproducibility.

The Proposal Writer will manage the proposal lifecycle, analyze funding opportunities, collaborate with teams to gather information, craft compelling narratives, and ensure timely submissions for grants and proposals.

Write original, human-authored Oromo texts across subject domains following provided prompts. Maintain originality (no AI/translation), attest authorship, respect confidentiality, and deliver timely submissions as an independent contractor.

Produce original, human‑authored Amharic texts across specified domains following provided prompts. Maintain originality (no AI/translation), attest authorship, adhere to confidentiality, meet deadlines, and complete required onboarding assessments.

Produce original, human-authored Tamil texts across subject domains following provided prompts. Ensure strict originality (no AI/translation/copying), attest to authenticity, maintain confidentiality, meet deadlines and minimum availability, and work independently as a 1099 contractor.

Produce original, human-authored Somali-language texts across specified domains following provided prompts. Ensure originality (no AI/translation), attest to authorship, maintain confidentiality, and deliver timely, high-quality writing with appropriate style and tone.

Produce original, human-authored Yoruba texts across specified domains from provided prompts to support language-data and AI evaluation. Follow confidentiality rules, attest originality, meet deadlines, and work independently with domain-appropriate style and tone.

Produce original, human-authored Telugu text samples per provided prompts across subject domains. Follow confidentiality and originality rules, attest to authenticity, work independently on tasks, complete assessments and onboarding, and meet minimum availability requirements.

Produce original, human-authored Kirundi text samples per provided prompts across subject domains (law, business, religion, poetry, etc.). Ensure originality (no AI/translation), attest to authenticity, follow confidentiality, and deliver quality writing on schedule as an independent contractor.

Produce original, human-authored Urdu text samples per provided prompts across subject domains. Ensure originality (no AI or translation tools), attest authenticity, follow confidentiality, and deliver timely, domain-appropriate writing with correct style and tone.

Produce original, human-authored Wolof texts following provided prompts across subject domains. Ensure originality (no AI/translation), attest to authorship, maintain confidentiality, and meet delivery and quality requirements as an independent contractor.