Performance Audit Report Writer
Division
Performance Audit
Starting Salary
Depending on experience:
With Bachelor's degree $80,000-$117,000
With Master's degree $83,000-$120,000
Key Responsibilities
- Make a positive difference for the State of Arizona by crafting impactful and compelling findings, recommendations, and reports, for our performance audits, which assess whether public entities are using resources wisely and complying with laws, regulations, and standards.
- Employ good organizational skills to efficiently plan report writing.
- Use strong analytical skills to summarize detailed audit evidence and ensure available evidence reinforces your ideas.
- Review audit reports, provide constructive feedback, and recommend revisions to ensure reports are supported, organized, well written, and easy to understand.
- Work daily with audit teams throughout the report development and drafting process to coach, develop, and assist others to produce clear, concise, reader-friendly writing.
- Develop and conduct writing and editing training.
- Manage multiple projects and deadlines while maintaining precise, accurate, and detail-oriented results.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in communications, English, public relations, journalism, political science, business administration, or similar field.
- 2 years of paid professional writing experience, preferably relating to audit, investigative, or news reporting.
- Outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to work in teams.
- Excellent analytical, research, critical thinking, time management, and communication skills.
- Ability to make quick and independent decisions, solve problems, and work under pressure.
- Strong interest in public service and improving State government.
- Willingness to work in-person with daily office attendance.