2026 Associate Employee Communications Representative Falls Church VA

Northrop Grumman; Falls Church (VA); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Northrop Grumman seeks an Employee Communications Representative to inform and inspire employees and drive business priorities. The role focuses on storytelling across articles, videos, interviews, and concise announcements, partnering with leaders to craft talking points and speeches.

You’ll support internal communications, digital content, and events while maintaining brand alignment and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Onsite with some telework, Falls Church, VA.

Qualifications

• Entry level with bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, English or related field.
• Experience in employee or executive communications.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong judgement and attention to detail.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite (Word, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).

Responsibilities

• Inform and inspire employees and drive business priorities across the enterprise.
• Develop, implement and measure employee, executive, culture and change communications plans and tactics.
• Be a storyteller: conceptualize and produce a wide array of content (articles, videos, interviews, Q&As, infographics).
• Write, edit and distribute strategic announcements, news items, digital content and videos.
• Serve as a partner and trusted advisor to business partners with talking points and scripts.
• Collaborate with other communications teams to align messaging.
• Support maintenance of internal websites and digital signage monitors.
• Assist with event content and logistics.
• Support internal and external communications tactics (webinars, town halls, industry events).
• Support social media campaigns to promote strategic priorities.
• Ensure communications align with the company brand and vision.
• Provide surge support to business sector communications as needed.

Skills

Excellent writing

Editing

Storytelling

Attention to detail

AP Style knowledge

Analytical mindset

Communication counsel

Education

Bachelor's degree in Communications/Journalism/English or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

SharePoint

Adobe Suite

HTML basics

Job description

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance availableCLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR START: NoCLEARANCE TYPE: NoneTRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation’s history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way.

Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they’re making history.

Northrop Grumman’s Employee Communications team seeks a creative Employee Communications Representative who helps inform and inspire employees and drives business priorities across the company. We’re looking for someone who has a can-do attitude and is willing to lean in and gain confidence in being a strategic advisor, thrives on the challenge of informing and inspiring employees around business priorities and culture, loves storytelling and constantly seeks to improve through disciplined measurement, analysis and adjustment.

This position reports to the Employee Communications manager for the Northrop Grumman Functional Communications team and located at our Falls Church, VA, site. This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80 schedule, which allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday and take every other Friday off.

This position is primarily onsite with some telework is allowed.

In this job, you’ll:

• Inform and inspire employees and drive business priorities across the enterprise.
• Develop, implement and measure employee, executive, culture and change communications plans and tactics.
• Be a storyteller: Conceptualize, procure and produce a wide array of inspirational content about our people, technologies, successes and business capabilities. Content will range from articles and videos, to interviews, Q&As, brief/catchy lists, infographics, and photo/caption features.
• Write, edit, distribute and measure strategic and timely business announcements, news items, digital content, articles and videos.
• Serve as a partner and trusted advisor to business partners. Develop and measure leaders’ announcements, talking points, speeches, video scripts and speaker prep memos.
• Partner with other communications teams across the enterprise to align on and amplify messaging
• Support maintenance of internal websites and digital signage monitors.
• Support event content and logistics.
• Support internal and external communications tactics (i.e., executive speaking prep, webinars, town halls, industry events).
• Support social media campaigns to promote strategic business priorities.
• Ensure all communications plans and tactics are consistent with the company’s strategic vision and reflect the Northrop Grumman brand.
• Operate as surge support when needed to business sector communications team.

You’ll be a great fit if you:

• Have excellent writing and editing skills, and an enthusiasm for telling inspirational stories with words, videos, photos and graphics.
• Live by prioritization and organization and possess superior attention to detail.
• Are positive, poised and approachable, able to work independently and in partnership with others, and confident in offering communications counsel to business partners.
• Thrive in fast-paced, action-oriented environments and able to juggle multiple projects simultaneously, reprioritize quickly and meet deadlines.
• Enjoy translating complex and technical topics into easily understandable and interesting stories.
• Have experience with Associated Press Style.
• Have a demonstrated understanding of modern communications topics, tools and trends.
• Are creative and tech-savvy, and willing to challenge the status quo to propose and pilot new, creative solutions, tools and technologies using strategic rationale and business need to build your case.
• Love data – and using analytics to not only measure your success, but to modify your approach and drive positive change.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Entry level with bachelor’s degree preferably in Communications, Journalism, English, Political Science or a related field.
• Experience in employee or executive communications.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong judgement, problem solving and organizational skills, and superb attention to detail.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite (Word, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with Associated Press Style
• Familiarity with social tools, email measurement tools, website content management systems, including SharePoint, the Adobe Suite of products is a plus, as is a basic understand of HTML.
• Experience producing omni-channel editorial content for a newspaper, news channel, video, magazine or other venue.

The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.Northrop Grumman is an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO and pay transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.