Communications Specialist

Digital Cloak, LLC; Stafford (VA); Remote; USD 115,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Cloak, LLC seeks a Communications Specialist to support a federal program with duties including outreach, education, training, marketing, content development, and reports for government clients. You will author content, manage communications materials, and present information to stakeholders under close supervision.

The role requires clear writing, strong editing, and proficiency with Microsoft Office; US Citizenship and DHS clearance suitability is required.

Qualifications

• Strong writing, editing, proofreading, layout and design skills.
• Ability to translate complex concepts into clear written material.
• Adapt communication to audience and venue (leadership vs non-leadership).
• Active listening and detailed responses.
• Organize and prioritize many tasks while keeping leadership informed.
• Pivot work to changing customer needs.
• Proficiency with PowerPoint and other MS Office products.

Responsibilities

• Develop a communications engagement strategy based on the existing plan.
• Schedule regular outreach exhibitions and educate government users on community responsibility.
• Represent the organization externally in user community events and activities.
• Create a stakeholder and user community communication strategy and annual plan.
• Organize meetings, events, and opportunities to raise the organization’s profile.
• Relay user feedback to clients and stakeholders.
• Contribute to status reports and progress presentations.
• Analyze SharePoint content and recommend improvements.

Skills

Writing & editing

Layout & design

Content development

Stakeholder comms

Project leadership

PowerPoint

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

SharePoint

Job description

Associate: Early-career professionals or individuals new to the role who are developing foundational skills and applying competencies in structured, supervised situations.

• Performs assigned tasks with guidance, applying the competency in basic, structured ways to support learning and build foundational skills.
• Handles routine, well-defined problems or assignments.
• Requires supervision and support to complete work accurately.
• Collaborates with immediate team members and seeks clarification when needed.
• Contributes to project success through reliable task execution and consistency.

Job Summary

Under the direct supervision of the project Program Manager and Deputy Program Manager, the Communications Specialist provides support directly to our customer, which comprises a federal staff of four, including an Outreach Lead. The Communications Specialist will work most closely with the Outreach Lead and provide support executing the office’s near-term plans that include activities such as outreach, education, training, marketing, relationship building, website content development, and creation of reports and presentations. The Communications Specialist also directly supports the office Director (examples include development of talking points and/or talk tracks, engaging stakeholders on the Director’s behalf). The Communications Specialist will need to author original content and manage the development of content in support of communications materials developed for government clients. In this role, you will have the opportunity to interact with a diverse group of individuals across all levels of the government’s General Schedule because of the mission of our federal customer.

Essential Functions

• Develop a communications engagement strategy based on the existing communications plan and oversee the associated activities.
• Schedule regular outreach exhibitions in the community and educate government users on community responsibility.
• Represent the organization externally in user community engagement program related activities and events.
• Create a stakeholder and user community communication strategy and an annual implementation plan.
• Organize meetings, events, and seekout opportunities to make our organization's presence known.
• Relay user community feedback to clients, internal and external stakeholders.
• Contribute to development of status reports, presentations summarizing progress against program goals, objectives.
• Analyze SharePoint website and recommend strategies for improving content and messaging.
• Liaise with other departments, offices, stakeholders, collaborative partners to nurture relationships and facilitate discussions.
• Present information to clients, senior leadership, stakeholders, users in both formal and informal settings.
• Maintain a calendar of outreach activities, workshops, appearances, and other communications opportunities.

Required Knowledge, Skills Abilities

• Possess strong writing, editing, proofreading, layout and design skills.
• Possess the ability to -
  • translate complex concepts into easily understood written documentation.
  • verbalize complex concepts at the appropriate level based on audience (e.g., leadership vs non-leadership) and venue (e.g., formal vs informal meetings, presentations, one-on-one conversations).
  • listen actively during conversations, meetings, presentations and other forms of engagement and respondaccurately with an appropriate amount of detail.
  • organize and prioritize many simultaneous tasks while keeping both company leadership and client leadership well informed of progress.
  • pivot work quickly and adjust work outputs to reflect changing needs of the customer.
• Understandhow to create informational documents in various formats (reports, presentations, web-based content) across different platforms (e.g., Microsoft Office products, websites, social media) and how to maximize the benefits of each approach.
• Understandhow to build or improve stakeholder relations through targeted outreach.
• Proficiency leading projects individually with minimal direction.
• Proficiency with PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office Products (Word, Teams, Excel).

Preferred Knowledge, Skills Abilities

• Possessa friendly, enthusiastic, and positive attitude.
• Detail-orientated with the ability to manage multiple projects at a time.
• Self-starter who thrives on thinking outside the box in highly dynamic environment and works well in a team setting.
• Problem solver with a strong results-driven focus.

Other Duties

• This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Required Education, Certificates/Licenses, Related Experience

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
• 3- 6 years of related experience

Physical Job Requirements

• This position requires the ability to remain in a stationary position (standing and/or seated) more than half the time.
• This position requires the ability to spend more than half the time viewing computer monitors.

Citizenship/Clearance Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• DHS Suitability is required.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain favorable suitability/fitness adjudication from federal customer.
• Must be able to pass a standard background check.

Telework Availability

• Until further notice, this position will remain in a remote telework posture with the potential for weekly meetings on-site at the client’s location.

Salary Range

$115,000 - $140,000

Primary Work Location

This position is based in Washington, D.C.

Travel Requirements

• Example: This position requires 5% travel.

Disability Specifications

• Digital Cloak will make reasonable accommodations in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

Digital Cloak is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status. Digital Cloak is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need special assistance or an accommodation while seeking employment, please email [e-mail] We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.