Federal Communications Specialist with Security Clearance

The Building People; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical & Rx

Dental

Vision

Flexible Spending Accounts

401(k) Retirement Plan

Life Insurance/AD&D

Long Term Disability and Short-Term DI

Job summary

The Building People seeks a Communications Specialist to support the CMEI communications team for the U.S. Department of Energy\'s Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation programs.

The role focuses on external and internal engagement, crafting memos, briefing leadership, and coordinating events with federal agencies and stakeholders. Responsibilities include strategic planning, tracking engagements, developing agency profiles, and collaborating with the CMEI and FEMP teams to elevate program

Qualifications

• 8 (eight) years' experience. Master's Degree may be substituted for two (2) years of experience.
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Strong writing and editing skills
• Strong oral communication skills
• Detailed oriented; able to track multiple projects and tasks.
• Bachelor's Degree Preferred Experience & Skills
• Energy industry knowledge a plus

Responsibilities

• Leads stakeholder engagement strategic planning and implementation activities, including identifying priority stakeholders, goals, outreach tactics, and outcomes.
• Creates and maintains system for FEMP to strategically track agency engagements and help prioritize agencies, regions, sites.
• Develop federal agency "profiles" to show performance, challenges, use of FEMP programs, EPC activity, and opportunities.
• Facilitates Senior leadership meetings and strategic planning.
• Supports federal clients in building and maintaining strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Has strong understanding of the federal and energy landscape. Supports short‑term and long‑term engagement goals.
• Identifies opportunities to increase reach to target audiences.
• Analyzes tactics and develops best practices and new strategies to support FEMP goals.
• Maintains awareness of CMEI announcements, programs, projects, and activities.
• Coordinates with communications team on strategic initiatives and amplification strategies.
• Performs analysis and develops briefing summaries for high‑ranking CMEI staff on stakeholder events they plan to attend.
• Review CMEI
• Organize or participate in (virtual or in‑person) conferences, workshops, peer reviews, interagency meetings, and other program meetings and develop summary documents that track action items and/or outcomes.
• Conduct background research and write memos for leadership regarding stakeholder requests and events they plan to attend.
• Monitor stakeholder inbox, track inquires, close out responses, and provide weekly updates to leadership and full stakeholder team.

Skills

Strong writing and editing skills

Strong oral communication skills

Detail oriented

Microsoft Office Suite

Education

Bachelor's Degree Preferred

Master's Degree may substitute 2 years experience

Job description

The Building People seeks a Communications Specialist to support the CMEI communications team for the U.S. Department of Energy\'s Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation programs.

The role focuses on external and internal engagement, crafting memos, briefing leadership, and coordinating events with federal agencies and stakeholders. Responsibilities include strategic planning, tracking engagements, developing agency profiles, and collaborating with the CMEI and FEMP teams to elevate program