Governance & Strategic Comms Advisor - Manager

Lafayette Group; Washington, Baltimore (District of Columbia, MD); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Lafayette Group seeks a Senior Governance & Strategic Communications Advisor to support governance, strategy, and external-facing cybersecurity product releases. You will shape strategy, define goals, and develop fiscal year implementation plans while coordinating across government subdivisions and product teams.

The role requires extensive experience in strategic communications, governance materials, executive briefings, and cross-functional leadership. Hybrid work in Arlington, VA is available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field; Master’s preferred.
• Ten or more years of professional experience in strategic communications, governance, or strategic planning.
• Experience developing governance materials, reports, SOPs, CONOPS, or related documents.
• Experience supporting federal agency communications, external affairs, or stakeholder engagement operations.
• Experience writing materials for senior audiences.
• Strong project management with cross-functional coordination and risk escalation.
• Strong written and verbal communications, and ability to operate under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Develop strategy, governance processes, and fiscal year implementation plans.
• Coordinate with Task Force governance bodies; document decisions and actions.
• Plan and execute cross-government coordination, external affairs, and product release activities.
• Maintain awareness of plans, priorities, and product guidance to ensure alignment.
• Review external-facing products for strategic alignment and messaging opportunities.
• Identify dependencies, risks, gaps, and opportunities across product development.
• Maintain governance documentation, dashboards, and status updates.
• Develop leadership reports and updates on initiatives and roadmaps.
• Build relationships across subdivisions to enable coordination and decision-making.
• Provide clear written and verbal communications and deliverables with minimal oversight.

Skills

Strategic communications

Stakeholder management

Project management

Executive communications

Written communication

Verbal communication

Organizational skills

Risk management

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s preferred

Tools

ServiceNow

Job description

Job Description

Governance & Strategic Communications Advisor - Manager

Join our team of high-end strategy and management consultants and professionals who have served on the front lines of homeland security, law enforcement, criminal justice, emergency management, and the military. Have an immediate impact and grow your career quickly at the same time!

Job Summary

Lafayette Group is seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Governance & Strategic Communications Advisor to support government coordination, governance, and strategic planning for external-facing cybersecurity products and releases. This role will help develop strategy, define overarching goals and objectives, and create fiscal year implementation plans to drive measurable progress against cybersecurity product priorities. The Senior Advisor will support the three governance bodies requiring strong strategic communications skills, familiarity with cybersecurity topics, excellent stakeholder management, and the ability to help shape product concepts, roadmaps, workflows, and release planning. This role must help ensure more than 1,600 pieces of annual cybersecurity products and content are accurately captured, updated, and tracked as they move through a product development lifecycle, requiring attention to detail, strong judgment, critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and the ability to remain composed under pressure.

Job Responsibilities

• Support development and execution of the strategy, including overarching goals, objectives, governance processes, annual strategic product priorities, a Strategic Product Roadmap, and fiscal year implementation plans.
• Support Task Force governance bodies by preparing materials, coordinating meetings and planning sessions, tracking decisions, documenting outcomes, and managing follow-up actions.
• Coordinate across government subdivisions, External Affairs, product owners, subject matter experts, communications teams, and leadership stakeholders to support strategic product planning, release coordination, and shared situational awareness.
• Maintain awareness of strategic plans, annual operating plans, leadership priorities, and product guidance to ensure Task Force activities and product recommendations remain aligned.
• Review proposed external-facing products for strategic alignment, audience relevance, messaging opportunities, release timing, workflow status, and potential overlap with other client efforts.
• Identify and track interdependencies, redundancies, risks, gaps, delays, and opportunities across product development efforts to improve coordination, reduce duplication, and support timely escalation.
• Maintain Task Force documentation, including CONOPS, SOPs, work instructions, governance materials, decision logs, implementation trackers, project plans, action trackers, dashboards, and status updates.
• Maintain and update the Production Dashboards in ServiceNow to ensure products, content entries, owners, milestones, dependencies, statuses, and workflow updates are accurate and current as products move through the development lifecycle.
• Develop reporting products and leadership updates on major strategic initiatives, product coordination activities, roadmap progress, risks, and key decisions, including monthly reports, leadership notes, briefings, and internal communications products.
• Build and maintain strong relationships across subdivisions, governance bodies, product teams, communications teams, and other stakeholders to support effective coordination and decision-making.
• Provide clear written and verbal communications and produce high-quality deliverables with limited oversight in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
• Work through existing relationships and contract alignment to connect related efforts, identify and address information gaps, and improve customer service, stakeholder engagement, and information sharing at all levels.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, with Master’s preferred, in communications, public relations, marketing, business, cybersecurity, information systems, public administration, or a related field.
• Ten or more years of professional experience supporting strategic communications, governance, executive support, program management, or strategic planning.
• Experience developing strategies, implementation plans, governance materials, executive briefings, reports, SOPs, CONOPS, work instructions, or related documentation.
• Experience supporting federal agency communications, public affairs, external affairs, product coordination, or stakeholder engagement operations.
• Experience writing and reviewing a range of communications and coordination products for senior audiences.
• Demonstrated project management experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives, including developing project plans, managing timelines and dependencies, tracking decisions and deliverables, coordinating stakeholder input, and escalating risks to support timely execution.
• Strong understanding of communications best practices, product planning, stakeholder coordination, and cross-functional workflows.
• Ability to identify connections across programs, operations, products, timelines, risks, and stakeholder priorities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, meetings, products, and stakeholder requests with minimal supervision.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, sound judgment, and ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment.

Desired Qualifications

• Active TS security clearance and SCI eligibility; must have US citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain DHS Suitability (EOD).
• Experience supporting or advising senior-level government staff, including GS-15 and above or equivalent leadership.
• Experience supporting federal cybersecurity, national security, or critical infrastructure missions.
• Familiarity with government product development lifecycles, external-facing content workflows, release coordination, or product governance processes.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity topics, government cybersecurity priorities, strategic products, operational products, advisories, guidance, reports, and public-facing content.
• Experience supporting governance bodies, councils, steering committees, editorial boards, task forces, or cross-division coordination groups.
• Experience developing annual strategic priorities, product roadmaps, implementation plans, performance trackers, and governance reporting.
• Experience using ServiceNow or similar workflow management, dashboard, ticketing, or product tracking systems.
• Experience maintaining dashboards, action trackers, decision logs, risk registers, and status reporting tools.
• Experience coordinating across external communications, internal communications, customer engagement, web, social media, and stakeholder outreach teams.
• Experience identifying strategic communications opportunities for product releases and integrated campaigns.
• Strong project management, risk management, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to provide strategic counsel while also managing detailed operational tracking and follow-through.
• Ability to remain calm, flexible, and solutions-oriented under time pressure and competing priorities.

Location

Hybrid / Client-site (Arlington, VA)

Federal Contracts

This position involves working on federal contracts that require all workers on the contract to be U.S. Citizens. Additionally, some contracts may require the ability to obtain a security clearance.

Salary Range

$95K-$125K

LGI carefully considers various factors when determining salary, including but not limited to education and training, professional experience, knowledge, skills and competencies, licensure and certifications, contract-specific affordability, and organizational requirements. New employees are not usually hired at the top of the estimated salary range and salary decisions depend on the circumstances and factors for each case. Salary is only one aspect of LGI’s generous total compensation package.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Lafayette Group provides equal employment opportunities to all persons and prohibits employment decisions based on race, religion, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, or sexual orientation. Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled and veterans.