Hybrid Communications & Knowledge Management Lead

LMI Government Consulting; Tysons (VA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI Government Consulting, Tysons, VA, is seeking a Communications Specialist to lead strategic communications, knowledge management, executive and stakeholder content, and reusable knowledge assets for VA modernization initiatives. This hybrid role requires roughly 25% onsite presence at the Tysons headquarters or Washington, DC.

The candidate will edit complex technical content, ensure accessible materials, and maintain publication governance across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in communications, journalism, knowledge management, technical writing/editing, executive communications, or a related field.
• 7+ years in federal communications, knowledge management, technical writing/editing, executive communications, or related work.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex mission and technical information for executive and stakeholder audiences.
• Practical knowledge of Section 508/WCAG, content governance, publication workflows, and knowledge repositories.
• Recommended certification: DHS Trusted Tester, Certified Knowledge Manager (CKM), or comparable accessibility/knowledge-management credential.
• Ability to satisfy VA personnel vetting and applicable security, privacy, records, and data-handling requirements.
• Demonstrated portfolio of executive communications, technical editing, knowledge products, or stakeholder materials developed for complex federal, technology, health, or mission programs.
• Experience establishing information architecture, taxonomy, metadata, publication governance, content ownership, and lifecycle management in SharePoint or a comparable enterprise repository.
• Hands-on understanding of accessible document and presentation practices, including headings, reading order, alternative text, tables, color/contrast, links, and remediation workflows.
• Exceptional command of plain-language writing, editing, synthesis, story structure, and information hierarchy, with the judgment to reduce jargon without losing technical or mission accuracy.
• Experience using accessibility checkers, remediation techniques, document templates, and review workflows to produce compliant Word, PowerPoint, PDF, web, or other electronic content.

Responsibilities

• Develop stakeholder communications plans, executive messaging, and concise program narratives aligned to VA priorities.
• Govern reusable guides, templates, evidence briefs, lessons learned, training materials, and knowledge repositories.
• Establish publication, metadata, version-control, ownership, archival, and content-lifecycle practices.
• Coordinate Section 508 accessibility quality for deliverables, dashboards, presentations, guides, and electronic content.
• Edit and package technical, clinical, data, and program content for clarity, consistency, and audience fit.
• Support executive briefings, recurring reporting, office hours, communities of practice, and stakeholder outreach.
• Partner with HCD/UX, QA, developers, and program teams to improve usability and accessibility of user-facing content.
• Capture reusable lessons so future teams can find, adapt, and apply prior work quickly.
• Develop audience segmentation, communication objectives, editorial calendars, channel strategies, and message frameworks that support major program milestones and stakeholder decisions.
• Create content standards for executive summaries, briefs, guides, templates, presentations, reports, and reusable knowledge products, including review and approval workflows.
• Design knowledge taxonomy, metadata, navigation, ownership, archival, and search practices that improve findability and reduce recreation of existing materials.
• Coordinate accessibility checks and remediation for common electronic formats, working with authors and product teams to address Section 508 issues before final publication.
• Create feedback loops with stakeholders and delivery teams to identify recurring questions, content gaps, outdated guidance, and opportunities to improve message clarity or knowledge reuse.
• Prepare senior leaders and subject-matter experts for briefings by shaping narratives, anticipating audience questions, simplifying supporting visuals, and ensuring key messages remain factually grounded.

Skills

Executive communications

Knowledge management

Technical editing

Audience analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in communications or related field

Tools

SharePoint

Microsoft 365

Job description

LMI Government Consulting, Tysons, VA, is seeking a Communications Specialist to lead strategic communications, knowledge management, executive and stakeholder content, and reusable knowledge assets for VA modernization initiatives. This hybrid role requires roughly 25% onsite presence at the Tysons headquarters or Washington, DC.

The candidate will edit complex technical content, ensure accessible materials, and maintain publication governance across the enterprise.