Lead Content Strategist, Science & Technology

MITRE; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 121,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

MITRE, a nonprofit engineering and research organization, seeks a lead content strategist who can translate complex scientific and technical subject matter for broad audiences across websites, social media, and multimedia channels.

You will interview subject matter experts, shape compelling narratives, apply AI tools to accelerate product development, and define metrics to measure impact, engagement, and risk reduction, while ensuring on-site collaboration at MITRE's McLean location.

Qualifications

• Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills with the ability to produce publication-ready content under tight timelines.
• Experience translating technical information into clear, compelling communications for non-technical audiences.
• Strong AI acumen and the ability to apply AI tools to accelerate product development and improve workflows.
• Experience managing multiple priorities and stakeholders in a dynamic environment.
• Working knowledge of employee communications technology, content management, digital signage, intranets, email platforms, collaboration tools, and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Produce science or technical content for digital platforms, including websites, social media, and multimedia channels.
• Translate complex research findings into compelling, accurate content across formats and reading levels.
• Interview and draw out subject matter experts to capture narratives and describe discoveries and contributions.
• Apply AI tools and emerging technologies to accelerate product development and enhance digital communications.
• Define and track measures of communications effectiveness such as engagement, content reuse, and campaign progress.

Skills

Exceptional writing and editing

Translate complex technical content

AI acumen

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in communications, journalism, public relations, public affairs, science communication, engineering, technology policy, or related field

Tools

Content Management Systems

Analytics tools

AI tools

Job description

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future.

The Communications and External Affairs (CXA) organization helps MITRE communicate with clarity, consistency, and impact across the audiences that matter most to our mission. The organization leads mission and enterprise communications, external affairs, executive communications, public affairs, stakeholder engagement, events, digital channels, and reputation management in support of MITRE’s public-interest mission.

CXA embeds domain-fluent communicators with MITRE’s mission sectors to shape the narratives, campaigns, content, and stakeholder engagement that advance MITRE’s impact.

We’re seeking a lead content strategist who can cut through the acronyms and jargon to translate complex scientific and technical subject matter for target audiences across multiple channels. Researching a web article, you’ll recognize the video potential it holds, the expert profile to complement it, the animation or infographic it should have been all along.

MITRE’s work makes a difference to the federal agencies we support, the populations they serve, and the industries that rely on our expertise.

The successful candidate will combine excellent strategic thinking and planning, exceptional writing and editorial skills, digital platform fluency, and a practical bias for action.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Produce science or technical content for digital platforms, including websites, social media, and multimedia channels.
• Translate complex research findings into compelling, accurate, audience-appropriate content across multiple formats and reading levels.
• Interview and draw out subject matter experts to capture their individual narratives and describe their discoveries and contributions to the enterprise and mission impact.
• Apply AI tools and emerging technologies to accelerate product development, improve workflows, and enhance the impact of our digital communications.
• Define and track practical measures of communications effectiveness, such as message pull-through, stakeholder engagement, executive readiness, content reuse, audience understanding, campaign progress, and risk reduction.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in communications, journalism, public relations, public affairs, science communication, engineering, technology policy, or a related field.
• Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills, with the ability to produce publication-ready content under tight timelines.
• Experience translating technical, scientific, engineering, policy, or mission-oriented information into clear and compelling communications for non-technical audiences.
• Strong AI acumen and the ability to apply AI tools and emerging technologies to accelerate product development, improve workflows, and enhance the impact of communications.
• Experience managing multiple priorities, stakeholders, and deliverables in a dynamic environment.
• Working knowledge of employee communications technology, content management, digital signage, intranets, email platforms, collaboration tools, and analytics.
• This position requires a minimum of 3 days a week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in or with federal agencies, research institutions, advanced technology organizations, national labs, academia, or other mission-driven technical environments.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including active listening, emotional intelligence, collaboration, and the ability to build trust across technical and non-technical teams.
• Domain knowledge or communications experience in applied science and research, engineering, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, cyber, space, biotechnology, microelectronics, advanced manufacturing, systems engineering, or other emerging technology areas.
• Experience supporting technical leaders, scientists, engineers, or senior experts in communicating complex work to government, industry, academic, media, employee, or general audiences.
• Experience measuring communications outcomes, not just activity or output.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

None

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$121,200 - $151,500 - $181,800 Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.

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