Strategic Communications & Knowledge Architect

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

Job summary

LMI Consulting, LLC in Tysons, VA, is seeking a Communications Specialist to lead strategic communications, knowledge management, executive content, and Section 508 coordination for VA modernization initiatives. The role emphasizes reuse, publication quality, and audience-fit in a large federal environment.

This hybrid position requires turning complex technical and clinical material into concise, accessible materials while maintaining versioning, ownership, and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a communications-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 audiences.
• Practical knowledge of Section 508/WCAG and publication workflows.

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

Editing & synthesis

Knowledge management

Stakeholder engagement

Plain-language writing

Audience analysis

Section 508 accessibility knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in communications, journalism, knowledge management, technical writing, public relations, information science, or related field

Tools

SharePoint

Microsoft 365

Accessibility remediation tools

Job description

LMI Consulting, LLC in Tysons, VA, is seeking a Communications Specialist to lead strategic communications, knowledge management, executive content, and Section 508 coordination for VA modernization initiatives. The role emphasizes reuse, publication quality, and audience-fit in a large federal environment.

This hybrid position requires turning complex technical and clinical material into concise, accessible materials while maintaining versioning, ownership, and cross-team collaboration.