Responsibilities

• Technical Execution: Lead the implementation of communication strategies across projects by evaluating feasibility, managing deviations from plans, and communicating key decisions, risks, and mitigation strategies to stakeholders.
• Communication Strategy & Leadership: Shape enterprise communication strategies across projects, ensuring clarity, consistency, and alignment with organizational and client branding. Deliver high‑impact presentations to clients and senior leadership, translating complex information into actionable insights.
• Cybersecurity Awareness Campaigns: Lead cybersecurity awareness campaigns, overseeing strategic communications planning, outreach, and messaging to increase public awareness, engagement, and action related to cybersecurity initiatives and risks.
• Schedule & Timeline Management: Develop and manage integrated project schedules across communications initiatives. Allocate resources effectively to meet contractual milestones and ensure timely completion of all deliverables and required administrative activities.
• Quality Management & Continuous Improvement: Identify non‑conforming communication outputs, assess impact and significance, and implement corrective actions. Promote a culture of quality and continuous improvement through process refinement and staff engagement.
• Documentation & Knowledge Management: Oversee documentation strategies across projects, ensuring all communications deliverables are well‑organized, compliant with contractual standards, and tailored to stakeholder needs.
• Business & Client Relations: Lead client relationships by anticipating needs, aligning communications solutions with client objectives, and supporting business development through proposal input, strategic framing, and solution positioning.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (BS/BA) in English, Communications, Marketing, Business, or a related field
• Minimum of nine (9) years of relevant professional experience in communications, marketing, public relations, or related disciplines; additional relevant education may substitute for experience
• At least two years of experience supervising staff or leading teams
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DHS Fitness Determination
• Demonstrated experience planning and executing comprehensive communications strategies for IT initiatives across multiple projects or campaigns
• Proven experience coordinating and placing media advertising across offline and online channels, including digital, print, broadcast, or paid media platforms
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing teams, assigning workloads, setting priorities, and overseeing performance
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience delivering presentations to executive leadership or clients
• Experience analyzing campaign performance data and translating insights into actionable recommendations
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office productivity software and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams and SharePoint

Preferred

• Experience leading cybersecurity awareness or public education campaigns
• Background supporting federal agencies or highly regulated environments, particularly DHS or national‑security‑focused organizations
• Advanced project and resource management skills across large, multi‑workstream communications initiatives
• Intermediate knowledge of AI tools, including their limitations and risks, and how they can be applied to support project management tasks

Benefits

• Ripple Effect rewards our employees for their contributions to our mission in many ways, from competitive pay and exceptional benefits to a range of work/life programs based on your employment classification and personalized preferences.