Manager, Strategic Communications, National Security

Responsibilities

• Serve as project manager for client teams, moving deliverables and tasks forward and communicating effectively with the entire team.
• Develop strategies for engaging media, think tanks, and other stakeholders and lead discrete workstreams.
• Draft and edit communications plans, media strategies, correspondence, client memos and briefing documents, media pitches, social media content, website content, and other collateral.
• Collaborate with colleagues to create pitch decks, presentation materials, briefings, and informative client deliverables.
• Research and synthesize complex business and policy issues, distilling information into memos that support thought leadership, stakeholder mapping, and media engagement.
• Manage multiple workstreams and tasks with competing deadlines and manage junior team members to complete projects and tasks with short turnaround times.
• Drive new business efforts through project management support.

Requirements

• 4-7 years of experience in the strategic communications field, either at a communications agency, in-house, trade association, in Congress, or on a political campaign (agency experience preferred).
• Passionate about communications, public affairs, and media relations, with exceptional project management skills and supreme attention to detail.
• Strong demonstrated interest in technology and national security policy areas.
• Excellent organizational skills to manage multiple workstreams and competing deadlines with a focus on detail and precision.
• Digital and social media savvy with an understanding of how to reach a target audience and drive engagement through compelling content.
• Excellent time management skills. Comfortable and adaptive when working in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
• Solid communication skills and ability to manage both up and down.
• Strong writing, editing, and research skills.
• Proficient in use of digital software and technology, including databases such as Cision and Meltwater, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Benefits

• annual discretionary bonus based on individual performance and that of the firm
• commissions
• robust medical, dental, and vision plans with employer HSA contributions
• generous retirement matching
• educational assistance
• professional development assistance
• unlimited time off
• other benefits