Strategic Communications Advisor

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of strategic communication and stakeholder-engagement plans aligned with mission objectives, leadership priorities, and key initiatives.
• Serve as a trusted communications advisor to the customer's senior leadership on messaging, audience considerations, communication risks, and engagement opportunities.
• Develop a thorough understanding of customer organizations, missions, priorities, concerns, and information needs, and incorporate that understanding into communication strategies and products.
• Translate complex technical, acquisition, operational, and mission information into accessible and compelling narratives for executive, technical, operational, and external audiences.
• Oversee the creation of a wide range of executive communication products, including briefings, talking points, and digital content, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and brand voice.
• Develop digital mission-storytelling content for immersive and collaborative presentation environments using platforms such as Alleo.
• Work with technical subject-matter experts to ensure that communication products accurately represent relevant systems, capabilities, processes, mission contributions, and operational value.
• Coordinate messaging across customer organizations and with Intelligence Community, Department of War, industry, and other mission partners.
• Plan and support leadership engagements, demonstrations, visits, outreach activities, and major communication initiatives.
• Establish measures of effectiveness, collect stakeholder feedback, and recommend improvements to communication and engagement strategies.

Requirements

• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.
• US Citizenship is required.
• Bachelor's degree and 12 years of experience OR Master's degree and 10 years of experience OR PhD and 8 years of experience OR Associate's degree and 14 years of experience OR HS diploma/GED and 16 years of experience.
• Demonstrated experience developing strategic communications for senior leaders in the Intelligence Community, Department of War, national security, aerospace, or a comparable mission environment.
• Exceptional writing, editing, briefing, presentation-development, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to understand complex technical and mission subjects and communicate them effectively to audiences with differing levels of expertise.
• Experience engaging diverse stakeholder groups, identifying their needs and concerns, and adapting communication strategies accordingly.
• Visual storytelling and content design with proven expertise in developing digital content and interactive narratives utilizing infinite canvas and collaboration tools (e.g., Miro, Mural, Figma, Alleo, Prezi).
• Executive-level presentation capability to architect multimodal briefing spaces and translate complex mission concepts into clear, strategic narratives for executive stakeholders.
• Travel up to 10% within US.

Preferred

• Demonstrated knowledge of NRO missions, systems, organizations, acquisition and operational processes, and stakeholder relationships.
• Broad awareness of the needs, priorities, and concerns of national security space customers and mission partners across the Intelligence Community and Department of War.
• Experience supporting intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities or related mission areas.
• Experience supporting executive communications, senior-level visits, capability demonstrations, or major stakeholder engagements.
• Familiarity with communication measurement, audience research, and stakeholder-feedback methods.
• Sound judgement and discretion when working with sensitive or classified information.
• Ability to manage multiple high-priority assignments in a fast-paced, mission-focused environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with senior leaders, technical experts, program offices, operational organizations, and communication professionals.