Strategic Communications Advisor

Chantilly, VA (On-site)

$121K/yr – $189K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 8 days ago

Job Summary

Own and drive strategic communications and stakeholder engagement initiatives for senior leaders, translating complex topics into clear narratives and coordinating across mission partners.

  • Align messages with mission objectives
  • Develop executive-ready communication products

Job Description

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.

Benefits

  • Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, and work-life programs.
  • Our award programs acknowledge employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our service standards.
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Noblis is a nonprofit science, technology, and strategy organization that brings the best of scientific thought, management, and engineering expertise in an environment of independence and objectivity. We work with a wide range of government and industry clients in the areas of national security, intelligence, transportation, healthcare, environmental sustainability, and citizen services.

Founded in 1996
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