Responsibilities

• Develops, evaluates, and implements enterprise strategic communications and marketing strategies aligned with corporate objectives, growth priorities, and government contracting business goals.
• Leads the development and management of the company’s brand, messaging architecture, corporate identity, and market positioning across all external and internal communications.
• Serves as a strategic communications advisor and thought partner to executive leadership, providing counsel on corporate messaging, reputation management, stakeholder communications, employee communications, and emerging issues.
• Partners with Business Development, Capture, and Proposal teams to develop compelling messaging, differentiators, value propositions, win themes, executive narratives, capability statements, presentations, and other communications materials supporting federal opportunities.
• Supports strategic capture and proposal efforts by translating complex technical, operational, and mission-focused information into clear, persuasive, audience-appropriate communications.
• Develops communications and marketing strategies that strengthen the company's visibility and credibility within priority federal agencies, contract vehicles, mission areas, and government contracting markets.
• Collaborates with Growth and Business Development leadership to support account-based marketing, market positioning, industry engagement, and targeted communications campaigns associated with strategic federal customers and opportunities.
• Maintains familiarity with the federal acquisition environment, government customer priorities, procurement trends, relevant contract vehicles, and competitive developments affecting the organization’s target markets.
• Builds and protects the company's corporate reputation by proactively identifying opportunities to communicate organizational capabilities, contract successes, customer outcomes, employee expertise, and thought leadership.
• Identifies emerging reputational or communications risks and develops appropriate communications strategies, executive messaging, talking points, and response plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, Journalism, Business, English, Government/Public Affairs, or a related field.
• Minimum of 7–10 years of progressively responsible experience in strategic communications, marketing, public relations, corporate communications, or related disciplines.
• Minimum of 3–5 years of leadership or management responsibility.
• Experience within the federal government contracting, defense, aerospace, technology, professional services, consulting, or other government-facing environment strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with Business Development, Capture, Proposal, or Growth organizations is preferred.
• Experience developing communications for complex technical, professional services, or mission-oriented organizations.
• Demonstrated experience managing external agencies, consultants, designers, writers, digital providers, or other vendors.
• Experience developing executive-level communications and advising senior organizational leaders.
• Experience managing communications budgets, personnel, projects, and competing organizational priorities.

Preferred

• Master’s degree in Communications, Marketing, Business Administration, Public Affairs, or a related discipline. Candidates with knowledge or experience in one or more of the following areas are strongly preferred:
• Federal business development and capture
• Federal proposal development
• Government acquisition and procurement processes
• Government-wide acquisition contracts and IDIQ vehicles
• Agency-specific contract vehicles
• Teaming and subcontractor relationships
• Government-industry conferences and industry days
• Federal customer engagement
• Past-performance and capability positioning

Benefits

• Our suite of benefits includes Health, Dental, Vision, 401k w/ match, Gym Membership discounts, Volunteer Paid Time Off, and a generous PTO package.