Strategic Communications/Social Media

Responsibilities

• Provide ongoing strategic digital counsel, working with internal teams to identify areas of opportunities to strengthen current initiatives.
• Development of formal communications plans, campaign strategies, schedules, and audience segmentation.
• Develop communications materials that clearly describe and promote the organization and its key initiatives including graphics, fact sheets, logos, and related products.
• Develop briefing materials, including PowerPoint presentations for senior leaders.
• Coordinate with subject-matter experts across the Office of the Secretary of War, military commands, and other stakeholders to obtain background information, supporting details, and imagery.
• Conduct research and using authoritative sources to support the development of accurate, timely, and well-informed communication products.
• Revise draft materials in response to leadership and stakeholder feedback while maintaining accuracy, consistency, and timeliness.
• Prepare communication products for public release and clearance review in accordance with applicable policies and procedures.
• Draft responses to media inquiries with clarity, accuracy, and appropriate coordination.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Communications, Computer Science, or a related field and at least four years of relevant experience, or Bachelor's degree and six years of experience.
• Excellent writing, editing, and verbal communication skills
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to adapt to evolving requirements and stakeholder feedback.
• Demonstrated organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines.
• Demonstrated graphic design experience creating clear, visually compelling digital content including infographics, and presentation materials using tools such as PowerPoint and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Familiarity with Google Analytics to monitor website traffic, assess audience engagement, and inform data-driven improvements to digital communications content and strategy.
• Experience designing and maintaining intuitive, visually engaging SharePoint sites that organize communications content clearly and support effective user navigation.
• Experience preparing executive-level products for senior military leadership and other high-level officials.
• Ability to work effectively with senior military leaders and executives in preparing internal and external communications products.
• Active Secret security clearance required, with the ability to obtain a Top-Secret Department of War security clearance.

Preferred

• Experience supporting Department of War test and evaluation, research and engineering, and/or defense acquisition efforts.
• Experience using the Armed Forces Public Information Management System (AFPIMS) and Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) to create, update, publish, and maintain web and visual-information content in accordance with organizational standards.
• Experience applying Section 508 accessibility requirements to create and maintain accessible, conformant digital content and websites
• Experience creating and editing engaging video content for digital platforms, including scripting, recording, editing, captioning, and post-production.

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• paid time off
• paid parental leave
• life and disability insurance
• flexible spending accounts
• commuter benefits
• tuition reimbursement