Communications Specialist

Overview

GDIT’s Strategy and Performance Group (SPG) is looking for a versatile Communications Specialist associate professional to support an array of communications and outreach activities for multiple functional areas of a federal government organization. The successful candidate will work on a team of highly skilled professionals to accomplish a diversity of communications messaging and artifacts and welcome the chance to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced, distributed work environment.

What you get to do …

• Collaborate with technical staff to help translate requirements from complex concepts to technical language into content comprehendible by a general audience.
• Conceive and develop print and digital content for internal and external audiences.
• Prepare, edit, revise presentations, talking points, news articles and other documents.
• Prepare, edit, revise materials promoting and supporting external events that raise awareness for system users of technical enhancements to program capabilities.
• Execute quick-turn communications tasks or initiatives for senior leaders.
• Plan, write and edit content on deadline and to a high standard of quality.
• Plan, create and distribute outreach print and digital outreach materials to support outreach events.
• Manage and execute multiple assignments simultaneously.
• Develop and execute communications plans designed for specific initiatives.
• Adhere to standards and quality-assurance resources such as style guides and federal plain language requirements.
• Plan and facilitate meetings on various platforms (in-person, Webex, etc.) with cross-functional stakeholders.

What you need to have …

• EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: BA/BS or equivalent, 5+ years of experience
• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications or related discipline
• Ability to obtain a Level 5 public trust clearance with background investigation.
• Editorial comms abilities (strong writing and editing skills, and publishing enterprise experience)
• Strong attention-to-detail mindset
• Ability to work independently, exhibiting accountability and ownership for assignments and work products.
• Ability to complete work products to a high standard of quality.
• Demonstrates initiative and eagerness to volunteer for assignments.
• Displays natural inclination to readily engage in brainstorming and troubleshooting exchanges.
• Natural team-oriented mindset, including willingness to readily and enthusiastically assist colleagues when needed.
• Experience working in government space.
• Excellent writing, editing and content development abilities.
• Extensive experience writing and editing on deadline for publication.
• Experience conceiving and developing content for print and digital platforms.
• Competency in use of standard office tools (e.g., MS Office suite, SharePoint, etc.)
• Familiarity and experience adhering to common content standards and quality-assurance resources such as style guides and federal plain language requirements.
• Comfortability working on a distributed team while working remotely.
• Comfortability working in a fast-paced work environment with rapidly shifting priorities.