Communications Specialist -- Remote

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Secret

Public Trust/Other Required:

Other

Job Family:

Communications

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Communication, Executive Communications, External Communication

Certifications:

None

Experience:

5 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Apply your expertise to advance the mission and optimize our business strategy as a Communications Specialist at GDIT. Here, you’ll support solving some of our clients’ biggest challenges and help us grow the business. At GDIT, people are our differentiator.

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.

Communications Specialist:

GDIT’s Strategy and Performance Group (SPG) is looking for a versatile outreach and stakeholder engagement professional to support an array of outreach and readiness activities for multiple functional areas of a federal government organization. The successful candidate will work on a team of top-notch professionals to support creation and implementation of plans to assist end users in navigating system upgrades, with activities including in-person and virtual informational briefings, support call sessions and other engagement with field office staff and the external user community. The candidate also will 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 ...

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, or related discipline
• 5+ years of related experience
• 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
• Prior security clearance and government experience preferred.
• Location: Remote (within the US), plus possible occasional travel for quarterly onsite at client site and outreach events
• US Citizenship required

*Quarterly travel to Ashburn, VA, may be required, along with possible occasional travel to industry conferences.

GDIT is your place ...

● Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home

● 401K with company match
● Comprehensive health and wellness packages
● Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
● Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
● Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
● Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

The likely salary range for this position is $63,750 - $86,250. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 30 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

We connect people with the most impactful client missions, creating an unparalleled work experience that allows them to see their impact every day. We create opportunities for our people to lead and learn simultaneously. From securing our nation’s most sensitive systems, to enabling digital transformation and cloud adoption, our people are the ones who make change real.

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