Senior Strategic Communications Consultant

We are seeking a Senior Strategic Communications Consultant to lead stakeholder engagement and communications efforts for client-facing projects in the technical sector. This role will serve as a central communications resource for high-visibility programs and business priorities, including support to a large program management office, stakeholder communications, and project-related messaging.

Responsibilities

• Lead communications for client-facing, billable strategic programs and initiatives, aligning cross-functional teams while coordinating with internal teams that support project execution and delivery.
• Develop and deliver clear, accurate, and audience-specific communications for key stakeholders, including updates, key messages, presentations, briefing materials, and talking points.
• Support program and project communication needs, including communication cadences, leadership updates, governance materials, and meeting support.
• Partner with technical leaders, project managers, and business stakeholders to ensure messaging is aligned, timely, and consistent.
• Identify communication risks or gaps and recommend practical approaches to improve clarity, engagement, and alignment to ensure client needs are met. Participate in client and project team meetings.
• Assist with research and data analysis, to include but not limited to assisting with conducting customer or stakeholder analyses.
• Track and accurately report hours spent on projects.
• Work with individuals at all levels, provide input to reports and other deliverables, execute multiple assignments, meet agreed deadlines, and adjust to changing client demands.
• Perform quality assurance on project deliverables.
• Demonstrate a firm understanding of business and implement opportunities for enhancing effectiveness and efficiencies on assigned projects and amongst team members.
• Communicate client needs to project managers.

Requirements

• Must have a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, English, Marketing, Business, Public Affairs, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience).
• 6+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Professional certification preferred.
• US Citizenship required for roles supporting government contracts.

Skills

• Ability to gain, retain, illustrate comprehension of learned communications knowledge, and transfer knowledge to other members of the team.
• Ability to mentor/coach entry-level consultants and hone technical skills in others.
• Ability to actively listen to the needs of clients by receiving shared information, determining context, generating probing questions, retaining information, collaborating with sales teams, and responding with solutions.
• Openly accept change as part of business evolution to meet client needs, provide recommendations to enhance business, and drive change amongst colleagues and on assigned projects.
• Possess a firm understanding of key performance indicators and their significance to the business, and take action to drive results.
• Ability to utilize established rapport and role as a subject matter expert with existing clients to facilitate development of new business through identifying and generating new opportunities.
• Ability to coach others on development of customer intimacy and new opportunities.
• Must take responsibility for actions, behaviors, decisions, and results of the team they lead.
• Ability to utilize root cause analysis to improve performance.
• Must understand departmental goals and hold self and team members accountable for keeping commitments and high standards.
• Must acknowledge and learn from mistakes.
• Must be dependable and consistent.
• Must actively participate in daily activities.
• Ability to demonstrate independent, objective, open-minded thinking with strong attention to detail and sound judgment.
• Proficient level of time management skills.
• Working knowledge of the ABS Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental Management System.

Pay

$110k–$115k