Communication Specialist with Security Clearance - Lorton, VA, United States - Noblis

Description

Responsibilities At Noblis and Noblis ESI, we have excellent teams of smart, collaborative, ethical and proactive experts
We are actively seeking candidates to join our team of talented professionals who possess the experience, vision, commitment, and integrity to successfully support the strategic goals of the CTR program

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop written products for the Director and other directorate leaders
• Collaborate with departments to edit written material to ensure a uniform writing standard for all directorate products and in accordance with the organization's Correspondence Guidebook
• Produce executive level, well written products, including but are not limited to, keynote speeches, ribbon cutting speeches, talking points for senior level meetings, letters of condolence or appreciation, blogs and larger documents such as the directorate's Executive Summary Report to Congress.
• Ensure an internal control over all messaging on behalf of the Director to include assisting with TDY trip books, pre-drafted talking points, and communications which the Director signs
• Review, file, and distribute Weekly Activity Reports to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Policy.
• Perform as primary Notetaker for meetings at various organizational levels, tailoring the content discussed into a product that is meaningful to the audience (e.g., Senior Executive Services level staff, workforce, etc.)
• Serve as support in the role of Staff Action Control Officer by drafting clear and concise tasker language instructions; review and finalize products before submission to senior leaders ensuring product meets the intent, is focused at the appropriate level for the receiving audience and meets all product standards (grammar, spelling, etc.)
• Support / lead as needed, briefing development for team presentations to congressional committee members

Support the directorate's knowledge management activities by ensuring key products are filed in a manner that supports logical and easy retrieval by senior leaders Required Qualifications Required Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree in journalism, English, literature, communications, political science, or a similar discipline

A master's degree is preferable.

• 3-5 years of experience writing at the senior executive level; excellent research and analytical skills
• Former experience / strong knowledge and understanding of congressional processes
• Skilled at crafting a compelling message that effectively communicates the speaker's ideas, values, and objectives to the audience

Strong technical writer:
highly proficient at notetaking and editing content ensure clarity, factual accuracy and audience's level of need to know

• Understanding of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Directorate, its relevant interagency stakeholders, and position within the larger Department of Defense
• Occational travel required

Security Clearance:
Secret Desired Qualifications

• Confidence and ability to form trusted relationship with senior executives through dialogue and professional disposition
• Ability to assume all responsibilities of a directorate Staff Action Control Officer
• Familiarity with the DoD tasking system, ETMS2
• Strong skills in SharePoint and MS Teams platform
• Positive, forward leaning individual interested in engaging across teams to build a stronger organization Overview Noblis and our wholly owned subsidiaries, Noblis ESI , and Noblis MSD tackle the nation's toughest problems and apply advanced solutions to our clients' most critical missions

We bring the best of scientific thought, management, and engineering expertise together in an environment of independence and objectivity to deliver enduring impact on federal missions
Noblis works with a wide range of government clients in the defense, intelligence and federal civil sectors
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Our people are our greatest asset
They are exceptionally skilled, knowledgeable, team-oriented, and mission-driven individuals who want to do work that matters and benefits the public
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Noblis maintains a drug-free workplace
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Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, and work-life programs
Our award programs acknowledge employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our service standards
Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in our benefit programs
Other offerings may be provided for employees not within this category
We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Benefits page on our Careers site
Salary at Noblis is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the combination of education, certifications, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, internal and external equity, location, and clearance level, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements and applicable employment laws
The projected compensation range for this position is provided within the posting and are based on full time status
Part time staff receive a prorated salary based on regularly scheduled hours
The estimated minimum and maximum displayed represents the broadest range for this position (inclusive of high geographic and high clearance requirements), and is just one component of Noblis' total compensation package for employees
Posted Salary Range USD $61, USD $107,800.00 /Yr
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