Communications Manager - Washington, United States - Prometheus Federal Services

Description

Prometheus Federal Services (PFS),

a trusted partner to federal health and social services agencies

,

is seeking a Communications Manager to lead communications workstreams and/or marketing projects for our VA client.

The ideal candidate will have expertise and experience working with or for federal agencies as a management consultant to implement high visibility and/or enterprise-level marketing and communications projects, programs, and initiatives.

Scope

The Communications Manager works closely with and supports Federal agency clients in the planning and implementation of major marcomms initiatives.

Description

Leverage strategic marketing and communications experience to plan, lead, and manage progressively larger and more complex marcomms tasks and programs within federal agencies.

Apply expertise in strategic marketing and communications to activities around shaping, capturing, and delivering increasingly complex programs.

Assess the firm's strategies and capabilities and apply industry best practices and innovative solutions to further optimize growth into this segment of the market.

Provide leadership in building a team of strategic marketing and communications professionals to support this growing capability.

Provide thought leadership to create intellectual capital, support business development initiatives, and participate in marketing activities, including whitepapers, proposals, and capability briefings.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
The Communications Manager responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Lead, manage, and motivate client delivery teams
Manage large federal consulting contracts
Lead client tasks and projects including branding, marketing, communications, events, social media, awards, public relations, media relations, product development (e.g., annual report, project profiles, fact sheets), website, video, internal communications, and campaigns
Develop internal and external integrated marketing and communications plans, manage their tactical implementation, and measure and report on the results of communications activities
Ensure quality service, deliverables, and results
Manage key stakeholders and develop engagement plans
Measure the success of communications strategies and tactics using analytics
Support the development of innovative approaches and ideas to deliver communications solutions to clients
Create intellectual capital, support business development initiatives, and participate in business development activities including whitepapers, proposals, and capability briefings
Lead proposals and respond to RFIs and RFPs
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, journalism, design, public affairs, or other related field required
7+ years of experience

in federal and/or private marketing and/or strategic communications management consulting
Expert-level knowledge in strategic marketing and communications, stakeholder engagement, and public relations best practices and core principles
Demonstrated experience planning, developing, and managing a complex marketing and communications plans for federal and/or private clients
Knowledge of local and national federal communications landscapes
Experience leveraging various communications channels to deliver client messaging to federal and/or public audiences
Demonstrated ability to anticipate problems and proactively address communications breakdowns
Experience developing talking points, writing speeches, and crafting blogs/social media posts for senior executive level clients
Excellent proficiency in copyediting, proofreading, and common publishing platforms as well as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, etc.
Ability to work independently and in large delivery teams, prioritize workload to meet demands, be well organized and proactive, and define courses of action to enable decision making
Proven capabilities in making deadlines, generating key deliverables, and program/project management
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, team environment with quick turnaround times while maintaining excellent quality control
Ability to align solutions with business needs, create innovative approaches to address client requirements, and build collaborative internal and external relationships
Ability to get up to speed quickly on complex issues, multi-task while maintaining high attention to detail, and be willing and able to roll up sleeves and get work of all types done
Comfortable responding to and managing inquiries/topics that are sometimes sensitive in nature with the highest professionalism
Outstanding written and verbal communications skills
Experience in major decision making and problem solving
Desire to work in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment
Strong proficiency with MS Word and Excel
Excellent deck-building/PowerPoint skills
Ability to work in the US without sponsorship indefinitely
Ability to obtain a US security clearance if needed
Ability to work on-site in the Washington, DC area up to five days per week
Preferred Qualifications
Master's degree from an accredited college or university marketing, communications, journalism, design, public affairs, or other related field
DEI (Diversity, Equity andInclusion) experience
Experience cultivating and developing relationships with media contacts and ability to use those contacts to execute strategic priorities
Graphic design expertise
Experience conducting digital and traditional ad buys
Experience leading proposal work and responding to RFIs
Experience mentoring, developing, and managing professional staff
Experience working with federal government entities

PMP
Experience supporting Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) or Veterans Health Administration (VHA)(VHA)

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.

This position may be subject to client or government vaccination and masking guidance, policy or requirements as may be changed from time to time.

Work location is flexible if approved by the company except that position may not be performed remotely from Colorado.

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