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 and Inclusion) 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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