Communications Manager

Communications Manager

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.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The Communications Manager responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Leverage strategic marketing and communications experience to plan, lead, and manager progressively larger and more complex marcomms tasks and programs

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

Ass the firm's strategies and capabilities and apply industry best practices and innovative solutions to further optimize growth

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 Public Trust

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

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 Veterans Health Administration (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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