
Senior Strategic Communications Specialist
Bixal
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $100,000 - $110,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead digital content strategy to ensure ACF web and intranet content is user-centered, mission-aligned, and compliant with federal standards.
- Oversee content creation, editing, publishing, and maintenance within the enterprise Drupal CMS, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and consistency.
- Support Section 508 and WCAG compliance and adherence to the 21st Century IDEA across all digital communications.
- Optimize content performance through analytics, SEO strategy, metadata management, and structured content best practices.
- Collaborate within Agile teams, participating in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and cross-functional coordination with UX, development, and project management teams.
- Support user research and human-centered design efforts, incorporating usability findings, journey maps, and stakeholder insights into content improvements.
- Manage and prioritize content requests and tickets, ensuring timely delivery of updates and rapid-response communications when needed.
- Contribute to governance and workflow improvements, helping refine publishing standards, content lifecycle processes, and distributed authoring models.
- Develop training materials and provide guidance to federal stakeholders and content contributors on CMS usage, editorial standards, and best practices.
- Provide strategic communications counsel to ACF stakeholders, translating complex policy and programmatic information into accessible, actionable digital content.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, plus at least 7 years of related experience in communications, content strategy or a similar field
- Excellent stakeholder management skills – ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences
- Excellent organizational skills – ability to manage multiple content calendars
- Strong content strategy skills
- Demonstrated experience with digital content creation, preferably working in a Drupal CMS environment
- Experience with analyzing and distilling SEO data
- Creative-thinker and problem-solver interested in participating in brainstorming sessions and improving best practices
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance.
Benefits
- Flex hours
- 401K with matching incentive
- Parental Leave
- Medical/dental/vision benefits
- Flex Spending Account
- Company provided short-term disability and life insurance
- Commuter benefits
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 11 Paid holidays
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Hard Skills & Tools
content strategydigital content creationSEOanalyticsmetadata managementuser researchhuman-centered designAgile methodologyDrupal CMScontent lifecycle processes
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementorganizational skillscommunicationcreative thinkingproblem-solvingcollaborationprioritizationtraining and guidance
Certifications
Bachelor's degreePublic Trust security clearance