Communications Specialist – Midlevel
General Dynamics Information Technology
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $72,509 - $89,700 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Collaborate with technical staff to help translate requirements from complex concepts to technical language into content comprehendible by a general audience
- Conceive and develop print and digital content for internal and external audiences
- Prepare, edit, revise presentations, talking points, news articles and other documents
- Prepare, edit, revise materials promoting and supporting external events that raise awareness for system users of technical enhancements to program capabilities
- Execute quick-turn communications tasks or initiatives for senior leaders
- Assist with managing comms inbox taskings and responding to requests on short deadlines
- Plan, write and edit content on deadline and to a high standard of quality
- Plan, create and distribute outreach print and digital outreach materials to support outreach events
- Manage and execute multiple assignments simultaneously
- Support development and execution of communications plans designed for specific initiatives
- Adhere to standards and quality-assurance resources such as style guides and federal plain language requirements
- Plan and facilitate meetings on various platforms (in-person, Webex, etc.) with cross-functional stakeholders
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications or related discipline
- At least five years of experience in a communications and editorial enterprise
- Ability to obtain a Level 5 public trust clearance with background investigation
- US citizenship required
- Editorial comms abilities (strong writing and editing skills, and editorial enterprise experience)
- Experience working in government space
- Excellent writing, editing and content development abilities
- Extensive experience writing and editing on deadline for publication
- Experience conceiving and developing content for print and digital platforms
- Competency in use of standard office tools (e.g., MS Office suite, SharePoint, etc.)
- Familiarity and experience adhering to common content standards and quality-assurance resources such as style guides and federal plain language requirements
- Comfortability working on a distributed team while working remotely
- Experience and comfortability working in a fast-paced work environment with rapidly shifting priorities
Benefits
- Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- Vision plan
- 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- A variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
- 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year
- The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees
- Other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
writingeditingcontent developmentcommunications planningcontent creationdeadline managementquality assurancefederal plain languageprint content developmentdigital content development
Soft skills
collaborationtime managementorganizational skillscommunicationadaptabilityattention to detailproblem-solvingcreativityteamworkleadership
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in journalismBachelor’s degree in communicationsLevel 5 public trust clearance