LINK

Senior Strategist – Deputy Program Manager

LINK

full-time

Posted on:

Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

Visit company website

Explore more

✨ AI Apply
Apply

Salary

💰 $112,000 - $151,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Partner directly with clients to understand challenges, capture requirements, and define missions, visions, goals, and KPIs/OKRs.
  • Collaborate with clients through well-designed meetings and workshops to co-create solutions and gather critical inputs.
  • Perform high-quality primary and secondary research to inform strategic direction.
  • Apply human-centered design and design-thinking principles to complex problem sets.
  • Work iteratively by proactively gathering feedback from clients and internal partners to refine solutions.
  • Identify opportunities to create tangible business value through current-state assessments and high-level requirement definition.
  • Develop and maintain strong client relationships, including managing external stakeholders and converting new requests into business opportunities.
  • Oversee multiple client engagements, ensuring alignment, clarity, and strategic impact across projects.
  • Elevate content quality and thought leadership in partnership with the Strategy Competency Manager, ensuring strong standards for deliverables.
  • Translate ideas into compelling strategic narratives, campaigns, and solutions.
  • Identify content structures, hierarchies, and visual concepts for storytelling products, including content maps and wireframes.
  • Collaborate with design teams to develop infographics, charts, diagrams, presentations, and other visual products that convey complex information clearly.
  • Manage multiple internal project teams, organizing assignments and tracking progress, deadlines, and deliverables from both operational and financial perspectives.
  • Act as a thought partner to the PM in managing day-to-day program operations and evolving client strategy.
  • Track and manage delivery timelines, milestones, budgets, and team capacity across multi-workstream government contracts.
  • Provide input to internal reporting on project health, budget usage, risks, and staffing capacity for informed PM decision-making.
  • Support tracking of period of performance (POP) deadlines, deliverable quality, and communications related to project-specific changes.
  • Coordinate internal resource allocation in alignment with PM priorities and contract scope.
  • Maintain key internal documentation, including timecard reviews, deliverable tracking, and project updates.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Communication, English, Business, or a related field
  • 10+ years of experience in strategic communication, public affairs, program management, or strategy development
  • 4-6 years of program or project coordination experience including familiarity with Agile methodologies and project delivery best practices.
  • Experience in government contracting or client services preferred
  • Ability to build and maintain robust client relationships and foster positive interpersonal connections
  • Interest in visual storytelling, including data visualization and conceptualizing abstract ideas
  • Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, maintaining a strong focus on accuracy and attention to detail
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate in a clear, approachable, and knowledgeable manner
  • Active Clearance: Secret required, Top Secret preferred
  • Experience with defense communications or creative work for government clients valuable
  • Detail-oriented with ability to thrive in dynamic environments
Benefits
  • $100 monthly internet/cell phone stipend
  • LINK sponsored healthcare benefits including medical, dental, vision
  • Company-paid Short Term Disability Insurance
  • 401K with employer contribution of up to 4%
  • 11 Federal Holidays per year
  • 15 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year
  • Paid Holiday Time Off (Christmas Eve through the New Year)
  • Annual bonus plan participation
  • Annual profit sharing participation
  • $2,000 Learning and Development program reimbursement
  • Technology package that includes a LINK-owned MacBook Pro, monitor, mouse and keyboard
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
strategic communicationprogram managementproject coordinationAgile methodologiesdata visualizationhuman-centered designdesign-thinking principlescontent mappingwireframingbudget management
Soft Skills
client relationship managementinterpersonal skillsorganizational skillsattention to detailwritten communicationverbal communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingfeedback gatheringthought leadership
Certifications
Bachelor’s degreeActive Clearance: SecretTop Secret Clearance (preferred)