Communications and Public Outreach Specialist - TS/SCI CI Poly

Description

Communications and Public Outreach Specialist - TS/SCI CI Poly

The Communications and Public Outreach Specialist serves as a key driver in consolidating and communicating cohesive messaging to various IC community stakeholders. This role is essential in advancing the agency mission by promoting its research efforts, technology transitions, and overall brand presence. The successful candidate will navigate both publicly facing (unclassified) and Intelligence Community (classified) audiences, ensuring all communications are compliant with agency requirements.

Location :

Bethesda, MD

Clearance:

TS/SCI CI Polygraph

Responsibilities:

Strategic Communications & Outreach Campaigns

• Campaign Management: Develop, execute, and evaluate comprehensive outreach and engagement plans that align with the agency's strategic goals, technology transition missions, and requirements collection.
• Media Relations: Maintain and update (bi-monthly) the core news reporters list. Coordinate all pre-publication and security reviews for media content.

Content Development & Multimedia Production

• Digital Content Management: Support and manage unclassified and classified content for IC Agency website applications, social media platforms, and Wikipedia/Intelink pages, ensuring information is timely and accurate.
• Writing & Editing: Draft professional news articles (e.g., showcase, transition), monthly newsletters, speeches, talking points, and update technical documents ensuring accuracy and public affairs compliance.
• Visual & Graphic Design: Generate comprehensive visual media, including slick sheets, presentation graphics, posters, logo designs, and graphic diagrams.
• Video Production: Manage pre- and post-production for final videos and/or animations of IC Agency-sponsored events and programs.

Academic Partnerships

• Stakeholder Coordination: Coordinate with program teams and acquisition staff to ensure Intellectual Property (IP) rights are accurately captured and communicated. Generate materials conveying partnership processes to stakeholders.
• Publication Cataloging: Document, log, and maintain a comprehensive catalog of peer-reviewed public publications resulting from Agency-funded research.

Requirement:

• Education & Experience: Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Marketing, or Media Studies plus five (5) years of combined experience in communications, public affairs, graphics design, or web content management; OR a High School Diploma plus ten (10) years of the aforementioned combined experience.
• Strategic Expertise: Demonstrated experience drafting, executing, and evaluating strategic communications plans against an organization's specific goals, objectives, and priorities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Industry Experience: Prior communications and public outreach experience within the Intelligence Community (IC).

About Xcelerate Solutions:

Founded in 2009 and headquartered in McLean, VA, Xcelerate Solutions (www.xceleratesolutions.com) is one of America's fastest-growing companies. Xcelerate's culture is defined by our diversified workforce of dynamic and versatile professionals, supported with growth and development opportunities that contribute to individual and company growth. This strong commitment to our employees has been recognized by our inclusion on the Washington Business Journal's "50 Best Places to Work" list as well as being a "Great Place to Work" certified company with a 4.6 star, and a 99% CEO approval Glassdoor rating. Come find out why Xcelerate Solutions is one of the DC Metro top employers!

Xcelerate Solutions is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, age, equal pay, disability, veteran status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or expression of another protected characteristic. As part of this commitment to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals, Xcelerate provides reasonable accommodations if needed because of an applicant's or an employee's disability.

Pay Transparency Notice: Xcelerate Solutions will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.