Communications Specialist -- Remote

About the position

Apply your expertise to advance the mission and optimize our business strategy as a Communications Specialist at GDIT. Here, you'll support solving some of our clients' biggest challenges and help us grow the business. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. GDIT's Strategy and Performance Group (SPG) is looking for a versatile Communications Specialist associate professional to support an array of communications and outreach activities for multiple functional areas of a federal government organization. The successful candidate will work on a team of highly skilled professionals to accomplish a diversity of communications messaging and artifacts and welcome the chance to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced, distributed work environment.

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• Develop and execute 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 communications, journalism, or related discipline
• 5+ years of related experience
• Ability to obtain a Level 5 public trust clearance with background investigation
• Editorial comms abilities (strong writing and editing skills, and publishing enterprise experience)
• Strong attention-to-detail mindset
• Ability to work independently, exhibiting accountability and ownership for assignments and work products
• Ability to complete work products to a high standard of quality
• Demonstrates initiative and eagerness to volunteer for assignments
• Displays natural inclination to readily engage in brainstorming and troubleshooting exchanges
• Natural team-oriented mindset, including willingness to readily and enthusiastically assist colleagues when needed
• 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
• Comfortability working in a fast-paced work environment with rapidly shifting priorities
• Prior security clearance and government experience preferred

Nice-to-haves

• Prior security clearance and government experience preferred

Benefits

• Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays
• Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees
• Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance