Senior Consultant, Strategic Communications

Position Title: Senior Consultant, Strategic Communications

Position Type: Full-time (W-2)

Salary: Competitive

Company Description:

Technical Assent is passionate about services in government, business, and not-for-profit. We design exceptional service experiences, engineer them to be robust, and deliver real capability and business outcomes for our clients. You will be working on government programs that have strategic importance to our clients. Your team will work IN and ON the client’s core mission-helping them deliver their services day-to-day while simultaneously looking for opportunities to improve. Our work is Driven by Evidence, Grounded in Understanding, and Focused on Impact.

Our consultants combine the creative and pragmatic to deliver the results that matter most to our clients. We see beauty when art and science come together. We seek self-starters, people who are confident in tackling challenges independently and bringing this to high-performing teams. We continually seek feedback from our customers and employees, looking for opportunities to grow. As a small company, our employees have an essential voice in shaping our culture. You help grow our culture and, in turn, grow from the experience.

Job Description:

As a Senior Consultant supporting our Federal government client, you will work as part of an innovative team to research, prepare, and deliver high-quality solutions. You will be trusted to complete tasks independently, begin leading others in completing tasks, and contribute to the overall team effort to solve challenging problems for the benefit of our customers.

The successful candidate will have the ability to:

• Lead the Strategic Communications team and oversee the team’s goals, timeline, and actions to meet communications and external impact goals.
• Develop, implement, and oversee a strategic communications plan, including setting priorities and goals, measurable objectives, strategies, and tactics.
• Oversee issue area strategic communication leads and communications planning for critical dates and campaigns.
• Establish procedures, standards, priorities and work plans.
• Applies knowledge of industry best practices, business process transformation, or lean management methods
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with external stakeholders and all levels of staff, to provide information and consult across strategic communication needs.
• Establish and manage effective cross-team relationships with organization leadership, program leads, development, and others to identify communications goals, target audiences, and timely, strategic opportunities that advance collective priorities.
• Develop long-range objectives and strategic plans related to business process improvement and curriculum design.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business management, communications, public policy, or other related field
• 8+ years of relevant, professional experience
• 4+ years of relevant management experience in successfully leading a communications team within a complex organizational structure
• Curious and open-minded approach to work
• Thrive in a continuous Build-Measure-Learn cycle
• Engage with technology—with comfort and ease (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Teams, Monday, Slack, etc.)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of employee experience, customer experience, and/or service design
• Strong knowledge of values-based or asset framing and working with diverse audiences to advance solution-oriented messages.
• Experience consulting or working for the Federal government

Job Location and Travel Expectations:

• This position is remote. Some travel (25%) is anticipated.
• Some meetings will be conducted on-site with customers in Washington, D.C.

Additional Information:

Come as you are - Technical Assent is committed to a workplace free of discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

We offer a highly competitive benefits package to all full-time employees that includes:

• Unlimited PTO
• Healthcare coverage (medical, dental, vision)
• FSA and HSA
• Short and long-term disability
• 401(k) with employer contributions, training and wellness allowances, and commuter benefits.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with Technical Assent, please call or email [email protected].

For more information about our company, please visit our website at www.technicalassent.com.