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Job Description:
Parsons is looking for a highly skilled Senior Strategic Planning and Visual Communications Specialist to join our team! In this high-impact role, you will design and deliver visually based group processes, strategic planning activities, and consulting services that spark innovation, strengthen collaboration and communication, and support high-performing teams. You will also help senior leaders and mission partners gain decision advantage by translating complex information into clear, accessible, and actionable visual products for corporate applications and services.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Plan and facilitate meetings using graphic facilitation techniques to improve alignment, consensus, decision-making, and content retention.
- Observe, listen, and synthesize complex information into visually compelling combinations of words and images that create a common, memorable, and actionable record.
- Design and facilitate innovation-focused workshops that apply human-centered practices, generate new ideas, and strengthen product and mission value.
- Develop visual materials that systematically illustrate systems, processes, strategies, and other complex concepts, including storyboards, roadmaps, OV-1s, and action sketches.
- Enable participatory decision-making sessions that build shared understanding, clarify priorities, and align stakeholders around key ideas.
- Ensure consistent themes, messages, and talking points for NGA and IA senior leadership engagements with other NGA elements, the IC, and the broader Global GEOINT Enterprise.
- Compile executive-level summary notes, decisions, action items, and follow-up materials for IA planning events, such as IA Vertical Cut and IA Leaders Offsite.
Required Clearance:
- Must be a U.S Citizen
- Must have an active TS/SCI clearance and be willing and able to obtain and maintain a CI Polygraph
What Required Skills You'll Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Political Science, International Relations, or a related field and 8+ years of related experience.
- Previous experience serving in an administrative, staff officer, strategic planning, or comparable role.
- Previous experience facilitating strategic planning sessions and translating broad objectives into clear, actionable plans.
- Previous experience creating visual concepts, sketches, storyboards, or video concepts to illustrate complex systems, processes, or strategies.
- Previous experience planning and facilitating meetings that increase product value and support decisions by senior executives, flag officers, or other VIPs.
- Previous experience creating and implementing strategic communications plans that maximize employee adoption and usage while minimizing resistance to change.
What Desired Skills You'll Bring:
- Experience applying human-centered design practices to create compelling visuals that communicate complex ideas and support decision-making.
- Experience identifying and developing real-time communications products and requirements for senior leaders, mission partners, and organizational stakeholders.
Security Clearance Requirement:
An active Top Secret SCI security clearance is required for this position.This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.Salary Range: $103,500.00 - $181,100.00We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. To learn more about recruitment fraud and how to report it, please refer to https://www.parsons.com/fraudulent-recruitment/.
Skills Required
- U.S. citizenship
- Active TS/SCI security clearance
- Willingness and ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Political Science, International Relations, or a related field
- 8+ years of related experience
- Experience serving in an administrative, staff officer, strategic planning, or comparable role
- Experience facilitating strategic planning sessions and translating broad objectives into actionable plans
- Experience creating visual concepts, sketches, storyboards, or video concepts for complex systems, processes, or strategies
- Experience planning and facilitating meetings that support senior executive or VIP decision-making
- Experience creating and implementing strategic communications plans
- Experience applying human-centered design practices to create visuals that communicate complex ideas
- Experience developing real-time communications products and requirements for senior leaders and organizational stakeholders
Parsons Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Parsons Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by Parsons Corporation.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are framed as a major value driver, with an ESOP alongside a 401(k) match and additional stock-purchase options contributing meaningfully to total rewards. This structure is positioned as especially attractive for employees who value long-term wealth-building over immediate cash.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad and choice-rich, with multiple plan types (PPO, HDHP, and some HMO networks) plus dental, vision, EAP, and wellness resources. The availability of different plan designs and national-carrier coverage supports varied employee needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are portrayed as competitive, including PTO, holidays, flexible schedules such as a 9/80 option for eligible roles, and floating holidays in the U.S. Paid parental leave of 160 hours is also highlighted as a meaningful component of the overall package.
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What We Do
Parsons is a digitally enabled solutions provider with a focus on making the world safer, smarter, healthier, more sustainable, and more connected. Founded in 1944, Parsons primarily serves the defense, security, and infrastructure markets. Uniquely qualified to deliver cyber/converged security, technology-based intellectual property, and other innovative services, the corporation delivers state-of-the-art solutions to federal, regional, and local government agencies as well as to private industrial customers worldwide. Parsons has a reputation for inclusion and diversity and has been named to the Ethisphere Institute’s list of World’s Most Ethical Companies for 10 consecutive years. Parsons facilitates a culture of innovation by encouraging collaboration among its employees and providing opportunities for career growth. With offices around the globe, people of varied talents and backgrounds, and a wide range of exciting projects, the possibilities at Parsons are endless. For more about Parsons, visit www.parsons.com. Mission: Delivering innovative infrastructure, defense, and security solutions to enable a more sustainable, safer, smarter, and more connected world.
