Job Description
What You Will Be Doing
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Leading strategic communications support for customer requirements, including strategy and planning documents, leadership messaging, talking points, speeches, remarks, and executive communications.
Owning the Weekly Activity Report lifecycle, including collecting inputs, drafting/editing content, coordinating reviews, managing version control, and delivering final products on schedule.
Supporting internal and external events by coordinating logistics, developing messaging and supporting materials, and producing post-event summaries or follow-on communications as needed.
Serving as the primary author for fact sheets, articles, email messaging, newsletter content, marketing copy, website content, and other communications products, as required.
Preparing assignments and drafts based on input from subject matter experts and leadership direction.
Researching, writing, editing, formatting, and conducting quality checks for products intended for hardcopy and electronic publication, including dissemination across multiple platforms.
Ensuring accuracy, consistency, readability, tone, and accessibility compliance appropriate to the medium and audience.
Rewriting and refining submissions to improve organization, clarity, grammar, and flow while maintaining intent and tradecraft standards.
Preparing and editing speeches, scripts, testimony materials, and formal statements for senior executives for live or recorded delivery.
Advising and coaching leadership on messaging clarity and presentation delivery when requested.
Required Skills
Must Have
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MUST HAVE a Current and Active Top Secret SCI with Polygraph, as the customer is NOT sponsoring clearances.
Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of relevant experience or 9+ years of relevant experience without a degree.
Demonstrated experience producing executive-level communications, including leadership messaging, talking points, speeches, and written products for senior audiences.
Strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills with the ability to convey complex information clearly and simply.
Proven ability to operate independently, manage competing priorities, and deliver high-quality products under time constraints.
Experience coordinating across stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams, including design and web support.
Familiarity with accessibility and publication standards and applying them to written and web-based products.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and collaboration tools (e.g., MS Teams, SharePoint).
Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud tools to support content development and coordination.
Additional Details
Crimson Phoenix
considers people our most important asset. Our goal is to attract, retain, and motivate exceptional individuals from every background who share our commitment to the customer, our passion for the mission, our delight for innovation, and our determination to achieve excellence in everything we do.
We offer phenomenal benefits to our employees, allowing them to focus on the mission, knowing that Crimson Phoenix is focused on them! Just some of the benefits we offer:
Dollar for dollar 6% 401k match, with immediate vestment
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Multiple Medical Plans from which you can choose.
Flexible Spending Account (FSA) option
Vision / Dental
Paid for Short-term / Long-term Disability
Paid for Group Life Insurance
Employee recognition for anniversaries, birthdays, and customer kudos!
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We
are a small, growth-oriented, federal contractor that delivers professional services in support of the Intelligence & Federal Community. Located outside of Washington D.C., we are a fast-paced group due to the customers' diversity, types of projects, environments, and roles we support. To learn more, please visit https://crimsonphoenix.com/
Crimson Phoenix is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We welcome and encourage diversity in our workforce.
It is the policy of Crimson Phoenix to provide equal employment opportunity to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state or local law.

Strategic Communications Specialist, JM- Senior
Crimson Phoenix, Bethesda, MD, United States