Strategic Communications Manager

🕒 August 17

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🗣️ Communications

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Aptive Resources

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2012

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Defense • Logistics • Marketing

Aptive Resources is a management consulting firm based in Alexandria, Virginia, specializing in providing innovative solutions to federal government agencies, particularly in veteran and civilian health sectors. With a strong focus on performance optimization, human capital, and data analytics, Aptive aims to improve the quality and accessibility of health care services for veterans and the general public. The company utilizes technology and human-centered services to bridge divides and enhance public service delivery for multiple agencies, including Veterans Affairs, Defense, and others.

📋 Description

• Lead, supervise, and develop a team of communications specialists. • Assign work, set priorities, balance workload against competing deadlines, and manage team capacity. • Review and approve team work products for quality, accuracy, and consistency. • Provide coaching, feedback, performance input, and professional development; support hiring, onboarding, and retention. • Establish team standards, style guidance, editorial workflows, review cycles, and version control practices. • Serve as the primary communications contact for client leadership and manage expectations, escalations, and competing requests. • Support congressional testimony preparation for federal senior leaders. • Draft talking points, executive summaries, briefings, and executive-level communications products. • Coordinate with subject matter experts, leaders, and stakeholders to develop senior-leader messaging. • Translate complex messaging into plain language. • Ensure content reflects critical information and standardized messaging, tone, and voice. • Review documents for stylistic and formatting consistency and alignment with client style guides and federal plain-language standards. • Identify targeted stakeholders and support implementation of executive communications decisions. • Maintain communication channels between VHA Central Office, VISNs, and VA Medical Centers. • Coordinate communications strategies, plans, and mission statements with VA staff offices. • Update, execute, and maintain the Communications Plan, integrating it with EHR product and program plans.

🎯 Requirements

• 8 years of related communications experience. • 2+ years supervising, leading, or mentoring communications staff. • Bachelor's degree in a related field. • Experience managing team workload, review cycles, and delivery against firm deadlines. • Experience supporting complex projects and transformation efforts within the federal government. • Experience creating, executing, and measuring strategic communications plans. • Comfortability supporting complex client relationships. • Ability to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance. • Legal authorization to work in the U.S.

🏖️ Benefits

• Professional development for team members • Coaching and feedback • Equal opportunity employment • Veterans, members of the Reserve and National Guard, and transitioning active-duty service members are highly encouraged to apply