Senior Strategic Communications and Outreach Specialist

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Markon is looking for a Senior Strategic Communications and Outreach Specialist to support a long term, multi-year, high performing program responsible for the installation, configuration and deployment of a new PeopleSoft implementation for a Government customer.

In this role, you will brainstorm, design, and implement a plan to communicate the IT specific elements of an enterprise-wide system implementation. As the Communications and Customer Outreach specialist, you will create articles, quick reference guides, infographics, webpage content, as well as facilitating working groups, customer engagements, and briefing senior leadership on progress.

The communications specialist is responsible for managing all formal communications with internal project team and external stakeholders. They will collaborate with customers and stakeholders to determine their specific requirements for communications as well as determining the frequency and the format of each communication.

Other duties include:

Coordinate events and facilitate both internal and stakeholder meetings.
• Collaborate and understand team and customer vision and articulate in written, graphical and presentation format (i.e. Power Point)
• Manage and ensure currency of program artifacts and manage regular program communications.
• Effectively communicate clearly and succinctly both written and orally, and present products and ideas in a business-like manner.
• Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to determine their specific requirements for communications as well as determining the frequency and the format of each communication.
• Work in dynamic fast paced environments that require team interaction and coordination of efforts.

• TS/SCI FSP Clearance (current).
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 12 years of relevant experience
• Experienced in Power Point and visualization and reporting tools
• Adaptable to changing circumstances, operational needs and technologies
• These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:
• Familiarity with federal HR and HCM
• Experience with change management
• Experienced in interfacing with both client managers, project team and system users.