Senior Public Affairs Specialist
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About this role
Barbaricum is a rapidly growing government contractor providing leading-edge support to federal customers, with a particular focus on Defense and National Security mission sets. We leverage more than 17 years of support to stakeholders across the federal government, with established and growing capabilities across Intelligence, Analytics, Engineering, Mission Support, and Communications disciplines. Founded in 2008, our mission is to transform the way our customers approach constantly changing and complex problem sets by bringing to bear the latest in technology and the highest caliber of talent.
Headquartered in Washington, DC's historic Dupont Circle neighborhood, Barbaricum also has a corporate presence in Tampa, FL, Bedford, IN, and Dayton, OH, with team members across the United States and around the world. As a leader in our space, we partner with firms in the private sector, academic institutions, and industry associations with a goal of continually building our expertise and capabilities for the benefit of our employees and the customers we support. Through all of this, we have built a vibrant corporate culture diverse in expertise and perspectives with a focus on collaboration and innovation. Our teams are at the frontier of the Nation's most complex and rewarding challenges. Join our team.
Barbaricum is currently seeking a proficient Public Affairs Specialist to join our dynamic team in support of the Program Executive Office Soldier, focusing on the engineering, building, testing, and deployment of innovative cloud service offerings.
Responsibilities:
- Develops communication plans, including such factors as specific topics or aspects to emphasize the most effective media to utilize in communicating with target audiences, etc.
- Identifies, summarizes and analyzes public comments submitted to the organization.
- Prepares articles for publication, and other informational materials and strategies for communicating activities to support the total management efforts.
- Develops informational materials, such as news releases, fact sheets, feature stories, and background statements.
- Writes articles and speeches for organizational official(s) to specialized publics; prepares and publishes organization publications in keeping al internal personnel informed of programs, activities, and career information.
- Writes public involvement plans for informing and involving the public on issue of local, state and federal significance, as appropriate.
- Arranges and conducts workshops, seminars, and meetings with various other organizations in stimulating participation in its own organizational activities; and in identifying their concerns.
- Advises and assists the supervisor with implementing system(s) to track and address pertinent complaints, concerns and/or issues raised.
- Updates organization web-site, brochures, fact sheets, and other organization publications.
- Develops communications strategies with short term and long-term goals, and plans for achieving such goals.
- Evaluates the impact and effectiveness of communication plans and advises management if efforts should be discontinued, emphasis changed or coverage area expanded, or otherwise modified.
- Reviews all public information materials, publications, media productions, and activities for the organization to assure adherence to policies and regulations.
- Initiates and prepares responses to inquiries from interested groups, and the general public concerning policies and activities of public involvement.
- Prepares web-based contents.
- Updates organization web-site, brochure, fact sheets and other publications.
- May take photographs or video of internal and external events, and maintains database of images.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors in related field.
- 10 years of experience in public affairs.
- Active DoD Secret Security Clearance.
*This is contingent upon a contract award, award is expected in 45 days*
EEO Commitment
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
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