Senior Communication Designer
McLean, MD - USA
Job Summary
Steampunk is seeking a Senior Communications Designer to build an enterprise communications strategy and operating model for a large federal advisory program.
- Deliver an Enterprise Communication Strategy
- Stand up a one voice communications operating model shared calendar standardized templates plain-language standards
- Build personas and stakeholder maps segmenting executive oversight workforce and public audiences to tailor communications while preserving the one voice standard
- Design executive reports and dashboards wireframed and usability-tested with the leadership audience before automation
- Apply Plain Writing Act standards to all communications content
- Assess communication messaging efficacy through surveys and stakeholder engagement continuously refining dissemination approaches based on findings
- Support piloting of AI-assisted content drafting tailoring and summarization under approved governance with mandatory human review before release and never inputting sensitive proprietary PII PHI or CUI into an AI tool without authorization
- Build and deliver communications knowledge-transfer materials progressively transitioning routine operation of the communications program to client staff
Required:
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance
- Bachelors degree
- 8 years of communications strategy or content design experience including executive-facing reporting products
- Demonstrated experience applying plain-language standards to complex technical/policy content
- Experience building personas and stakeholder/audience segmentation for large multi-audience communications programs
- Experience wireframing and usability-testing communications products with executive audiences
- Experience measuring communications effectiveness through surveys or feedback mechanisms and iterating based on results
- Experience building communications knowledge-transfer materials to enable client teams to sustain a communications program independently
Preferred:
- Federal communications experience including familiarity with the Plain Writing Act
- Experience piloting AI-assisted content workflows under a formal governance/human-review process
Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland Federal Civilian Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story visit .
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by participates in the E-Verify program.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
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