Senior Communications Specialist

Eager to join a team where your skills are valued, your growth is nurtured, and your impact is profound? Look no further than Markon, a premier consulting firm deeply dedicated to advancing our nation's most critical missions.

 

At Markon, we don't just offer jobs – we offer opportunities for personal and professional transformation. Empowering our employees to lead, innovate, and excel, we foster an environment where new ideas are not just welcomed but celebrated. As a perennial Washington Post Top Workplace, we prioritize the well-being and success of our team members, ensuring they can bring their best selves to work.

 

Headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, Markon has garnered national recognition for our unwavering dedication to excellence in serving the intelligence community, as well as federal civilian and defense agencies. Our growing reach extends across 17 states, 116 countries, and 5 continents, where our team of dynamic professionals collaborates to deliver unparalleled program and project management services.

 

Markon values people and the tremendous impact each individual can make – which is why we’re consistently recognized as one of the best places to work in federal government consulting. Here, you can help solve the nation’s most important challenges, surrounded by colleagues who help you grow, advance, and succeed. We are deeply dedicated to what matters – bringing out the best in each other to advance our clients’ missions.

Join us and make a meaningful impact.

 

Markon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Markon is seeking an experienced Communications Specialist to support an Intelligence Customer.

This position works closely with the Front Office to support the advancement and focus of the organization’s evolution and strategic direction. This position will support activities to include:

• Translate operational requirements into strategic direction.
• Validate, document, and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Support documentation reviews and coordination.
• Support programmatic workflow development.
• Support milestone readiness and program portfolio planning.
• Requirements tracking.
• Framework development for mission efficiency and effectiveness.
• Other ad hoc tasking as required.

• TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph

• BA/BS and 8+ years of experience or Masters and 6+ years  of experience; an additional four years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Ability to support senior customer managers with the capture and documentation of strategy development and production of briefing materials for senior leadership.
• Ability to support communication efforts, drafting emails, meeting notes, etc. with various stakeholders to ensure coordination and information flow.
• Ability to capture data and integrate it into presentations for the customers compliance review board briefings.
• Experience in capturing information and building strategic presentations and documentation.
• Experience with programmatic activities including tracking actions, documenting management decisions, and maintaining configuration management and providing seamless support to Front Office systems and processes.
• Ability to support planning, meeting organization, drafting meeting agendas, etc.
• Ability to collect and assemble office-wide input for recurring meetings with senior leadership.
• Ability to support the planning for customer events, such as quarterly all-hands meetings, offsites, technical exchange meetings.
• Confluence/SharePoint/Hive proficient user.

Desired Qualifications

• Prior customer experience across the organization.
• Experience supporting senior level management.
• Experience working across organizational boundaries to achieve mission goals.

USD $160,000.00 - USD $175,000.00 /Yr.

The Markon pay range for this position is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.