What are the responsibilities and job description for the Communications and Graphics Specialist position at Arcfield?
Overview
Arcfield was purpose-built to protect the nation and its allies through innovations in digital transformation, space mission engineering and launch assurance, miniaturized sensors and satellites, advanced modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, and conventional and hypersonic missile support. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA with 16 global offices, Arcfield employs more than 1,500 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals with more than 60 years of collective proven experience supporting missions in cyber and space defense, space exploration, hypersonic and nuclear deterrence and warfighter readiness. Visit arcfield.com for more details.
Responsibilities
Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference in the government space? Do you continually improve products and processes and get ahead of problems rather than waiting for them to occur? What if you could find a position that leverages your openness to change, technical, graphics and communication skills? That's why we need you, an experienced senior advisor with strong communication, technical, and program skills, to provide strategic communications and graphics support to senior level government directors for ground enterprise solutions in the IC and DoD.
Our Chief of Staff team is responsible for providing strategic, management, and business operations support to senior level government directors. Responsibilities include developing, facilitating and managing communications graphics, logos, reports, strategies, plans and forums for a large organization. This includes developing and crafting a broad range of communication graphics, publications and products and translating deep programmatic or technical information into understandable concepts.
The candidate will support the development and execution of the customer’s communication and engagement strategy ensuring consistency in clear, concise and relevant messages for all stakeholder communications. This includes helping plan and execute social morale events, internal/external Congressional communications, strategic outreach, Weekly Activity Reports, executive-level briefings for Congressional Staffers and VIP visitors, photography and organizational charts, and All-Hands meeting content and materials. The candidate will work with executive leaders, turning their vision into finished written and displayable products.
The selected candidate will have frequent client interactions, and support system and mission strategy development across the various ground offices. The candidate will have daily interaction with the customer and supporting contractors, and will need to follow customer standards and processes as the program matures through the life cycle. Candidate will interact with multiple Acquisition Offices (AOs) and support technical consultation, meeting coordination, and support to recommendation briefings
Qualifications
EEO
Arcfield proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active-Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Arcfield was purpose-built to protect the nation and its allies through innovations in digital transformation, space mission engineering and launch assurance, miniaturized sensors and satellites, advanced modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, and conventional and hypersonic missile support. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA with 16 global offices, Arcfield employs more than 1,500 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals with more than 60 years of collective proven experience supporting missions in cyber and space defense, space exploration, hypersonic and nuclear deterrence and warfighter readiness. Visit arcfield.com for more details.
Responsibilities
Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference in the government space? Do you continually improve products and processes and get ahead of problems rather than waiting for them to occur? What if you could find a position that leverages your openness to change, technical, graphics and communication skills? That's why we need you, an experienced senior advisor with strong communication, technical, and program skills, to provide strategic communications and graphics support to senior level government directors for ground enterprise solutions in the IC and DoD.
Our Chief of Staff team is responsible for providing strategic, management, and business operations support to senior level government directors. Responsibilities include developing, facilitating and managing communications graphics, logos, reports, strategies, plans and forums for a large organization. This includes developing and crafting a broad range of communication graphics, publications and products and translating deep programmatic or technical information into understandable concepts.
The candidate will support the development and execution of the customer’s communication and engagement strategy ensuring consistency in clear, concise and relevant messages for all stakeholder communications. This includes helping plan and execute social morale events, internal/external Congressional communications, strategic outreach, Weekly Activity Reports, executive-level briefings for Congressional Staffers and VIP visitors, photography and organizational charts, and All-Hands meeting content and materials. The candidate will work with executive leaders, turning their vision into finished written and displayable products.
The selected candidate will have frequent client interactions, and support system and mission strategy development across the various ground offices. The candidate will have daily interaction with the customer and supporting contractors, and will need to follow customer standards and processes as the program matures through the life cycle. Candidate will interact with multiple Acquisition Offices (AOs) and support technical consultation, meeting coordination, and support to recommendation briefings
Qualifications
- Requires 10 to 12 years with BS/BA or 8 to 10 years with MS/MA or 5 to 7 years with PhD.
- Clearance required: Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI Clearance with Poly.
- More than 3 years’ experience developing, facilitating and managing communications graphics, publications, strategies and plans for a large organization
- Experience working on a team toward a common goal
- Experience working within a highly functional staff with a diverse set of responsibilities and activities united by a common vision
- Experience using creative interpretation; skilled at working with executive leaders, turning their vision into finished written and displayable products
- Experience and proficiency with graphics and publishing software packages including Publisher, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Indesign
- Skilled in a variety of Microsoft Office and other communication tools
- Commitment to recognize, understand, respect and operate effectively within various SETA, FFRDC, and Government lines of authority
- Basic understanding of modern software development processes (e.g., Agile development, DevSecOps)
- Knowledge of customer's mission capabilities (to include GEOINT, SIGINT and Multi-INT domains) and overall space and ground architecture
EEO
Arcfield proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active-Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.
