The Strategic Communications SME serves as the bridge between PMOD's technical, acquisition, engineering, logistics, and financial organizations and executive leadership by transforming complex program information into clear, actionable, decision-quality communications that support PMOD portfolio management, acquisition execution, and mission success. This role directly supports PMOD's objective to provide executive decision-makers with timely, complete, and accurate information while ensuring transparent communications across all acquisition and engineering activities.
Responsibilities:
The Strategic Communications SME shall possess a minimum of eight (8) years of experience supporting technical communications, acquisition communications, systems engineering communications, program management communications, or executive decision-support activities for complex Federal Government technology, engineering, or acquisition programs.
The candidate shall demonstrate the following qualifications:
- Experience translating complex technical, engineering, testing, logistics, financial, and acquisition information into concise executive-level communications and decision-support products.
- Experience supporting Program Management Offices (PMOs), Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), systems engineering organizations, or acquisition organizations.
- Experience developing executive briefings, technical presentations, white papers, acquisition summaries, decision memoranda, technical reports, and portfolio status updates.
- Experience supporting communications associated with system acquisition lifecycle activities, including requirements development, market research, testing, deployment, sustainment, logistics, and budget execution.
- Experience coordinating and documenting technical review boards, engineering reviews, acquisition reviews, governance boards, IPT meetings, and executive decision forums.
- Experience collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, and communicating information from engineering, logistics, acquisition, testing, environmental, and financial teams into integrated portfolio-level reporting.
- Experience supporting risk communication and technical issue management by documenting and communicating risks, impacts, mitigation strategies, and recommendations.
- Strong technical writing and editing skills with experience producing high-quality government documentation.
Required Experience in years:
- Minimum of eight (8) years of experience developing and communicating technical, engineering, acquisition, logistics, budget, and programmatic information to executive leadership and stakeholders.
Education Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Communications, Technical Communications, Engineering Management, Systems Engineering, Business Administration, Public Administration, Information Technology, or a related field.
- In lieu of a degree, an additional four (4) years of directly related management analysis, program support, or business operations experience may be substituted.
Security Requirements:
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a DHS suitability determination and/or Public Trust investigation as required by the Government.
- Active DHS or CBP suitability determination is highly desirable.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience supporting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Border Patrol (USBP), or other Federal law enforcement organizations.
- Knowledge of DHS Acquisition Lifecycle Framework (ALF), DHS Acquisition Management Directive 102-01, Systems Engineering Life Cycle (SELC), and Federal acquisition processes.
- Experience supporting border security technologies, surveillance systems, communications systems, sensor systems, command and control systems, or fielded operational technologies.
- Experience supporting acquisition portfolios such as Integrated Fixed Towers (IFT), Remote Video Surveillance Systems (RVSS), Mobile and Agent-Centric Systems (MACS), Linear Ground Detection Systems (LGDS), or similar technology programs.
- Familiarity with engineering documentation, test and evaluation processes, logistics planning, deployment planning, and lifecycle sustainment activities.
- Project Management Professional (PMP), DAWIA/FAC certifications, INCOSE certifications, Certified Technical Professional, or similar credentials are desirable.
- Experience supporting Senior Executive Service (SES) leadership and executive governance processes.
- Experience supporting communications related to cost, schedule, performance, risk, and operational readiness of technology programs.
- Experience developing communication products supporting SELC reviews, Acquisition Decision Events (ADEs), program reviews, milestone reviews, deployment reviews, and executive leadership engagements.
- Experience supporting leadership with the preparation of responses to internal and external information requests, Congressional inquiries, DHS data calls, OMB requests, and executive reporting requirements.
