Global Brand and Digital Communications, Project Manager​/Principal Consultant

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Global Brand and Digital Communications, Project Manager/Principal Consultant

Global Brand and Digital Communications, Project Manager/Principal Consultant

Arlington, VA/Alexandria, VA

Full-time

Description

The Clearing is a management consulting firm that helps leaders solve complex challenges by turning insight into action. We specialize in diagnosing the root causes of organizational friction across people, processes, and technology, then configuring proven solutions that accelerate meaningful, measurable progress.

Our approach blends analytical rigor with human-centered design. Whether we’re enabling change, optimizing workflows, or guiding smart technology adoption, we build everything to scale, repeat, and deliver value. We work across public, private, and mission-driven sectors, partnering with clients to modernize how they lead, work, and deliver.

Our team brings deep experience across disciplines, including change management, strategic planning, organizational design, leadership development, behavioral science, and more. What unites us is a shared belief: real progress happens when we focus on what’s not working, define what’s possible, and deliver outcomes that stick.

If you're excited by purpose-driven work, energized by solving problems at their roots, and passionate about building lasting solutions, we’d love to meet you.

• Lead the planning, execution, monitoring, governance, and closeout of customer-experience, brand, digital communications, organizational-change, strategic-planning, and stakeholder-engagement projects.
• Develop and manage integrated project plans defining scope, objectives, work streams, milestones, schedules, deliverables, budgets, resource needs, dependencies, governance structures, quality controls, risks, and success measures.
• Manage multiple concurrent communications, branding, digital-content, and customer-experience work streams, ensuring clear priorities, timely decisions, coordinated production, and consistent delivery against client expectations.
• Establish project governance and operating rhythms, including work plans, status meetings, decision forums, action-item registers, risk and issue logs, content calendars, editorial schedules, approval workflows, risk logs, and executive reporting cadence.
• Coordinate internal teams, client stakeholders, creative and digital specialists, web teams, subject-matter experts, and external vendors to ensure roles, responsibilities, handoffs, deliverable requirements, and approval authorities are clear.
• Track project schedules, budgets, workload, resource utilization, vendor performance, deliverable quality, and client feedback; identify corrective actions early and communicate risks or decisions requiring leadership attention.
• Facilitate project kickoffs, planning sessions, working meetings, design reviews, executive briefings, stakeholder workshops, retrospectives, and closeout discussions.

• Lead initiatives that strengthen and protect brand consistency across global, regional, and local communications channels, ensuring alignment with established brand standards, visual identity, tone of voice, messaging architecture, and audience expectations.
• Develop project plans and governance processes for global brand initiatives, including brand launches, refreshes, campaigns, messaging updates, digital asset development, content migration, communications rollouts, and adoption activities.
• Partner with communications, marketing, design, web, and regional stakeholders to translate brand strategy into coordinated communications products, campaign materials, digital experiences, and audience-specific content.
• Develop and maintain communications plans that align strategic messages, target audiences, channels, timing, content requirements, approval processes, and performance measures.
• Ensure communications products are clear, accurate, accessible, audience-appropriate, culturally aware, and consistent with organizational standards, client requirements, and applicable security procedures.
• Support the development and implementation of brand-governance structures, including messaging frameworks, editorial guidance, templates, style standards, review processes, content libraries, and digital-asset management practices.
• Prepare executive-level communications products, including leadership briefings, talking points, presentations, key messages, strategic…