Strategic Communications Analyst

Strategic Communications Analyst

This role provides support to the STORM Engineering Directorate at Redstone Arsenal, AL. The Strategic Communications Analyst serves as a Strategic Operations and Communications Specialist responsible for supporting organizational leadership through strategic planning, operational coordination, and enterprise-level communication initiatives. The role leads the planning, coordination, and execution of organizational events, ceremonies, leadership engagements, and official functions.

• Acts as the primary lead for milestone documentation management across multiple Product Teams, overseeing actions from initial planning through final completion.
• Coordinates with stakeholders to develop, track, review, and finalize milestone packages.
• Maintains a comprehensive understanding of Product Team missions, priorities, and weapon system/product portfolios in order to effectively support strategic communications, messaging development, and leadership engagement efforts.
• Develops communication products, talking points, executive summaries, leadership remarks, and strategic messaging that accurately communicate organizational objectives, accomplishments, and program impacts to senior leaders and external audiences.
• Serves as the lead coordinator for public release actions and strategic communication reviews.
• Manages the staffing, review, and coordination process for documents, presentations, articles, media products, photographs, and other materials requiring public release approval.
• Ensures all products comply with organizational policies, operational security requirements, public affairs guidance, and higher headquarters release procedures prior to dissemination.
• Leads and supports process improvement initiatives by identifying workflow inefficiencies, evaluating current business operations, and implementing streamlined procedures to improve organizational effectiveness and mission execution.
• Coordinates and manages general staffing actions, including task management, action tracking, suspense coordination, staffing package development, and routing of decision documents through appropriate leadership channels.
• Works collaboratively across functional organizations, Product Teams, and leadership offices to synchronize efforts, resolve issues, improve communication flow, and strengthen operational integration across the enterprise.
• Provides strategic operational support to leadership by assisting with organizational planning efforts, cross-functional coordination, and execution of high-visibility initiatives critical to mission success.

• Bachelor’s degree with 10 years of experience, Master’s degree with 8 years of experience, or a high school diploma with 14 years of experience.
• Possess an Active DoD security clearance at the Secret or higher level.
• Two or more years of experience dealing with the release of information to the public through official channels.
• Two or more years of experience coordinating between functional areas and leadership of an organization for development/formulation of essential messaging for the entire staff.
• Two or more years of experience coordinating with graphics personnel and other organizations in the development of planning activities in support of special functions and initiative programs.
• Two or more years of professional writing experience ensuring proper details, grammar and style.
• Two or more years of experience dealing with acquisition programs and have developed a fundamental knowledge of Army Acquisition life cycles is preferred.

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