Senior Communications Project Management Specialist

Job Overview

Position is contingent upon a future opening with Gunnison. Start date estimated to be on or around 12/01/2026, possibly sooner.

$125,000 - $138,000/year

Work location: Fully remote

• Serve as primary point of contact for stakeholder communications, coordination, and status updates
• Support ITSO cybersecurity communications, stakeholder coordination, and project management activities
• Conduct Scrum meetings, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
• Oversee and maintain Kanban/Scrum board activities, including task tracking, backlog updates, workflow management, and action item follow-up
• Develop clear communications for technical and non-technical audiences
• Draft, edit, and coordinate cybersecurity bulletins, presentations, newsletters, announcements, meeting materials, and executive-ready content
• Translate cybersecurity, risk, policy, compliance, and technical information into concise customer-facing communications
• Coordinate with ITSO leadership, cybersecurity SMEs, project teams, and AO stakeholders
• Support planning, tracking, and reporting for cybersecurity initiatives, awareness campaigns, governance activities, and recurring customer deliverables
• Maintain schedules, action items, risks, issues, decisions, meeting notes, and status updates
• Prepare briefing materials, status reports, dashboards, communications plans, and customer review packages
• Coordinate peer reviews, quality assurance reviews, and final deliverable checks prior to customer submission
• Support documentation management, quality control, process improvement, and knowledge transfer
• Facilitate meetings, capture outcomes, track follow-up actions, and support timely completion of deliverables
• Operate in a fast‑paced federal consulting environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities

• 7+ years of experience in communications, project management, program support, technical writing, or federal consulting support
• 5+ years supporting cybersecurity, IT, risk management, governance, compliance, or security awareness activities
• Experience serving as a primary point of contact for customer, stakeholder, or team communications
• Experience facilitating Scrum meetings, project meetings, working sessions, or recurring status meetings
• Experience managing Kanban, Scrum, or Agile task boards to track work, priorities, status, and deliverables
• Experience developing communications for technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Experience coordinating with cybersecurity SMEs, program managers, customer leadership, and cross‑functional teams
• Experience supporting project schedules, status reporting, meeting facilitation, action item tracking, risks, issues, and deliverables
• Experience supporting peer reviews, quality assurance, document reviews, or deliverable quality control
• Strong writing, editing, briefing, and quality‑control skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and Teams
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and stakeholder expectations independently
• PMP certification
• CompTIA Security+ or comparable foundational cybersecurity certification
• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, English, Journalism, Business, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field
• Additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree

• Prior AOUSC, federal judiciary, federal civilian, or government consulting experience
• Familiarity with cybersecurity governance, risk management, security policy, security awareness, vulnerability management, incident response communications, or compliance programs
• Familiarity with NIST, FISMA, RMF, cybersecurity controls,…