Communications Specialist

### **Job Duties**
Job duties include but are not limited to:

– **Presentation Materials** — Develop presentation materials, briefings, and memorandums for VHA Senior Leadership on topics such as VHA IT budget, IT governance, and SIM processes.
– **Communications Plan** — Create and update the SIM Communications and Stakeholder Engagement Plan, including objectives, strategies, stakeholder identification, key messages, distribution plans, and evaluation methods.
– **Newsletters** — Produce quarterly internal newsletters and develop external communications such as email announcements and reference guides illustrating SIM’s Intake Process.
– **Communication Products** — Support the development and update of SIM communication products, including branding materials, toolkits, videos, elevator speeches, fact sheets, blogs, and briefing slide decks.
– **Meeting Support** — Manage and support meetings on behalf of the EDO, including interaction with VHA Leadership, SIM’s customers, Program Offices, Field Representatives, and other stakeholders to develop agendas, prepare materials, coordinate scheduling, facilitate meetings, support decision‑making processes, and take minutes.
– **BOF Coordination** — Coordinate meeting preparations for the VHA Business Owner Forum (BOF), including agenda development, presentation material consolidation, meeting facilitation, and action item tracking.
– **Strategic Briefs** — Coordinate and develop updates for SIM Quarterly Strategic Briefs for All Hands Meetings, highlighting quarterly accomplishments, milestones, and risks for each SIM division.
– **Change Management** — Provide change management support following the Prosci Change Management Framework to implement strategies that support program operations and stakeholder engagement.
– **Program Management** — Lead and manage program management tasks for the EDO, ensuring alignment with strategic goals, including developing and maintaining the EDO Project Management Plan (PMP).
– **Process Improvement** — Analyze SIM operations and make recommendations for process improvement.
– **Strategic Planning** — Facilitate strategic planning sessions and workshops with leadership.
– **Risk Management** — Identify and report operational and project risks and mitigate assigned risks in accordance with the program’s or project’s risk management process.

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### **Requirements**
– Bachelor’s degree
– Minimum 4 years of relevant experience
– Previous VA experience is **REQUIRED**

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### **Benefits**
– Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
– Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
– Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
– Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
– Short Term & Long Term Disability
– Training & Development

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