Public Affairs Subject Matter Expert

Public Affairs Subject Matter Expert – Crystal City, VA
Delta Solutions and Strategies is seeking a Public Affairs Subject Matter Expert with legislative and budget experience in Crystal City, VA. This position supports United States Space Force Task Force Futures mission objectives through integrated planning, execution, and assessment of communication capabilities in support of Futures.

What You Will Be Doing
Monitor all DoD and major news and social media platforms daily to keep Futures leadership abreast of breaking news and timely mention of relevant topics and leadership.

Write articles, speeches, and captions for visual information products (e.g., photos, graphics).

Advise and assist Task Force-Futures to develop plans and strategic messaging as well as policies and procedures.

Prepare Futures leadership for public and military engagements, track events and requests.

Manage ETMS2 Task Management system; track tasks through to completion; provide status updates to leadership.

What You Will Need
Excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to communicate effectively with senior military and government civilian leaders.

Ability to multi-task competing priorities, deliver content quickly, and pay strict attention to detail.

Ability to be a highly flexible self-starter capable of operating in a high ops tempo environment in quick-turn (less than 1-hour) time management conditions.

Possess excellent research, organizational, interpersonal, relationship building, analysis, and data gathering skills.

Bachelor’s or master’s degree with 3–10 years of experience in a Public Affairs related career field desired. 5+ years of relevant experience or certifications in lieu of degree requirements.

Familiarity with military operations in the space domain, including key space operations concepts and acronyms is desired.

Understanding of Congress and the legislative and budget processes.

Current Top Secret/SCI clearance or Top Secret with SCI eligibility is preferred. Qualified individuals possessing a Secret clearance will be considered with the expectation that the candidate will be submitted for a TS/SCI upon hire.

Benefits
Delta Solutions & Strategies offers a generous benefits package to include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k), PTO, paid holidays, parental, military, and jury duty paid leaves.

Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not and will not discriminate in employment and personnel practices based on race, sex, age, disability, veteran status, religion, national origin, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Hiring, transferring, and promotion practices are performed without regard to the above listed items.
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