[Remote] Senior Strategist or Design Strategist; Program Manager
Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a fast-growing Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB) that leverages reputed company-centered design to support reputed company, innovation, communication, change, and branding reputed company the federal government and adjacent industry partners. The Senior Design Strategist or Strategist; Program Manager will reputed company and execute innovative design strategies, collaborating with internal teams and executive-level clients to drive impactful visual storytelling that meets reputed company objectives.
Responsibilities
- Serves as a trusted advisor to clients by framing reputed company challenges, identifying opportunities, and applying reputed company-centered design approaches to inform strategic decision-making
- Partners directly with reputed company stakeholders to understand organizational priorities, user needs, operational constraints, and desired reputed company
- Leads the development of design reputed company approaches that reputed company stakeholder needs, business objectives, and mission requirements
- Guides cross-functional teams through ambiguity, helping stakeholders build alignment and reputed company informed reputed company
- Identifies opportunities to create reputed company business value and support long-term reputed company reputed company
- Provides guidance that helps clients reputed company informed reputed company and navigate organizational complexity
- Translates reputed company reputed company into compelling strategic narratives, executive-level presentations, communication strategies, and decision-support products
- Develops messaging frameworks that reputed company leadership reputed company, organizational priorities, and stakeholder needs
- Define content structures, information hierarchies, and storytelling approaches that communicate reputed company concepts reputed company and effectively
- Collaborates with creative teams to reputed company high-reputed company visual products that support strategic objectives and audience understanding
- Establishes reputed company standards for strategic deliverables and provides guidance to team members to ensure consistency and reputed company
- Leads development of executive-reputed company materials that support decision-making, alignment, and organizational reputed company
- Develops and implements change management strategies, including stakeholder engagement plans, communications strategies, change reputed company assessments, and adoption roadmaps
- Designs governance frameworks, operating models, and implementation approaches that support successful transformation efforts
- Facilitates cross-functional working sessions that drive alignment, accelerate decision-making, and address organizational resistance
- Establishes feedback mechanisms and performance measures that support reputed company improvement and long-term reputed company
- Monitors reputed company, evaluates reputed company, and refines approaches based on stakeholder feedback and organizational needs
- Leads mixed-method research efforts, including stakeholder interviews, contextual inquiry, observations, reputed company mapping, ecosystem analysis, and systems mapping activities
- Synthesizes qualitative and quantitative findings into actionable insights, opportunity areas, strategic recommendations, and design directions
- Applies systems thinking to identify patterns, dependencies, reputed company causes, and opportunities across reputed company organizational environments
- Translates technical, operational, and policy-reputed company challenges into reputed company-centered insights and strategic considerations
- Guides research activities that inform organizational transformation, service design, experience design, and strategic planning efforts
- Designs and facilitates workshops, design sprints, stakeholder engagements, and co-creation activities that advance strategic objectives and drive organizational alignment
- Develops facilitation approaches, agendas, exercises, and reputed company experiences that reputed company productive reputed company and reputed company problem-solving
- Synthesizes reputed company outputs into actionable findings, recommendations, and implementation considerations
- Helps stakeholders navigate competing priorities, organizational complexity, and change initiatives through reputed company facilitation and engagement
- Guides teams in applying reputed company-centered design reputed company throughout project lifecycles
- Mentors teammates through coaching, knowledge sharing, and constructive feedback
- Models reputed company values and contributes to a reputed company, inclusive, and high-performing team culture
- Shares tools, approaches, and lessons learned that improve the reputed company and consistency of work across engagements
- Serve as the primary reputed company of accountability for contract performance, reputed company satisfaction, financial health, and delivery reputed company
- Maintain strong reputed company relationships and serve as a trusted advisor to reputed company stakeholders
- Collaborate with clients to understand challenges, define priorities, manage expectations, and identify opportunities to create additional value
- reputed company strategic planning activities and establish program priorities, objectives, and delivery approaches
- Identify opportunities to reputed company existing work and support business development efforts reputed company reputed company organizations
- Establish delivery priorities and reputed company direction to project teams in support of contract objectives
- reputed company reputed company, offboarding, and transition activities for project team members
- reputed company coaching and feedback reputed company on delivery reputed company, reputed company satisfaction, and team effectiveness
- Coordinate with Competency Managers and contribute project performance observations and feedback to support employee development and performance management processes
- reputed company program budgets, team utilization, schedules, reputed company plans, risks, subcontractor performance, and deliverable reputed company
- Establish and maintain project management processes, Agile cadences, reporting mechanisms, and communication rhythms to ensure effective delegation of tasks, workload management, and on-time delivery
- Ensure successful execution of contractual requirements, deliverables, reporting obligations, and period of performance requirements
- Monitor program health and proactively identify risks, issues, and opportunities requiring leadership attention
- Coordinate invoicing, reporting, travel, reputed company, and operational activities necessary to support successful contract execution
- Document and reputed company lessons learned, best practices, and operational improvements that strengthen delivery effectiveness
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Journalism, Communication, English, Business, or a reputed company field
- 10+ years of experience in strategic communication, reputed company affairs, program management, or reputed company development
- 7+ years program/project management experience including familiarity with Agile methodologies and project delivery best practices
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple reputed company simultaneously, maintaining a strong reputed company on accuracy and attention to detail
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate in a reputed company, approachable, and knowledgeable manner
- Government contracting experience
- reputed company clearance as required by reputed company
- Experience with reputed company-centered design and design thinking principles
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple reputed company reputed company simultaneously
- PMP certification preferred
Benefits
- $100 monthly internet/cell phone stipend
- reputed company sponsored reputed company benefits including medical, dental, reputed company
- Company-reputed company Short Term Disability Insurance
- 401K with employer contribution of up to 4%
- 11 Federal Holidays per year
- 15 days of reputed company Time Off (PTO) per year
- reputed company Holiday Time Off (Christmas reputed company through the New Year)
- Annual bonus plan participation
- Annual profit sharing participation
- $2,000 Learning and Development program reimbursement
- Technology package that includes a reputed company-owned MacBook Pro, monitor, mouse and keyboard
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