Communications Specialist - Part Time - The Building People

The Building People, LLC, has a position open for a part-time Communications Specialist on our  communications team which supports internal and external stakeholder engagement efforts for a variety of federal clients.

The Communications Specialist helps communicate  our client’s mission, activities, and goals externally and internally. Using a variety of tactics and strategies, this person will help elevate the awareness of the office’s activities to stakeholders, the public, and agency leadership. The Communications Specialist will:

• Deliver marketing strategies, work plans, detailed scope-of-work proposals and comprehensive reports and status updates to guide all marketing initiatives.
• Coordinates and manages the status of a client’s projects, ensuring all business and project goals are met while also managing all aspects of the project schedule, resources, and budgets.
• Perform analysis and develops briefing summaries for high-ranking federal clients
• Support  in identifying, organizing, and analyses in response to various stakeholders needs and requests (White House, Congressional, Industry, etc.).
• Review technical and strategic documents to best identify which offices have equities in the topics of meetings and workshops that leadership is attending. Including but not limited to vision studies, roadmaps, multi-year program plans, reports, briefings, etc.
• Review technical reports, white papers, Agency reports, policies or other current articles affecting the programs, budget documents, and outreach materials to extract relevant findings to inform agency leadership
• Organize or participate in (virtual or in-person) conferences, workshops, peer reviews, interagency meetings, and other program meetings and develop summary documents that track action items and/or outcomes.
• Conduct background research and write memos for leadership regarding stakeholder requests and events they plan to attend.
• Schedule virtual or in-person meetings and track engagements in stakeholder calendar.
• Draft meeting agendas / materials and track action items and meeting outcomes.
• Gather information from different sources throughout EERE to respond to external stakeholders
• Write responses and develop resources for external stakeholders.

• 8 (eight) years’ experience. Master’s Degree may be substituted for two (2) years of experience.
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Strong writing and editing skills
• Strong oral communication skills
• Detailed oriented; able to track multiple projects and tasks.
• Project management experience

• Energy industry knowledge a plus

• Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree