Communications and Stakeholder Engagement Specialist
Job Description
Description
ICF is seeking a Communications and Stakeholder Engagement Specialist to support a marketing and communications campaign through the development, execution, management, and evaluation of communications, outreach, and stakeholder engagement strategies. The successful candidate will help advance campaign goals by developing clear messaging, supporting stakeholder outreach, coordinating engagement activities, creating communications materials, and helping ensure information reaches target audiences and priority populations.
This role requires a communications professional with strong writing, editing, stakeholder engagement, outreach coordination, message development, and campaign support experience. The Communications and Stakeholder Engagement Specialist will support campaign strategy, messaging, content planning, partner and stakeholder engagement, outreach activities, performance tracking, and reporting. The ideal candidate understands audience-centered communications, stakeholder relationship management, outreach best practices, and how to use data and feedback to improve campaign effectiveness.
What You’ll Do
- Support the planning and implementation of marketing, communications, outreach, and stakeholder engagement activities.
- Develop, edit, and manage campaign communications materials aligned with campaign goals, messaging, audiences, and brand requirements.
- Support the development of communication strategies, messaging frameworks, stakeholder engagement plans, outreach plans, content strategies, and editorial calendars.
- Coordinate stakeholder outreach activities, including engagement with partner organizations, community groups, industry audiences, and other priority stakeholders.
- Conduct research on target audiences, stakeholders, industries, and market development strategies to help ensure campaign outreach reaches priority populations.
- Support meetings, briefings, presentations, listening sessions, webinars, events, or other stakeholder engagement activities, including preparation of materials and follow-up documentation.
- Collect, organize, and analyze stakeholder feedback, engagement data, outreach metrics, and campaign performance information to assess effectiveness.
- Prepare campaign summaries, stakeholder updates, metrics reports, insights, and recommendations in collaboration with communications, creative, technical, analytics, and client-facing teams.
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, public relations, journalism, public policy, social sciences, or a related field or equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of relevant professional experience to include experience supporting communications, stakeholder engagement, outreach, public affairs, marketing, or public-facing campaigns.
- U.S. Citizenship required by the Federal government for this position.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting federal, state, local, nonprofit, public health, energy, environment, education, workforce development, recruitment marketing, or other mission-driven marketing and communications campaigns.
- Experience developing stakeholder engagement plans, partner outreach strategies, meeting materials, briefing documents, talking points, newsletters, fact sheets, presentations, or public-facing communications materials.
- Experience translating technical or complex subject matter into clear, engaging content for diverse audiences.
- Experience working in a client-facing consulting environment.
- Familiarity with paid, organic, and integrated communications or digital media strategies.
- Experience applying accessibility, plain language, and inclusive communications best practices.
- Familiarity with Washington, DC-area stakeholders, organizations, media markets, or public-sector audiences.
- Familiarity with workforce development and recruitment marketing programs.
Professional Skills
- Experience developing communication strategies, messaging, outreach materials, stakeholder engagement materials, content calendars, campaign reports, audience personas, outreach plans, or marketing campaign materials.
- Experience coordinating stakeholder outreach or engagement activities for campaigns, organizations, clients, or public-facing initiatives.
- Strong writing, editing, proofreading, and content development skills.
- Experience researching target audiences, stakeholder groups, industries, and market development strategies to support effective outreach and engagement.
- Ability to collect and analyze communications, outreach, stakeholder engagement, or campaign performance data and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
- Ability to think creatively and contribute to solutions for clients’ communications and stakeholder engagement challenges.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong facilitation, coordination, and relationship-building skills.
- Strong editorial judgment and attention to detail.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple deadlines, deliverables, stakeholder needs, and campaign priorities.
- Ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.
- Sound judgment when supporting public-facing communications and high-visibility stakeholder engagement activities.
- Ability to work independently while aligning with project, client, and brand requirements.
Work Environment / Location
This is a DC area-based position with the opportunity to meet with clients, partners, and stakeholders at client sites and partner office locations. This role must be supported within a commutable distance of ICF-established offices; hybrid work is fully supported.
Working at ICF
ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider, but we’re not your typical consultants. We combine unmatched expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients solve their most complex challenges, navigate change, and shape the future.We can only solve the world's toughest challenges by building a workplace that allows everyone to thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer. Together, our employees are empowered to share their expertise and collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information, please read our EEO policy.
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Reasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process. To request an accommodation, please email [email protected] and we will be happy to assist. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.
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At ICF, we are committed to ensuring a fair interview process for all candidates based on their own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate or assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is not permitted. This policy is in place to maintain the integrity and authenticity of the interview process.
However, we understand that some candidates may require accommodation that involves the use of AI. If such an accommodation is needed, candidates are instructed to contact us in advance at [email protected]. We are dedicated to providing the necessary support to ensure that all candidates have an equal opportunity to succeed.
Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.
The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is:
$81,147.00 - $137,949.00DC Remote Office (DC99)