Marketing & Communications Coordinator

The Health & Civil Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a marketing and communications coordinator to support our National Energy Technology Lab (NETL) program. NETL is a multi-disciplinary, scientific and technical-oriented national laboratory. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience helping NETL’s mission to drive innovation and deliver solutions for an environmentally sustainable and prosperous energy future. This important work involves ensuring affordable, abundant and reliable energy that drives a robust economy and national security; developing technologies to manage carbon across the full life cycle; and enabling environmental sustainability for all Americans.

As a core member of our team, you will support and execute a wide range of internal and external communications projects and programs.  And as a core member of NETL research projects, you will play a valuable part in supporting program-specific marketing and business development projects. The ideal candidate would have the skills and flexibility to be able to interface with and support multiple research projects and clients.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Generate communications content such as media plans and stories, website content, video content, etc. associated with technical research projects and products.  Communication content will include educational/workforce development media including training videos, webinars, and associated items.
• Assist in layout, editing, proofing, copywriting of a variety of documents such as reports, scripts, email communications
• Develop technical outreach, promotion, and stakeholder engagement products, spanning graphical, written, online, audio, webinar, and other media to translate technical research efforts
• Facilitate and oversee implementation of training and engagement related outreach efforts
• Maintain communications schedules
• Provide strategic creative direction; facilitate and execute material requests, printed or digital
• Develop internal and external communications strategies and materials
• Ensure that marketing and communications materials are developed in accordance with customer quality procedures and approval process
• Support website design/layout
• Work collaboratively with other marketing and communications staff
• Aggregate, measure, and report on key metrics that define success in marketing and communication efforts (e.g., open rates, reactions/likes, clicks, website traffic)
• Consult and provide suggestions on marketing and communication opportunities, trends, strategies, and areas of growth
• Support communication efforts leveraging existing audiences, data and engagement methods
• Complete administrative duties such as maintaining marketing and communications assets
• Ensure team deliverables to the client are of high quality and provided on time
• Prepare and administer routine correspondence, memoranda, and related documentation
• Execute process and system improvements by working with team and support staff as needed
• Coordinate multiple deliverables and assignments concurrently to meet deadlines

Required Education, Experience & Other:

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, advertising, or related field or bachelor’s degree in scientific discipline
• 2+ years’ experience in marketing, communications, public relations in a federal government setting
• 1+ years’ technical writing experience
• Must be able to meet the requirements for gaining access to work on the NETL systems
• U.S. Citizen
• Strong copywriting and proofreading skills
• Outstanding organizational skills, with high attention to detail
• Ability to multi-task and manage high project volume
• Experience writing and developing communications programs and materials for internal and external audiences
• Strong project management, analytical, and verbal/written communications skills
• Proficient in Microsoft SharePoint, Teams, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• This position requires extensive interface with all levels of the federal client and potential collaborative partners, so excellent and professional verbal and written communication skills are required.
• The complexity of information to be managed will require excellent organization and documentation skills; attention to detail is a must; and an ability to troubleshoot, resolve administrative problems, and quickly respond to inquiries
• Ability to check deliverables for consistency and standards
• General understanding of industry practices and standards

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience working in a university, national laboratory, or federal research and development environment
• High level of initiative, self-motivation, and resourcefulness
• Strong coordination skills while balancing multiple assignments
• Capable of prioritizing tasks while maintaining time management
• Experience with third-party email platforms (e.g., formatting, layout, best practices)
• Experience with content management platforms, systems, and processes
• Experience with consulting on marketing material design and layout

Salary Range for this position: $70K to $80K

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.