Strategic Communication Lead

TekWissen • Taylor, TX

21h • Hybrid

About The Position

This is a senior, individual-contributor engagement supporting the Client’s Market Intelligence & Strategy team. The contractor will build enduring strategic communication standards, including style guides, templates, and visual storytelling practices, using the Client’s existing templates and branding guidelines as a foundation. The role focuses on strategic communication and visual storytelling rather than technical modeling or engineering, and has no supervisory or external stakeholder engagement responsibilities. The standards will apply to materials that may be external-facing, such as Board materials, Client reports, and public presentations; the contractor may review or produce those deliverables in that context.

This is a build-and-transfer engagement intended to establish durable standards and practices that Client staff can apply and sustain after the engagement ends, rather than a permanent operating role. Responsibilities include developing writing and data-presentation guidance, templates, and training materials; delivering in-person training and coaching; reviewing team deliverables before publication; and contributing to select external-facing materials as requested.

Requirements

• Strong writing, editing, and visual storytelling skills, including chart, table, and graphic design informed by recognized data-visualization best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to develop style guides, templates, and communication standards for an organization or team.
• Strong training and coaching skills, including the ability to provide feedback that improves individual and team output.
• Ability to adapt communication standards to a technical, data-driven environment.
• Experience with, or ability to work within, existing brand and template systems rather than starting from a blank page.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in strategic communications, technical writing, or visual/graphic design.
• Experience in the power sector or another technical or regulated industry.
• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Technical Writing, Graphic Design, or a related discipline, or equivalent knowledge gained through a combination of education and experience.

Nice To Haves

• 10 or more years of relevant experience in strategic communications, technical writing, or visual/graphic design.

Responsibilities

• Develop a written style guide covering writing best practices for Client Market Intelligence & Strategy communications.
• Develop presentation and report templates based on existing Client templates and branding guidelines.
• Develop guidelines and best practices for presenting data, informed by industry best practices such as Tufte principles and Client brand standards.
• Develop training materials on visual storytelling techniques, including chart, table, and graphic design.
• Deliver in-person training to the team as a whole and to individual team members.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on communication standards and provide ongoing guidance to team members.
• Review reports, presentations, and related team deliverables against established communication standards before publication.
• Provide feedback to individual contributors to improve deliverable quality and reinforce adoption of standards.
• Produce or directly contribute to selected external-facing deliverables, such as Board materials, Client reports, and public presentation materials, as requested.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior