Strategic Communications & Leadership Briefing Lead

Apogee Engineering • Wright Patterson AFB, OH

19h

About The Position

Apogee is seeking a Strategic Communications & Leadership Briefing Lead to provide executive-level communication and advocacy briefing support. The role translates complex acquisition, technical, and portfolio data into clear materials for senior Government and Service stakeholders. Its scope focuses on executive communications, advocacy briefings, and tasker response support, and excludes enterprise brand management, commercial marketing, and public engagement-effectiveness analytics.

This full-time position supports activities at WPAFB, Ohio, or Robins AFB, Georgia, with 10% travel. The role develops leadership materials, standardizes briefing products and messaging, coordinates responses to official requests, and aligns portfolio narratives across stakeholder engagements.

Requirements

• Active Secret clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in Communications, English, Public Relations, Political Science, or a related field.
• Minimum 8–10 years of experience in executive communications, strategic messaging, or advocacy support within DoD, military Service, or federal acquisition settings.
• Demonstrated experience producing executive-level briefings and written communications within a DoD or federal acquisition environment.
• Experience managing or coordinating official tasker responses.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and briefing production tools.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree.
• Prior direct support to a JPO, Program Executive Office (PEO), or Service-level front office.
• Experience preparing materials for congressional or OSD-level forums.
• Strong understanding of PNT/NAVWAR or related acquisition portfolio subject matter.
• Experience developing standardized communications products across multiple stakeholder organizations.

Responsibilities

• Synthesize complex acquisition strategies, technical baselines, and program milestones into executive decision briefs, read-aheads, white papers, and bullet papers.
• Develop and standardize briefing templates, visual aids, and messaging frameworks for leadership presentations at external and high-level DoD forums.
• Assist leadership in tracking, formulating, and coordinating responses to official taskers, congressional and Service inquiries, and stakeholder information requests.
• Align portfolio narrative materials across platform, Service, and Government partner engagements to ensure cohesive messaging.
• Produce senior-leader decision briefings, technical one-pagers, white papers, and tasker response packages.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior