Senior Communications Project Management Specialist

Gunnison is a consulting company focused on ambitious technology projects in the Washington, D.C. metro area. They are seeking a Senior Communications Project Management Specialist to serve as the primary point of contact for stakeholder communications and project management activities, particularly in cybersecurity. The role involves facilitating Scrum meetings, maintaining project schedules, and developing clear communications for various audiences.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as primary point of contact for stakeholder communications, coordination, and status updates
• Support ITSO cybersecurity communications, stakeholder coordination, and project management activities
• Conduct Scrum meetings, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
• Oversee and maintain Kanban/Scrum board activities, including task tracking, backlog updates, workflow management, and action item follow-up
• Develop clear communications for technical and non-technical audiences
• Draft, edit, and coordinate cybersecurity bulletins, presentations, newsletters, announcements, meeting materials, and executive-ready content
• Translate cybersecurity, risk, policy, compliance, and technical information into concise customer-facing communications
• Coordinate with ITSO leadership, cybersecurity SMEs, project teams, and AO stakeholders
• Support planning, tracking, and reporting for cybersecurity initiatives, awareness campaigns, governance activities, and recurring customer deliverables
• Maintain schedules, action items, risks, issues, decisions, meeting notes, and status updates
• Prepare briefing materials, status reports, dashboards, communications plans, and customer review packages
• Coordinate peer reviews, quality assurance reviews, and final deliverable checks prior to customer submission
• Support documentation management, quality control, process improvement, and knowledge transfer
• Facilitate meetings, capture outcomes, track follow-up actions, and support timely completion of deliverables
• Operate in a fast-paced federal consulting environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in communications, project management, program support, technical writing, or federal consulting support
• 5+ years supporting cybersecurity, IT, risk management, governance, compliance, or security awareness activities
• Experience serving as a primary point of contact for customer, stakeholder, or team communications
• Experience facilitating Scrum meetings, project meetings, working sessions, or recurring status meetings
• Experience managing Kanban, Scrum, or Agile task boards to track work, priorities, status, and deliverables
• Experience developing communications for technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience coordinating with cybersecurity SMEs, program managers, customer leadership, and cross-functional teams
• Experience supporting project schedules, status reporting, meeting facilitation, action item tracking, risks, issues, and deliverables
• Experience supporting peer reviews, quality assurance, document reviews, or deliverable quality control
• Strong writing, editing, briefing, and quality-control skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and Teams
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and stakeholder expectations independently
• PMP
• CompTIA Security+ or comparable foundational cybersecurity certification
• Bachelor's degree in Communications, English, Journalism, Business, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field
• Additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree
• Prior AOUSC, federal judiciary, federal civilian, or government consulting experience
• Familiarity with cybersecurity governance, risk management, security policy, security awareness, vulnerability management, incident response communications, or compliance programs
• Familiarity with NIST, FISMA, RMF, cybersecurity controls, security assessments, or federal security documentation
• Experience supporting executive-level briefings, customer-facing status reports, communications plans, or change management activities
• Experience with SharePoint, Power BI, Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, BMC Helix, or similar collaboration/reporting tools
• Certified ScrumMaster, Professional Scrum Master, or SAFe Scrum Master
• ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity, SSCP, GIAC GISF, or ISACA Cybersecurity Fundamentals
• ITIL Foundation