Senior Speechwriter / Executive Communications Specialist

Overview

DecisionPoint Corporation is seeking an accomplished Senior Speechwriter / Executive Communications Specialist to support senior executive leadership within the Office of Military Community and Family Policy (MC&FP). The position will provide high-level speechwriting, executive messaging, briefing, and strategic communications support to the senior leaders as required.

The ideal candidate is an exceptional writer, researcher, and strategic communicator who can translate complex policy, programmatic, and operational issues into compelling, accessible executive communications. The candidate must be able to write authentically in the voice of individual senior leaders, adapting tone, structure, message, and delivery style to the executive, audience, venue, communications objective, and medium.

Experience supporting senior federal officials, political appointees, elected officials, senior military leaders, or other high-profile public figures is strongly preferred. Familiarity with the Department of War and the broad MC&FP military and family readiness portfolio is also highly desired.

This position is fully remote. 

Duties & Responsibilities

• Research, draft, edit, and coordinate speeches, keynote addresses, prepared remarks, talking points, executive messages, event packets, briefing books, speaker biographies, panel materials, video scripts, ceremonial remarks, introductions, and other executive-level communications.
• Develop communications that authentically capture the individual voice, leadership style, priorities, vocabulary, cadence, and perspective of the executive delivering them, rather than applying a single institutional writing style across leaders.
• Build and continuously refine executive voice profiles by reviewing previous speeches, interviews, correspondence, public appearances, policy priorities, and direct feedback from senior leaders and their staffs.
• Adapt executive communications for different delivery environments and mediums, including formal keynote addresses, senior-government engagements, conferences, webinars, panels, fireside chats, roundtables, town halls, military and family events, ceremonies, media appearances, recorded video, virtual engagements, internal workforce communications, and other public-facing or stakeholder events.
• Write specifically for spoken delivery, incorporating pacing, transitions, rhetorical structure, storytelling, emphasis, audience interaction, timing, and other elements necessary for effective live or recorded presentation.
• Prepare speaker biographies, executive briefing materials, event packets, and other materials necessary to prepare senior leaders for engagements.
• Work with event teams to understand agendas, audience composition, run-of-show requirements, event objectives, logistical considerations, and other contextual factors that should shape executive remarks.
• Translate complex Department of Defense policies, initiatives, research, data, and program information into clear, credible, audience-appropriate narratives without sacrificing policy accuracy or substantive nuance.
• Conduct substantive research to inform scripts, speeches, talking points, and briefing products, incorporating relevant policy context, mission priorities, program information, data, and organizational themes.
• Develop and maintain a strong working knowledge of the full breadth of the MC&FP mission and program portfolio, including military family readiness and support, spouse employment and economic opportunity, child and youth programs, special needs and exceptional family member support, military community support programs, advocacy and prevention programs, Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR), resale and quality-of-life programs, casualty and mortuary affairs, Military OneSource, and related initiatives.
• Connect individual speeches and executive engagements to the broader MC&FP mission, ensuring leadership communications reinforce strategic priorities and demonstrate how programs, policies, and initiatives contribute to military and family readiness.
• Support message alignment across executive engagements, communications products, organizational priorities, and approved messaging frameworks.
• Collaborate closely with communications strategists, content teams, policy experts, program leaders, public affairs professionals, event staff, and other stakeholders to develop, coordinate, and refine executive communications.
• Conduct executive interviews and engage subject-matter experts to identify compelling themes, stories, examples, data points, and policy messages appropriate for particular audiences and engagements.
• Anticipate audience interests, sensitivities, policy considerations, and potential areas of concern and incorporate them appropriately into executive materials.
• Develop briefing and preparation materials supporting audience questions, stakeholder interactions, panels, media engagements, and other unscripted portions of executive appearances.
• Ensure all materials are accurate, current, audience-appropriate, and consistent with organizational priorities, Department guidance, approved messaging, and applicable review and clearance requirements.
• Maintain organized repositories of approved speeches, remarks, talking points, executive biographies, messaging guidance, and other leadership communications to support consistency and future reuse.
• Manage document development, editorial workflows, version control, coordination, and rapid revision of executive communications involving multiple stakeholders and levels of review.
• Manage multiple concurrent executive writing assignments, including high-visibility products with compressed timelines, rapidly changing requirements, and multiple levels of review and clearance.

Qualifications

Clearance

• Active Secret security clearance or higher is required.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in English, Journalism, Communications, or a related field is required.

Experience

• Minimum five (5) years of professional experience writing speeches, talking points, executive remarks, or other executive-level communications.
• Demonstrated experience supporting leadership communications in government, nonprofit, corporate, public affairs, or similarly complex organizational environments.
• Demonstrated experience producing polished communications for senior executives or other public-facing leaders.
• Proven ability to write clearly, concisely, persuasively, and in an executive voice.
• Demonstrated ability to write in another person's voice and distinguish among the voices, styles, and communications preferences of multiple senior leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to tailor speeches and executive communications to substantially different audiences, venues, purposes, and delivery formats.

Technical Knowledge and Capabilities

• Exceptional research and synthesis skills, with demonstrated ability to translate complex policy, technical, programmatic, or organizational information into clear and accessible narratives.
• Proficiency in document development, editorial workflows, collaborative review processes, and version control.
• Strong understanding of communications best practices, message discipline, audience segmentation, narrative development, and executive communications.
• Demonstrated ability to research unfamiliar subject matter rapidly and produce accurate, credible executive-level communications.
• Ability to manage sensitive, high-visibility assignments and deliver polished products under short and sometimes unpredictable deadlines.
• Ability to work directly with senior leaders and their staffs, receive and rapidly incorporate executive-level feedback, and exercise exceptional judgment, discretion, responsiveness, and attention to detail.

Required Skills

• Exceptional writing, editing, research, and storytelling skills.
• Ability to transform complex information into concise, compelling, and memorable spoken communications.
• Ability to adapt tone, voice, narrative style, length, and format for diverse executives, audiences, events, and delivery mediums.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to factual and policy accuracy.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities and rapid-turn assignments simultaneously.
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills across executive leadership, communications, policy, program, public affairs, and event teams.
• Sound professional judgment and ability to handle sensitive information and high-visibility communications requirements with discretion.

Highly Desired / Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience supporting political appointees, elected officials, senior Department of Defense or federal government officials, general/flag officers, cabinet-level or sub-cabinet officials, or other senior public figures in a speechwriting or executive communications capacity.
• Demonstrated familiarity with MC&FP, Military OneSource, military quality-of-life policy, and the broader portfolio of programs and initiatives supporting service members, military families, survivors, and the military community.
• Experience communicating about multiple elements of the MC&FP portfolio rather than expertise limited to a single military family or quality-of-life program area.
• Experience writing for Department of Defense or other federal senior leadership.
• Experience developing speeches and executive communications addressing public policy, national security, military personnel and readiness, military families, quality of life, or related human-capital issues.
• Experience supporting senior leaders across a variety of communications settings, including keynote speeches, senior-government engagements, conferences, panels, town halls, ceremonies, stakeholder events, media appearances, webinars, and recorded or digital communications.
• Experience preparing event communications, executive briefing books, speaker packets, biographies, or formal messaging frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to build trusted working relationships with senior executives and become a reliable steward of an executive's individual voice.
• Familiarity with Department of Defense organizational structures, policy development, public affairs, executive correspondence, and communications review and clearance processes.
• Experience working in fast-paced government, political, military, campaign, public affairs, or executive communications environments where accuracy, discretion, responsiveness, message discipline, and organizational awareness are essential.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The strongest candidate will combine the capabilities of a speechwriter, policy communicator, researcher, and executive advisor. This individual will understand that successful executive speechwriting is not simply the production of polished prose. It requires understanding the leader, the audience, the setting, the policy environment, the communications objective, and the action or response the engagement is intended to produce.The successful candidate will be capable of moving seamlessly from a major policy address to remarks for military families, from a formal senior-government engagement to an informal fireside chat, and from a live keynote to a concise recorded message—while ensuring each product is optimized for its particular delivery format and sounds authentically like the executive delivering it.Just as importantly, the candidate will understand or quickly master the breadth and interconnectedness of the MC&FP portfolio and be able to communicate how its programs, policies, and initiatives collectively strengthen the readiness, resilience, and quality of life of service members, military families, and survivors.

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
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