- Location
- Bethesda, MD
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Marketing
- Education
- Master
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- ApplyToJob
Description
Job Title: Public Relations Specialist (On-Site)
Location: Bethesda, MD
Company: BLN24
About Us: We find strength in teamwork-a better you is a better us
BLN24 is an award-winning Management Consulting Firm that supports the U.S. Federal Government in successfully achieving their mission and goals. Our service and solutions delivery start with understanding each client’s end-state, and then seamlessly integrating within each Agency’s organization to improve and enhance strategic and technical operations and deployments.
Position Overview:
BLN24 is seeking a Public Relations Specialist to lead strategic communications, media relations, audience engagement, and high-impact communications projects supporting WRNMMC, the NCR, and DHA. The position combines public affairs, writing, project management, media engagement, digital communications, and crisis-response responsibilities.
Primary Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications
What BLN24 brings to the Game:
BLN24 benefits are game changing. We like our team to play hard and that means they need to be taken care of — physically, financially, and emotionally. We make sure to keep them in the game by giving them access to generous medical, dental, and vision plans.
Location: Bethesda, MD
Company: BLN24
About Us: We find strength in teamwork-a better you is a better us
BLN24 is an award-winning Management Consulting Firm that supports the U.S. Federal Government in successfully achieving their mission and goals. Our service and solutions delivery start with understanding each client’s end-state, and then seamlessly integrating within each Agency’s organization to improve and enhance strategic and technical operations and deployments.
Position Overview:
BLN24 is seeking a Public Relations Specialist to lead strategic communications, media relations, audience engagement, and high-impact communications projects supporting WRNMMC, the NCR, and DHA. The position combines public affairs, writing, project management, media engagement, digital communications, and crisis-response responsibilities.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute public-affairs strategies supporting WRNMMC’s mission, services, and initiatives.
- Write and edit press releases, talking points, newsletters, speeches, briefings, web content, and social media products.
- Respond to media inquiries, coordinate interviews, arrange media visits, and maintain media relationships.
- Develop internal and external messaging for patients, staff, leaders, partners, and the public.
- Monitor media coverage and assess public-affairs and campaign effectiveness.
- Plan press conferences, media briefings, community events, and engagement activities.
- Support crisis communications and time-sensitive issues that may receive national, congressional, or public attention.
- Update internal and external websites and social media channels.
- Participate in WRNMMC, NCR, MTF, and DHA communications meetings.
- Develop communications plans, operations plans, community-relations plans, and measurable outreach activities.
- Coordinate message dissemination with DHA, MTF, federal, military, veteran, healthcare, and community stakeholders.
- Provide strategic counsel to senior leaders.
- Maintain issue logs, trackers, weekly reporting, and editorial ideas.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Project Management, or a related field.
- At least five years of public affairs, public relations, project management, or combined experience.
- Strong written and oral communications skills.
- Experience tailoring information for diverse internal and external audiences.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects in a high-tempo environment.
- Experience with project-management and digital-communications tools.
- Strong stakeholder, interview, media-relations, and consensus-building skills.
- Healthcare-system or military-communications familiarity is highly desirable.
- Preferred Qualification
- Project Management Professional certification.
What BLN24 brings to the Game:
BLN24 benefits are game changing. We like our team to play hard and that means they need to be taken care of — physically, financially, and emotionally. We make sure to keep them in the game by giving them access to generous medical, dental, and vision plans.
- You can join one of the fastest growing companies headquartered in the Washington DC Metro Area. We give you the opportunity to work in different sectors, so you have the chance at variety while maintaining stability.
- Flexibility at BLN24 allows each individual the opportunity to balance quality work and their personal lives. Depending on projects, we allow remote working opportunities so you can always be in the game no matter where you call home.
Skills
Project Management