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