Basic Qualifications
To be effective, you will need to possess these basic qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, marketing or related field.
- Five+ years of experience in a communications role with strong writing and editing abilities – including AP style – and demonstrated stakeholder engagement skills.
Job Description
The mission matters. So do the people behind it. With advancing defense technology at our core, what sets us apart is a culture of collaboration, purpose, and impact.
What is the mission?
Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more— we can innovate, invest, inspire and integrate our capabilities to transform the future.
At Lockheed Martin Space, we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve. We’re creating future-ready solutions, focusing on resiliency and urgency through our 21st Century Security® vision.
What does this role look like?
This position is part of the Lockheed Martin Space Enterprise Communications team and will support Human Resources (HR) communications and the planning and execution of Employee Experience events across all U.S. Space sites. This communicator will be responsible for strategizing, creating and executing communications deliverables across various internal channels covering HR topics, and may support additional employee and functional communications priorities. This communicator will also manage and track utilization of the Experience budget in support of site-wide Experience events. Additionally, this new team member will partner with internal stakeholders and other communicators across the Lockheed Martin enterprise to achieve collective goals.
This Role Will Offer You The Following Daily Challenges
- Strategize, create and execute communications content across multiple channels including the employee intranet, digital signage, email, e-newsletters and more in alignment with the internal editorial calendar.
- Field content ideas and requests from HR stakeholders and assess alignment to strategy for content development consideration in partnership with HR Comms leader.
- Review requests to use the Employee Experience budget for strategic alignment to business objectives and approve or deny accordingly.
- Provide consult and frequent touchpoints with Experience POCs to ensure budget utilization and event execution in line with Communications guidelines and policies.
- Partner with Employee Experience team to ensure Experience POCs are provided Communications-approved deliverables in support of their events, creating deliverables as needed.
- Support other duties as assigned to help the integrated team meet its communications objectives.
Preferred
This position does not support teleworking; the preferred candidate will be located near one of our Lockheed Martin Space facilities in either:
Denver, CO , Titusville-Space Coast, FL, King of Prussia/Valley Forge, PA , Rocket City USA: Huntsville/Courtland AL ,
or
Sunnyvale, CA .
and be expected to work in the office as needed and as appropriate.
Desired Skills
To be effective, ideally, you should also have:
- Ability to help execute strategic communications plans that support business objectives.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships and collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, including executive management.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and work well under deadline pressure with employees at all levels.
- Enthusiastic, organized and results-oriented.
- Quick study with an attention to detail and a sense of urgency.
- A strong sense of follow-up and closure.
- Ability to manage multiple, widely varied assignments.
PLEASE NOTE-Other Important Information
- By applying to this role, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities, within Lockheed Martin, where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match.
- Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.
- Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
Benefits Of Employment
Our employees play an active role in strengthening the quality of life where we live and work by volunteering more than 850,000 hours annually.
Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s competitive and comprehensive benefits package here.
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Hiring Our Heroes
Joining Lockheed Martin Space means becoming part of a global network of passionate professionals dedicated to safety and shaping the future of defense capabilities
At Space we value your skills, training, and education. We believe that by applying the highest standards of business ethics and visionary thinking, everything is within our reach – and yours as a Lockheed Martin Space employee. …just to name a few reasons to join
Lockheed Martin Space, and experience your future!
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Other Important Information
By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.
Ability to work remotely
Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.
