Barbaricum is a rapidly growing government contractor providing leading-edge support to federal customers, with a particular focus on Defense and National Security mission sets. We leverage more than 17 years of support to stakeholders across the federal government, with established and growing capabilities across Intelligence, Analytics, Engineering, Mission Support, and Communications disciplines. Founded in 2008, our mission is to transform the way our customers approach constantly changing and complex problem sets by bringing to bear the latest in technology and the highest caliber of talent. Headquartered in Washington, DC's historic Dupont Circle neighborhood, Barbaricum also has a corporate presence in Tampa, FL, Bedford, IN, and Dayton, OH, with team members across the United States and around the world. As a leader in our space, we partner with firms in the private sector, academic institutions, and industry associations with a goal of continually building our expertise and capabilities for the benefit of our employees and the customers we support. Through all of this, we have built a vibrant corporate culture diverse in expertise and perspectives with a focus on collaboration and innovation. Our teams are at the frontier of the Nation's most complex and rewarding challenges. Join our team. Barbaricum is seeking an experienced Senior Internal Stakeholder Lead to lead internal stakeholder engagement and coordination under the Military Community and Family Policy (MC&FP) Outreach and Digital Enterprise Services (MODES) contract. You will support collaboration, information sharing, feedback integration, and alignment across MC&FP and DoD stakeholders to ensure coordinated planning and effective execution across functional teams.. Responsibilities: * Lead engagement and coordination with internal MC&FP and DoD stakeholders to facilitate collaboration, information sharing, and alignment with organizational objectives. * Serve as the primary internal coordination point for stakeholder engagement, feedback capture, issue escalation, and integration of stakeholder inputs into planning and execution. * Develop and implement comprehensive internal stakeholder engagement strategies aligned with MC&FP's goals, priorities, and mission requirements. * Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior leaders, department heads, project managers, functional teams, and individual contributors across MC&FP and related DoD stakeholder groups. * Develop and execute communication plans to disseminate key messages, updates, decisions, and program information through appropriate internal channels. * Facilitate cross-functional collaboration among MC&FP teams to support knowledge sharing, operational alignment, and effective problem-solving. * Create mechanisms to collect, organize, and analyze internal stakeholder feedback, converting feedback into actionable insights and continuous improvement recommendations. * Work closely with directors, functional leads, and senior leaders to ensure consistent stakeholder engagement approaches, coordinated messaging, and alignment across initiatives. * Track stakeholder engagement activities, dependencies, risks, decisions, and action items to maintain visibility and support timely execution. * Prepare internal engagement materials, leadership updates, briefings, talking points, meeting summaries, and stakeholder communication products. * Elevate risks, issues, gaps, and stakeholder concerns to senior leadership with recommended mitigation actions and communication strategies. * Support continuity of operations by ensuring internal stakeholders receive timely information and remain aligned during planning, transition, execution, and issue response activities. Required Skills: * Strong knowledge of internal stakeholder engagement, organizational communications, change communication, strategic alignment, and cross-functional coordination within large organizations. * Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills, with the ability to engage, influence, and coordinate with stakeholders at all levels of an organization. * Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to tailor messages for executives, managers, technical teams, program personnel, and mission stakeholders. * Ability to develop and implement communication plans, stakeholder engagement strategies, internal messaging frameworks, and feedback collection mechanisms. * Strong facilitation skills, including the ability to lead meetings, working groups, stakeholder sessions, and cross-functional coordination forums. * Ability to synthesize stakeholder feedback, identify trends, develop actionable insights, and support data-informed decision-making. * Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, track dependencies, and elevate issues appropriately. * Ability to maintain professionalism, discretion, and sound judgment when handling sensitive internal communications, stakeholder concerns, and leadership-level issues. * Demonstrated ability to support collaboration, trust, information flow, and alignment across distributed teams and complex organizational environments. * Proficiency with common business, collaboration, presentation, and productivity tools used to develop stakeholder updates, briefings, reports, schedules, and communications products. Required Qualifications: * Master's degree in Business, Communications, Organizational Leadership, Public Administration, Management, Strategic Communication, or a related field is preferred. * 10+ years of experience in stakeholder engagement, internal communications, organizational communications, program coordination, change communication, or a related role, preferably within a large organization. * Experience engaging with senior executives, department heads, project managers, functional teams, and diverse internal stakeholder groups. * Demonstrated experience developing and implementing communication plans, internal engagement strategies, stakeholder updates, and organizational alignment approaches. * Experience collecting and analyzing stakeholder feedback, developing insights, and using data to support communication improvements and leadership decisions. * Experience supporting cross-functional teams, working groups, program coordination activities, and internal communication rhythms in complex or mission-focused environments. * Experience within a federal, defense, public-sector, nonprofit, or large enterprise environment is preferred. * DoD Secret Security Clearance. EEO Commitment All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

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