Outreach Specialist

Peraton is seeking an experienced Outreach Specialist to support our customer onsite in McLean, Va to collaborate with federal, state, local, and other governmental partners to strengthen national security and homeland defense. The ideal candidate will have experience directly supporting the Intelligence Community. You understand the operational environment at a strategic level, and you consider and balance discrete perspectives to strengthen mission readiness. You oversee community-wide workshops, exercises, and simulations designed to enhance information collection capabilities, close knowledge gaps, and prepare all partners to respond to operational events. You establish and maintain excellent, collaborative working relationships with executive leaders, soliciting and incorporating feedback in a thoughtful, professional manner.

Required Qualifications

• Active, current TS/SCI with polygraph
• Minimum of 12 years relevant experience with BS/BA
• Demonstrated experience successfully working across organizational silos to support whole-of-government activities
• Experience planning, designing, developing, coordinating, and/or executing exercise events with a wide variety of audiences and ensuring results are reported in a timely manner
• Ability to confidently maintain oversight of community-wide exercise planning, delivery, and intended outcomes, and make exercise adjustment recommendations driven by mission, policy, or other business changes
• Excellent organizational and time management skills

Desired Qualifications

• Possess a background supporting national security objectives in an operational or analytical role
• Experience leading teams by participating in hiring and onboarding, driving individual and team performance, supporting growth and development, etc.

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.