Initiative Lead
Level: Senior | Work Location: Remote
⚠ This position is contingent upon contract award.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Red Carrot is seeking a Senior Initiative Lead to serve as key personnel on a federal information literacy initiative. This role directs overall project strategy and delivery across website content, taskforce coordination, communications, and project coordination work streams, and serves as the primary liaison to the customer's program leadership and steering committee.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Level: Senior | Work Location: Remote
⚠ This position is contingent upon contract award.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Red Carrot is seeking a Senior Initiative Lead to serve as key personnel on a federal information literacy initiative. This role directs overall project strategy and delivery across website content, taskforce coordination, communications, and project coordination work streams, and serves as the primary liaison to the customer's program leadership and steering committee.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Direct overall strategy and delivery across all work streams of the initiative, including website content, taskforce coordination, communications, and project coordination
- Serve as the primary point of contact with the customer's program leadership and steering committee on project status, risks, and priorities
- Lead development of the project's communication and evaluation plans, including quarterly evaluation reports and briefings
- Guide community engagement strategy with museums, libraries, community-based organizations, and their partners
- Lead development of persuasive, high-quality slide decks and presentations for professional and political audiences
- Oversee coordination with subject matter experts and the federal taskforce to identify and vet content and priorities
- Ensure all deliverables meet quality, accessibility, and style standards prior to submission
- Supervise and provide direction to project support and coordination staff
- Demonstrated experience engaging museums, libraries, and community-based organizations, including how they partner with other organizations
- Demonstrated experience with lifelong learning programming, including engaging marginalized groups or audiences skeptical of nonprofits and public institutions
- Demonstrated skill developing powerful, persuasive slide decks that represent quantitative, qualitative, and process information
- Experience in information, media, or digital literacy research or strategy preferred
- Background in social science (e.g., sociology, education, cultural competence) or qualitative research methodologies preferred
- Minimum 3+ years of experience managing similar projects
3+ years managing similar projects; experience engaging museums, libraries, and community organizations; lifelong learning programming; persuasive presentations; literacy research or strategy preferred.
Key Responsibilities
- directing strategy
- coordinating taskforces
- supervising staff
Skills & Tools
Microsoft PowerPoint
Job Details
- Category: Project and Program Management
- Seniority: Mid Level
- Commitment: Full Time
- Workplace: Remote — United States
- Languages: English
About Red Carrot
A modern strategic communications agency delivering measurable results through communications, creative, marketing, events, consulting, and research services. — Industry: Consulting Services