Initiative Support Specialist
Location: Remote / Washington, DC (occasional onsite support required)
Work Authorization: US Citizen
Experience: 5+ years
Position Overview
We are seeking an Initiative Support Specialist to provide research, operational, communications, and content-
development support for a federal Information Literacy Initiative.
The successful candidate will assist with research and environmental scans, stakeholder engagement, digital
content development, communications, documentation, and coordination with Taskforce members and subject-
matter experts (SMEs).
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct environmental scans, literature reviews, and resource evaluations related to emerging
information literacy priorities.
- Assist with development of governance plans, website wireframes, mockups, and content change
requests.
- Coordinate outreach and communications with Taskforce members, SMEs, and other stakeholders.
- Prepare referral forms, guidance materials, communications, and supporting documentation.
- Draft email outreach, communications materials, and updates for technical assistance resources.
- Support development of videos, toolkits, social media campaigns, and other public-awareness materials.
- Maintain organized documentation for resource collections, Community Spotlights, and applicable
clearance processes.
- Contribute to monthly status reporting and quarterly evaluation reporting.
- Assist with qualitative research and content evaluation activities.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years of experience supporting similar projects.
- Experience supporting community-based organizations, libraries, museums, lifelong-learning programs,
or similar organizations.
- Experience conducting literature reviews, environmental scans, qualitative research, or content
evaluations.
- Experience supporting communications, public-awareness campaigns, or digital content development.
- Strong research, writing, organizational, and stakeholder-coordination skills.
- Ability to manage multiple assignments and deadlines in a collaborative environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Education or training in social science, education, qualitative research, communications, or a related
discipline.
- Experience with information literacy, media literacy, digital literacy, or public education initiatives.
- Experience supporting federal government or public-sector programs.
