External Stakeholder Lead - Senior

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 External Stakeholder Lead to lead external stakeholder engagement and partner coordination under the Military Community and Family Policy (MC&FP) Outreach and Digital Enterprise Services (MODES) contract. You will support community and public engagement objectives, strengthen stakeholder understanding and trust, and help align external engagement, messaging, feedback, and reputational risk management with MC&FP priorities. Responsibilities: Lead engagement and coordination with external stakeholders, partners, policy-focused organizations, advocacy groups, and community-facing organizations to support MC&FP objectives. Serve as the primary coordination point for external stakeholder engagement, ensuring continuity, alignment, and timely communication across functional teams. Develop and implement stakeholder engagement plans aligned with MC&FP priorities, external affairs strategy, public engagement objectives, and brand reputation needs. Build and manage relationships with national, regional, state, local, and targeted organizations that influence policy dialogue, public perception, and community trust. Represent MC&FP in stakeholder meetings, coalition forums, working groups, and public-facing engagements to build goodwill, promote collaboration, and shape policy dialogue. Capture, assess, and analyze external feedback to inform planning, messaging, engagement approaches, reputational risk awareness, and senior leadership updates. Draft, review, and coordinate stakeholder materials, briefings, talking points, engagement summaries, and public-facing support products. Lead…