---
title: 'Digital Communications Specialist, U.S. Government Agency at Dexis'
canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/digital-communications-specialist-u-s-government-agency-dexis-washington-22kaj1z4cdxb'
type: 'job'
last_seen: '2026-09-09'
---

# Digital Communications Specialist, U.S. Government Agency at Dexis

- **Company:** Dexis
- **Location:** Washington District of Columbia, United States
- **Compensation:** $78k–$120k
- **Posted:** 2026-08-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://dexisonline.com/jobs/?gh_jid=4720787005

## Job description

Dexis is a dynamic professional services firm dedicated to partnering with government and community leaders both in the U.S. and internationally to achieve critical social outcomes in a rapidly changing world.

At Dexis, you will experience a corporate culture of inclusiveness, respect, fairness, and trust. You will be given the means and mentorship needed to succeed, and your creativity will be rewarded.

## About the Position

The Digital Communications Specialist supports a U.S. Government Agency. The Specialist operates within the Agency’s external communications function, which serves as the primary interface with the public and key stakeholders, including Congressional audiences.

In this role, the Specialist executes day-to-day digital communications across social media, web, and email platforms. The position focuses on content creation, campaign execution, performance monitoring, and digital engagement, while ensuring consistency with the Agency’s brand, messaging, and public transparency requirements.

This job is onsite 5 days per week with no exceptions for telework.

## Responsibilities

- Develop, write, and schedule engaging social media content aligned to brand voice and campaign goals.
- Support the planning and execution of integrated social media campaigns, including content calendars, asset coordination, and approvals.
- Partner with internal stakeholders to translate communications objectives into platform-appropriate messaging and content formats.
- Monitor social media channels daily for comments, messages, and
- Conduct social listening and trend monitoring to identify opportunities, risks, and emerging conversations relevant to the organization.
- Track and report on social media performance, providing insights and recommendations to optimize future content.
- Maintain and update website content within the Content Management System (CMS), including basic page edits, posting news updates, and ensuring content accuracy and consistency.
- Support website content governance by checking links, formatting, accessibility basics, and adherence to brand and editorial standards.
- Assist in building and deploying email marketing campaigns, including drafting copy, assembling templates, and segmenting lists as directed.
- Monitor email performance metrics and summarize results with suggested improvements for subject lines, content, and timing.
- Coordinate with design, video, and other partners to request and manage creative assets, ensuring deadlines and specs are met across channels.
- Maintain organized documentation (content calendars, campaign briefs, reporting dashboards, and standard operating procedures) to support efficient execution.

## Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in journalism, English, communications, or related field.
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in media relations, preferably in a communications or journalism role.
- Excellent grammar, spelling, and punctuation skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and meet tight deadlines.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to multitask. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- The contractor shall be a U.S. Citizen and have the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance or higher.

Below is the pay range aligned with this position. When developing a range, Dexis evaluates compensation holistically, triangulating between external market research, our budget for the position, and internal equity to arrive at a figure that is fair and competitive. Offers within this range will be based on an individual candidate's qualification, relevant education and experience, skills, performance, and organizational needs.

Dexis pay range for this role: $78,000—$120,000 USD

Dexis is on a mission to help solve today’s most pressing global political, social, and economic challenges and create a world where all people are safe and prosperous. As a Dexis employee, you will be challenged, empowered, and mentored. Our motto is “find a way or make a way” — that’s how Dexis goes “all in.” How will you?

If you are passionate about this opportunity, apply now!

Only those applicants who meet the above criteria will be contacted for interview.

Dexis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, pregnancy, disability, age, genetic information, military service, veteran status, ethnicity, citizenship, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, childbirth and related medical conditions, including lactation, or any other protected class under applicable law.

As part of a competitive benefits package for eligible employees, Dexis provides healthcare insurance in addition to other staff welfare benefits and perks.

## About Dexis

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Dexis is a mission-driven security analytics and professional services firm that helps U.S. Government agencies protect national security through data-driven analysis, operational support, and agile program implementation in high-risk environments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (growth-stage; partnered with CM Equity Partners in 2023)
- **Headquarters**: Arlington, Virginia, USA
- **Founded**: 2001
- **Founders**: Mihir Desai

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: National security, defense, international development, government services, security analytics
- **Target customers**: B2G – U.S. federal agencies including the Department of Defense, Department of State, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USAID, and Department of Labor
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Achieving U.S. national security goals in a complex world requires speed, precision, and insight. Dexis delivers mission-critical support and data-driven solutions that help federal agencies respond to evolving threats — at home and abroad.” [dexisonline.com](https://dexisonline.com/)

## Products & Services
Dexis offers professional services (not SaaS products). Major service lines:

- **Assessment, Monitoring & Evaluation (AM&E)**: Rigorous evaluations, performance monitoring, and impact assessments to help agencies understand program outcomes and refine strategies in complex security environments. [dexisonline.com/technical-areas](https://dexisonline.com/technical-areas/)
- **Technical Assistance & Advisory Support**: Embedded experts providing specialized knowledge in counter-drug, organized crime, border security, stabilization, and other areas. [dexisonline.com/technical-areas](https://dexisonline.com/technical-areas/)
- **Strategic Threat Analysis**: Actionable insights on regional security dynamics, hybrid threats, transnational organized crime, and risk assessments using geospatial analysis, OSINT, and scenario planning. [dexisonline.com/technical-areas](https://dexisonline.com/technical-areas/)
- **Performance Management**: Data collection, analysis, and knowledge management to improve U.S. government performance and organizational learning. [dexisonline.com/technical-areas](https://dexisonline.com/technical-areas/)
- **Field Operations**: Management of multi-country operations in high-risk environments, including staffing, logistics, and on-the-ground program execution. [dexisonline.com/technical-areas](https://dexisonline.com/technical-areas/)
- **Program Analytics & Delivery**: Data-driven program management that converts strategic plans into measurable mission results. [dexisonline.com/technical-areas](https://dexisonline.com/technical-areas/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total contract value reached **$1 billion** (three quarters of $1B) across 45 funded contracts/task orders and 30 contract vehicles as of 2024. CEO Mihir Desai manages over **$500 million in prime federal contracts** across 80 locations worldwide. [dexisonline.com/about-us](https://dexisonline.com/about-us/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: **CM Equity Partners** (New York-based investor in federal services companies) partnered with Dexis in 2023 to scale the federal civilian business. [dexisonline.com/about-us](https://dexisonline.com/about-us/)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Grew from a single founder to a team of hundreds, operating in over 75 countries in the last three years.
  - Won two major USAID prime awards in global health and cross-agency knowledge exchange (2022).
  - Added Department of Labor to client roster.
  - Named a Growth Engine Award national finalist (ACG Middle Market Growth Awards) in 2022.
  - Diversified into new clients (Defense Security Cooperation Agency, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation) in 2023.
  - Active job postings: 70 (as of mid-2024). [linkedin.com/company/dexis-consulting-group](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dexis-consulting-group)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep domain expertise** in national security, defense, and high-risk environments—founded by a former analyst/advisor who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other conflict zones.
- **Long-standing relationships** with key U.S. government agencies (DoD, State, USAID, CDC) and a track record of winning prime IDIQ contracts.
- **Agile, mission-focused culture** that enables rapid response to emerging priorities in fragile and complex settings.
- **Data-driven approach** to security analytics, blending quantitative/qualitative methods with on-the-ground operational support.
- **Scaled infrastructure** with ISO 9001:2015 certification and a quality management system.

## Strategic Focus
- **Dexis Vision 2030**: To become a middle-market, diversified professional services firm, scaling the federal civilian business through the partnership with CM Equity Partners.
- **Diversification**: Expanding beyond traditional defense and development into new client agencies (e.g., Department of Labor, Defense Security Cooperation Agency) and new service areas (e.g., global health security).
- **Operational excellence**: Consolidating acquired subsidiaries (Checchi, Agland) and building a unified People & Culture function to support post-pandemic workforce needs.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Can-do mindset, where curiosity and ingenuity are celebrated, all while making a positive impact in the world.” [dexisonline.com/careers](https://dexisonline.com/careers/)
- **Work flexibility**: Hybrid and remote opportunities in the U.S., flexible work schedules. [dexisonline.com/careers](https://dexisonline.com/careers/)
- **Benefits**: Competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, professional development funds, wellness reimbursement, charitable contributions match, referral bonuses. [dexisonline.com/careers](https://dexisonline.com/careers/)
- **Learning & community**: Weekly learning events, quarterly company-wide learning exchanges, communities of learning and engagement, random coffee chat pairings, monthly social events, annual summer and winter parties. [dexisonline.com/careers](https://dexisonline.com/careers/)
- **Impact**: Employees work on high-stakes national security missions that directly protect Americans at home and abroad.
- **Office**: New custom-built HQ in Arlington, VA with collaboration spaces and huddle rooms (relocated 2024). [dexisonline.com/about-us](https://dexisonline.com/about-us/)

## Sources
1. [dexisonline.com](https://dexisonline.com/)
2. [dexisonline.com/about-us](https://dexisonline.com/about-us/)
3. [dexisonline.com/careers](https://dexisonline.com/careers/)
4. [dexisonline.com/technical-areas](https://dexisonline.com/technical-areas/)
5. [linkedin.com/company/dexis-consulting-group](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dexis-consulting-group)
6. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/dexisconsultinggroup](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/dexisconsultinggroup)

## Other roles at Dexis

- [Program Manager, Defense Innovation](https://feeny.ai/job/program-manager-defense-innovation-dexis-california-9ht3he59k2yq) — California
- [Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, Team Lead - Metrics](https://feeny.ai/job/monitoring-and-evaluation-specialist-team-lead-metrics-dexis-washington-esgvvfp43906) — Washington District of Columbia, United States
- [Senior Malaria Advisor, DOS LEAP Global - Madagascar](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-malaria-advisor-dos-leap-global-madagascar-dexis-madagascar-vya2d9n069bj) — Madagascar
- [Call for CVs - Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Analysts](https://feeny.ai/job/call-for-cvs-foreign-military-sales-fms-analysts-dexis-washington-district-of-2rbf2jnaerpv) — Washington District of Columbia, United States
- [Senior Malaria Advisor, DOS LEAP Global - Kenya](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-malaria-advisor-dos-leap-global-kenya-dexis-kenya-2bc4zjmf8xcx) — Kenya
- [Project Attorney, DFC](https://feeny.ai/job/project-attorney-dfc-dexis-washington-district-of-columbia-tsd0swyp4fxw) — Washington District of Columbia, United States
- [Proposal Graphics Consultant](https://feeny.ai/job/proposal-graphics-consultant-dexis-remote-wye8caawcbcm)
- [Research Associate, Threat Reduction](https://feeny.ai/job/research-associate-threat-reduction-dexis-washington-district-of-columbia-0hkgjw7cgew2) — Washington District of Columbia, United States
- [Senior Global Health Security (GHS) Advisor, DOS LEAP Global - Morocco](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-global-health-security-ghs-advisor-dos-leap-global-morocco-dexis-morocco-t94r3c508pp4) — Morocco
- [Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor – Global Health Security (GHS), DOS LEAP Global - Zambia](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-monitoring-and-evaluation-advisor-global-health-security-ghs-dos-leap-z8kxsw0y4m78) — Zambia