Vice President for Strategic Advocacy

Peraton Overview

With a mission to protect and promote freedom around the world, Peraton 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, Peraton delivers trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, Peraton employees “do the can’t be done,” solving the most daunting challenges facing their customers.

Key Facts:

Headquarters:            Herndon, VA

Revenue:                   $7B

Employees:                18,000

Locations:                  158

Prime Contracts:         90%

Peraton serves the following key markets:

• Space: Peraton provides solutions for space protection and resiliency, flight dynamics, orbital determination, Earth observation, weather, intelligence processing, advanced sensors and payloads, ground processing, information analytics, space platform defensive cyber operations, and telemetry, tracking and control systems.
• Intelligence: Peraton provides critical mission operations support, mission management capabilities, and engineering services in support of the Intelligence Community and its critical missions.
• Cyber: Peraton delivers robust cyber solutions and services, enabling their customers to secure their digital domain. Peraton’s solutions support defensive and offensive capability needs and their services include 24x7x365 protection of our nation’s most critical networks and data systems. Peraton’s approach to providing comprehensive cyber mission capabilities is underpinned by their information management and analytics technologies, which collect and disseminate time-sensitive intelligence to counter adversarial threats at the speed of the need.
• Defense: Peraton provides strategic solutions for platforms and missions across air, land, and sea domains, specifically in nuclear re-entry systems, threat modeling and simulation, test and instrumentation range integration, early-warning and long-range detection systems, aircraft and naval avionics and propulsion, logistics, and advanced unmanned maritime and ground systems.
• Homeland Security: Peraton provides critical technology integration and mission support services to protect the homeland and advance the national security priorities of the nation through systems that prevent terrorism, secure the borders, support domestic law enforcement, safeguard aviation, enable commerce, and partner with other government agencies and partner nations for intelligence collection and dissemination.
• Civil: Peraton shares their customers’ commitment to provide security and protection to our federal agencies by delivering comprehensive, secure solutions and insightful applied analytics that are focused on bringing the value of performance to complex environments, ensuring successful mission outcomes.
• Health: Peraton enables customers to be more efficient through solutions that reduce fraud, waste and abuse; improve data analytics; and provide better user experiences. From cloud capability to user experience prioritization, Peraton’s ability to effectively and intuitively distribute data to our customers results in high mission performance and ensures end-user satisfaction.

Through a series of acquisitions, as well as organic growth, Peraton grew in 2021 to become the nation’s largest mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider. The new Peraton is: Fearless. Agile. Scalable. Interconnected.

The Washington Post named Peraton a “Top Place to Work” in 2021 and by Forbes as one of America’s Best Employers in Virginia in 2020.

For additional information, please visit www.peraton.com.

Responsibilities

In this newly created role, the Vice President, Strategic Advocacy will report to the Senior Vice President, Government and Customer Relations and will be responsible for the development, direction, and management of Peraton’s external engagement strategies with think tanks, FFRDC’s, advocacy organizations, influencers, and experts, leading outreach, engagement, and strategic messaging on priority issues.

• Partner with company leadership and business sector leads to identify, develop, and manage opportunities for, and assist with narrative development of, related messaging to tell the Peraton story, ultimately for use with and through third parties, government partners, and media outlets.
• Develop and maintain a robust internal synchronization forum that facilitates high-volume, high-quality, strategically framed interactions between third parties and all Peraton internal organizations. Meet regularly with Peraton business leadership to collaborate on priorities and provide advice and recommendations on how the Government and Customer Relations function can assist with their set priorities and objectives via strategic advocacy pathways.
• In coordination with all of Peraton, create and maintain a comprehensive third party outreach database. Partner with Marketing, Communications, Strategy, and business growth leads to ensure this critical audience remains informed, in tailored fashion, in ways that support Peraton strategic messaging. ensuring the outreach audience remains informed, in tailored fashion, in ways that support Peraton strategic messaging.
• Lead Peraton efforts to develop and continually refine strategic advocacy opportunities to advance the corporate strategy, shaping the strategic environment to the left of requirements.
• Build and manage an annual “think tank” budget for review and approval.
• Sustain, develop, and grow the inventory of engagement special tools.
• Ensure Govt and Customer Relations is synchronized with strategy and marketing and communications to optimize strategic campaign execution.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to excel in strategic engagement and advocacy.
• 12 years of experience with public policy, strategic planning and implementation, leading people, defining strategy, establishing client relationships, and delivering innovative solutions.
• Extensive relationships with Department of Defense, think tanks, and political experts.
• Executive communications experience with emphasis on writing and analysis.
• Experience managing diverse teams and budgets.
• Experience establishing effective organizational brand visibility with key decision makers.
• Experience driving government affairs communications with key elected officials, regulators, agencies, trade associations, and other influential individuals and groups.
• Ability to comprehend technology and recognize and assess the impact of related government policies.
• Advanced understanding of DoD and the defense industry.
• Sophisticated understanding and extensive relationships with think tank and policy community.
• Team player orientation and management absolutely necessary.
• Ability to obtain a security clearance.
• BA or BS degree.

Desired Qualifications:

• Creative, out-of-the box problem solver and idea generator.
• Ability to display sound judgment, decision making, and political insight with the highest ethical standards.
• Possession of excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Possession of excellent presentation and leadership skills.
• Top Secret clearance preferred.