Content Management Strategist

About Aretum

Aretum is a mission-driven organization committed to delivering innovative, technology-enabled solutions to our customers across defense, civilian, and homeland security sectors. Our teams work at the intersection of strategy, technology, and transformation, helping agencies solve their most critical challenges. We believe in investing in our people and creating a culture where collaboration, inclusion, and professional growth are at the forefront.

The Role

Aretum is seeking a skilled and motivated Content Management Strategist. As a Content Management Strategist you will utilize your knowledge and expertise with Drupal, HTML, CSS, Federal Plain Language and accessibility to enhance the capabilities of the client's website, as well as update content, features, policies and guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Researches complex program, policy, grants, and technical subjects and translates findings into clear, accurate, audience-centered web content.
• Writes, edits, and revises digital content using Federal Plain Language principles, approved style guidance, and web-writing best practices.
• Coordinates content reviews with program offices, subject-matter experts, legal, privacy, communications, and technical stakeholders.
• Develops page outlines, content briefs, key messages, calls to action, FAQs, summaries, and supporting digital communications.
• Manages content from intake through drafting, review, approval, publishing, post-publication validation, and scheduled maintenance.
• Publishes or supports publication of content in Drupal or comparable enterprise CMS platforms.
• Develops and maintains content-governance frameworks, editorial procedures, style guides, publishing standards, templates, checklists, and job aids.
• Establishes repeatable processes for content intake, prioritization, drafting, review, approval, publication, archiving, and periodic review.
• Standardizes naming conventions, document practices, link standards, content types, page structures, and reusable content patterns.
• Conducts governance reviews to identify duplicate, outdated, inconsistent, inaccessible, or low-value content.
• Develops training and onboarding materials that help program staff follow content-management and publishing standards.
• Creates, updates, and organizes SharePoint pages, document libraries, lists, links, metadata, navigation, and internal communications.
• Applies Microsoft 365 versioning, document-management, metadata, permissions, and content-lifecycle practices.
• Ensures SharePoint content matches approved source materials and is current, accurate, accessible, and appropriately permissioned.
• Maintains controlled copies of SOPs, templates, inventories, decision records, and project documentation in Government-designated repositories.
• Supports migration, cleanup, restructuring, and archiving of SharePoint content and documents.
• Develops and maintains SOPs, process guides, editorial checklists, workflow diagrams, content inventories, templates, training materials, and user guides.
• Produces clear documentation for both technical and nontechnical audiences.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, digital media/media studies, or other relevant business disciplines.
• Strong experience with Drupal CMS, content management workflow, and web publishing.
• Experience with Microsoft and Office 365 platforms and services.
• Experience with basic web coding languages (e.g. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.).
• Experience writing for the web.
• Familiarity with Federal Plain Language Guidelines.
• Knowledge of web best practices and accessibility and compliance regulations.
• Experience participating on project teams and working across organizational teams.
• Strong communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of grant-making organizations or federal grants process.