Partner Coordinator Specialist

Aretum is seeking a Partner Coordinator Specialist to support stakeholder engagement and coordination activities within a Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) environment. The ideal candidate will combine a strong understanding of cybersecurity fundamentals with experience engaging state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) organizations, government entities, regional associations, and cybersecurity industry partners.

This position will serve as a trusted coordination and consulting resource, helping facilitate stakeholder relationships, manage initiatives and deliverables, and translate complex cybersecurity and program information into clear, executive-level communications.
Responsibilities:

- Build, maintain, and manage productive relationships with government, SLTT, regional, and cybersecurity industry stakeholders.

- Coordinate engagement activities and initiatives involving state and local governments, regional associations, and other external partners.

- Support DHS/CISA stakeholder engagement programs, processes, and mission priorities.

- Apply an understanding of cybersecurity fundamentals, policy, and industry practices to stakeholder coordination and program activities.

- Serve as a liaison among internal teams, government stakeholders, industry partners, and other participating organizations.

- Plan, coordinate, and track projects, stakeholder activities, deliverables, milestones, and action items.

- Develop high-quality written materials, including executive briefings, reports, presentations, meeting materials, correspondence, and other leadership-level deliverables.

- Translate technical, cybersecurity, policy, and programmatic information into clear communications tailored to executive and non-technical audiences.

- Facilitate meetings, working sessions, stakeholder discussions, and follow-up activities.

- Identify stakeholder needs, risks, dependencies, and emerging issues and provide recommendations to program leadership.

- Provide consulting and advisory support related to stakeholder engagement, cybersecurity initiatives, program coordination, and partnership development.

- Maintain appropriate documentation, status reporting, and stakeholder engagement records.

- Support additional program management and coordination activities as required.

Requirements

- Strong understanding of cybersecurity fundamentals from a technical, policy, or combined perspective.

- Experience working with state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) organizations , including state or municipal governments, regional associations, or similar public-sector organizations.

- Experience managing relationships with industry stakeholders and external partners .

- Experience working with cybersecurity industry partners or organizations.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with senior and executive-level stakeholders.

- Demonstrated experience developing executive-level deliverables , presentations, reports, briefings, and other professional written products.

- Experience coordinating and managing projects, deliverables, timelines, and competing priorities.

- Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, organization, and general management skills.

- Demonstrated consulting skills, including the ability to assess stakeholder needs, synthesize information, and provide actionable recommendations.

- Ability to work effectively across technical, policy, program, and executive stakeholder groups.

- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain DHS suitability.

- Excellent written, verbal, and executive communication skills.

- Strong relationship-building and stakeholder engagement capabilities.

- Ability to understand and communicate cybersecurity concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

- Strong project coordination and organizational skills.

- Ability to develop polished, concise, an