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Official communication will come from an email address ending in @bixal.com or from @bixal.na.teamtailor-mail.com. Messages from other sources may be fraudulent, and you should exercise care to avoid any links or attachments included.\nBixal will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.\nNeed Assistance or a Reasonable Accommodation?\n If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, we're here to help. Please reach out to us at  and let us know how we can support you. You do not need to share personal details or disclose the nature of your request. You can expect a response from a team member within 24 hours during the regular work week and on the next operating day during the weekend or holidays.\nWhy Bixal?\nBixal is a consulting company headquartered in Fairfax, VA, working alongside governments and organizations to help them deliver better services and experiences to the communities they serve. Using evidence-based knowledge and technology, Bixal empowers clients to deliver on their missions more effectively by fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.\nOur values:\nPeople-First: Emphasizing the importance of people in all aspects of work.\n\nCollaboration and Transparency: Valuing teamwork and open communication.\n\nGrowth Mindset: Encouraging innovation and continuous improvement.\n\nCreating Lasting Impact: Focusing on meaningful outcomes and positive change.\n\nAbout the role:\nBixal is seeking a Senior Content Strategist for a project that supports the development, operation, and continuous improvement of a federal health agency’s open data platform. The platform hosts more than 170 public data products - datasets, interactive tools, and dashboards - contributed by offices across the agency and used by hundreds of thousands of people each month, from first-time visitors to seasoned analysts and data experts. The program’s mission is to make the agency’s public data easy to discover, access, and use, and to consolidate a fragmented data web presence into a single, coherent destination that meets federal accessibility, security, and data governance standards.\nThe Senior Content Strategist owns the platform’s content strategy, taxonomy, and editorial governance. This is a senior, largely autonomous Key Personnel role responsible for setting content guidelines and standards, planning and evolving the site’s taxonomy and information architecture, and leading the content side of migrating and consolidating other agency data websites onto the platform - while advising Government stakeholders, data owners, and design, research, and development teams on how to make complex data understandable for every type of user.\nThis is a full-time position contingent on contract award by our client, with a defined performance period of one base period and four optional years.This role offers you a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on a project that aligns with Bixal’s mission of delivering innovative, human-centered solutions. While the role has a fixed duration, we are committed to transparency and collaboration, keeping you informed about contract updates and new opportunities. At Bixal, we support your professional journey, ensuring your experience reflects our inclusive, purpose-driven culture and prepares you for future success.\nLocation\nThis role can work remotely from anywhere in the USA, with occasional travel to the client’s headquarters in Baltimore, MD. You must be legally authorized to work in the US. Bixal does not provide visa sponsorship.\nCompensation:\nThe salary range for this role is $100,000 - $110,000. In the spirit of transparency, most offers tend to land near the midpoint of the range. We make compensation decisions thoughtfully, considering your experience, the skills you bring, and our commitment to internal equity. Fairness and transparency are core to how we operate.\nResponsibilities:\nOwn the platform’s content strategy, aligning it with program objectives, quarterly OKRs, and the product roadmap.\n\nDevelop and maintain content guidelines, style standards, and editorial workflows that keep content consistent across multiple contributing agency offices.\n\nLead a cohesive data and content governance approach, including standard guides, guided authoring steps, and role-based publishing workflows in Drupal.\n\nMaintain and evolve the site structure, taxonomy, and metadata so users can quickly find the data they need, including consistent naming conventions across data products.\n\nPartner with developers and web analytics staff to improve search relevance and findability, using data from tools such as Adobe Analytics and Google Search Console.\n\nApply open data metadata standards (e.g., DCAT-US) to dataset pages and supporting content.\n\nPlan and lead content migration from other agency data websites onto the platform, including content inventories, audits, content mapping, and redirect planning.\n\nContribute the content, taxonomy, and information architecture approach to the program’s data website consolidation strategy, and guide its execution once approved.\n\nEnsure every new data page launches with complete supporting documentation, including plain-language descriptions, methodology documents, and data dictionaries.\n\nCoach data owners across the agency on content standards and review their submissions before public release, supporting at least 10 new data product releases per year.\n\nContribute to help desk FAQs, user guides, release notes, and other user-facing communications.\n\nUse user research, help desk trends, and analytics to identify content gaps and translate findings into user stories with clear acceptance criteria.\n\nParticipate in sprint ceremonies, Program Increment planning, demos, and retrospectives, and keep content standards current in Confluence.\n\nEnsure all content meets Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 AA requirements and maintain human oversight of any AI-assisted content.\n\nOther relevant duties as assigned and qualified/trained to perform\n\nQualifications:\nBA in Communications, English, Information Science, Library Science, Journalism, or a related field.\n\nAt least 10 years of experience in content strategy.\n\nAt least 5 years of experience creating content guidelines and taxonomy planning for public-facing data websites.\n\nExperience with federal content migration projects.\n\nExperience working in agile delivery teams, using tools such as Jira and Confluence.\n\nStrong plain-language writing and editing skills for audiences with very different levels of data fluency.\n\nWorking knowledge of accessibility standards (Section 508/WCAG 2.1 AA) for web content and documents.\n\nThis position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a favorable Public Trust determination in support of a federal government contract.\n\nNice to Have Skills and Experience:\nExperience with federal health programs or health data.\n\nExperience consolidating multiple websites into a single platform.\n\nFamiliarity with open data metadata standards such as DCAT-US 1.1, and with data dictionaries and methodology documentation.\n\nExperience authoring and governing content in Drupal.\n\nFamiliarity with the U.S. Web Design System, agency design systems, and the Digital Services Playbook.\n\nExperience working alongside user researchers, including on studies subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act.\n\nMaster’s degree in a related field.\n\nHow We Support Our Team:\nFlex hours\n\n401K with matching incentive\n\nParental Leave\n\nMedical/dental/vision benefits\n\nFlex Spending Account\n\nCompany provided short-term disability and life insurance\n\nCommuter benefits\n\nPaid Time Off (PTO)\n\n11 Paid holidays\n\nOur company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all individuals and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local anti-discrimination laws. 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