This position is located at the Clement J. Zablocki Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI and is organizationally aligned under the Communications Division. The position will work within the Graphic Media and Audio Visual department and report directly to the Supervisory Communications Specialist. The primary purpose of this position is to manage and design content for the Medical Center's intranet sites.

Duties

***THIS IS NOT A VIRTUAL POSITION, YOU MUST LIVE WITHIN OR BE WILLING TO RELOCATE WITHIN A COMMUTABLE DISTANCE OF THE DUTY LOCATION*** Duties include, but not be limited to the following: Provide oversight and management of the Medical Center's intranet site. Ensure compliance with intranet content policies and will ensure published information is valid and current. Work with web sponsors to manage web content, style, and quality. Determine size, color, use of graphics or photographs, typography and other elements to be incorporated and how it will be reproduced. Serve as a software expert for all graphics programs utilized in the Medical Media program. Develop creative ideas and concepts. Utilize a variety of desktop publishing software such as Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft Office Suite etc. Create graphics to use on internet/intranet, social media, internal television systems and elsewhere for communication needs. Prepare layouts of web pages, digital media. Completes other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required

Requirements

Qualifications

This position includes a Selective Placement Factor (skill, knowledge, ability or other worker characteristic basic to- and essential for- satisfactory performance of the job). Selective Placement Factors are a prerequisite to appointment and represent minimum requirements for a position. Applicants who do not meet it are ineligible for further consideration. The Selective Placement Factor for this position is: Do you possess experience formatting, organizing, and displaying textual and visual materials within internet, intranet and SharePoint sites? In addition, applicants must also possess at least one of the following minimum qualifications: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level in federal service that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specific qualifying specialized experience for this position (which should be documented on your resume) is: experience planning the preparation and use of photographs, illustrations, drawings, other artwork, charts, diagrams, dioramas, maps, slides, overlays, and other kinds of visual material for use in communicating information through visual means; managing digital or virtual communication resources; and creating/managing online SharePoint sites. NOTE TO APPLICANTS: Your answer will be verified against information provided on your resume. If your resume does not clearly support your response by addressing your work experience in detail you will be disqualified. OR EDUCATION SUBSTITUTION: Successful completion of a Ph.D., or an equivalent doctoral degree, or an LL.M., or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree. NOTE TO APPLICANTS: Your education must indicate major study in commercial art, fine arts, art history, industrial design, architecture, drafting, interior design, photography, visual communication, or other fields related to this position as a Visual Information Specialist. One year of full-time graduate education is considered to be the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent one year of full-time study; if that number cannot be obtained from the transcript, 18 semester hours will be considered as one full academic year of graduate study. (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED) OR COMBINATION: Possess a combination of education and experience as previously described to fully qualify for this position. (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED) You will be rated on the following Competencies as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position: Applies Technology to TasksCommunications and MediaProject ManagementSelf-Management IMPORTANT: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. All experience listed on your resume must include the month and year start/end dates. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

IMPORTANT: A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

NOTE: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address Clement J Zablocki Veterans Administration Medical Center 5000 West National Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53295 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]