Job opening: Public Affairs Specialist
Salary: $78 592 - 122 459 per year
Published at: Jul 28 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is part of the National Archives and Records Administration. Office of the Chief of Staff (S), Communications and Marketing Division (SC), Public and Media Communications. The incumbent serves as a Public Affairs Specialist and is responsible for researching, creating, writing, and disseminating sensitive, critical or complex information for external publics on a wide variety of subjects in support of NARA's mission - its programs, objectives and functions.
Duties
The following are the duties of this position at the GS-12. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties, and will receive training to help you grow in this position.
As a Public Affairs Specialist, you will:
Qualifications
You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
For the GS-12: You must have one year of specialized experience at the GS-11 grade level in the federal service or equivalent private sector, that is directly related to the position as listed above and which has equipped the candidate with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience for this position is defined as:
Researching, planning, implementing, and evaluating social media strategies and tactics for various social media platforms. AND
Managing social media accounts for an organization. Experience can include troubleshooting platform performance issues, working with platforms to resolve issues, reviewing terms of service agreements and working with agency counsel on their implementation, managing password security for a large user base, or providing internal customer support for social media content creators within the agency's community of practice. AND
Responding to internal and external inquiries for individuals or segments of the public directly and indirectly affected by an organization's programs that contribute to the overall understanding of the organization, thereby furthering community awareness and support for the missions of the agency.
For the GS-11: You must have one year of specialized experience at the GS-9 grade level in the federal service or equivalent private sector, that is directly related to the position as listed above and which has equipped the candidate with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience for this position is defined as:
Creating content for and managing one or more social media accounts for NARA or another similar sized organization with a regional or national following. AND
Writing and/or packaging communication products that may include text, graphics, video packages or photography for the purpose of public information. AND
Writing responses to internal and public inquiries, for supervisor approval, on subjects of importance to an organization for distribution to a wide audience.
OR
A Ph.D or equivalent doctoral degree; or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree; or LL.M., if related.
OR
You may qualify on a combination of education and experience. To combine education and experience, the total percentage of experience at the required grade level compared to the requirement, as well as the percentage of completed education compared to the requirement must equal at least 100 percent. (Only graduate level education in excess of the first two years 36 semester hours (54 quarter hours) may be combined to be considered for qualifying education.)
Contacts
- Address OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF
700 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20740
US
- Name: Applicant Call Center
- Phone: 304-480-8990
- Email: [email protected]
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