These positions are located in Pacific Northwest Region 6 in Bend, OR and Pendleton, OR. Serves as the Public Affairs Specialist responsible for providing leadership for planning, designing, executing a comprehensive public affairs program for communicating the organization's programs, policies, and activities to the surrounding publics. For additional information about the duties of this position, please contact Jon McMillan at 503-964-1425 or [email protected]

Duties

Duties listed below are at the full performance level. Provide leadership for planning, designing, and executing a comprehensive public affairs program for communicating the organizations programs, policies, and activities to the surrounding publics. Manage a synergized partnership program to identify potential partners that result in greatest value-added partnership projects aimed at achieving significant results, leveraged funds and increased accomplishments on the unit. Participate in the formulation of plans and policies by conducting research to assure direct consideration of public information and public relations implications of planned actions. Maintain knowledge of the most current and effective communication methods and techniques to carry out duties of the position and provide training in these methods for others as needed. Prepare information material for dissemination to various publics regarding natural resource programs, issues and/or policy, assuring technical accuracy through coordination of reviews by appropriate staff or technical experts. Ensure the partnership program aligns with unit?s goals of shared stewardships and promotion of leveraged investments in all land conservation activities . Encourage public participation and assure that their views will be considered by management in the decision-making process

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
• Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
• Successful completion of one year probationary period, unless previously served.
• Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov

Qualifications

In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards. Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Specialized Experience Requirement: GS-12: You must have one year specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service. Examples of specialized experience must include at least one or more: Established and maintained effective working relationships at multiple levels within an organization in order to develop and disseminate coordinated messages that accurately address organizational programs; Prepared written materials to promote the organization's position on a variety of sensitive, controversial and/or complex issues; Designed and tailored meetings and public involvement strategies to audiences that involved a degree of controversy. GS-13: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service. Examples of specialized experience must include one or more: Evaluated the effectiveness of a public affairs and/or communications program, contributed to long-range plans and developed new methods and techniques in communicating with an agency's various publics and groups. Provided leadership and direction to forest partnership programs and policies. Provided advisory assistance and worked with other partnership staff and specialist to coordinate efforts with other entities. Researched and analyzed controversial agency programs, assessed public reaction, and developed appropriate communication strategies, information materials, campaigns, and programs. Work Experience: Your resume must clearly document the following for each block of work experience; the beginning day, month and year the work assignment started and ended; the hours worked per week; position title, and series and grade if applicable; and description of duties performed. This information must be provided for each permanent, temporary, or seasonal appointment/work assignment or volunteer work and should be clearly documented as a separate block of time. Incomplete, inaccurate, or conflicting work history may not be credited for qualifications purposes. This can result in an applicant not being considered for the position. 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. TIME IN GRADE REQUIREMENT: If you are a current federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirements of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled. This requirement must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

Education

There is no substitution of education for specialized experience.

Contacts

• Address USDA Forest Service HRM Contact Center DO NOT MAIL IN APPLICATIONS, SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE ANNOUNCEMENT. Albuquerque, NM 87109 US
• Name: HRM Contact Center
• Phone: 1-877-372-7248 X2
• Email: [email protected]