This position is located in the Office of the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. As the Writer-Editor, you will advance public engagement on civil rights issues through expert writing, editing, and persuasive storytelling. You will draft, edit, and finalize talking points, remarks, and speeches, as well as accessible, audience-tailored content for the web, reports, stakeholder communications, and public-facing statements.

Duties

The incumbent will serve as a Writer-Editor. Duties include, but are not limited to: Subject matter expert writer and editor for executive communications. Researches, drafts, gathers feedback, edits, and finalizes talking points, speeches, and remarks to produce accurate and fact-checked content that is well-tailored to the intended audience and consistent with applicable prior messaging on similar topics. Works as part of cross-functional teams with Division and Department staff (including the Office of Public Affairs) to support public engagement and ensure that written work aligns with Department/Division standards, positions, and mission goals. Drafts, gathers feedback, edits, and finalizes public-facing written content for the Division as part of cross-functional teams that support the Division's web properties (including justice.gov/CRT, ADA.gov, Lep.gov, and social media) as well as other published materials (public-facing reports, letters, emails, op-eds, press releases, and other written statements). Brings expert-level understanding of plain language principles to translate technical information into accessible, audience-appropriate content and copy that is consistent with and incorporated in the Division's evolving public communications guide/style guides. Develops and leads training for staff on writing for the public and using the Division's public communications guide/style guides.

Requirements

Qualifications

Specialized Experience Requirements To qualify at the GS-13 grade level, candidates must have one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service or other pay system. Specialized experience must include: (1) drafting, editing and finalizing executive communications for leadership; (2) writing remarks, speeches, talking points, and communicating with senior-level staff; (3) reviewing and editing written material prepared by others; and (4) preparing public-facing written content that is well-tailored for publication audience. In order to be rated as qualified for this position, we must be able to determine that you meet the specialized experience requirement - please be sure to include this information in your resume. To be creditable, this experience must have been equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade of the position to be filled. Specialized experience is defined as experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. 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 REQUIREMENTS: Merit promotion applicants applying for a grade higher than the grade you currently hold, must provide an SF-50, which shows type of service appointment, tenure group, grade, and salary. Your SF-50 Form must also show the length of time you have been in your current/highest grade (examples of appropriate SF-50s include Promotions, Within Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s over one year old). No award SF-50s will be accepted. Current Civil Rights Division employees are not required to submit an SF-50. All qualifications, time-in-grade, and education requirements (if applicable) must be met by the closing date of this announcement and clearly documented in your resume. YOUR RESUME MUST support your responses to the online questionnaire and provide specific details as to how your experience meets the specialized experience as described in the vacancy announcement. If you are using experience to meet all or part of the qualification requirements, please ensure that your resume includes the month and year that you began and ended each position held or that position will not be credited toward meeting the specialized experience requirement. Part-time employment will be prorated in crediting experience. Failure to provide details will result in an ineligible rating. Your latest resume submitted for this vacancy announcement will be used to determine qualifications and supersedes previous submissions.

Education

This position does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address Civil Rights Division 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530 US
• Name: Diane Turner
• Email: [email protected]