This position is located in the National Ocean Service (NOS) Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS), with one vacancy in Silver Spring, MD; Alpena, MI; Santa Barbara, CA; Port Angeles, WA; Norfolk, VA; or Savannah, GA. This position is also announced under vacancy number NOS ONMS-24-12320350-ST, which is open to Status Candidates. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both. Applicants may apply to a limit of two locations.

Duties

As a Communications Specialists, you will perform the following duties: Develop and implement outreach and communications best practices, procedures, and guidance for ocean policy, education, and conservation initiatives. Develop, promote, and advocate for collaborative opportunities for technical information/resource exchanges and coordination around issues of mutual interest to the system, other National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) teams, and its constituents. Provide technical expertise for the development and implementation of in-reach and outreach communication and marketing strategies, products, and services to raise awareness and visibility of the sanctuary system.

Requirements

Qualifications

Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy EDUCATION: There is no positive education requirement for this position. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government. 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. To qualify at the ZA-4 or GS-13: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZA-3 or GS-12 in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Developing or implementing marketing plans and outreach programs to increase program or project awareness; Planning and disseminating information using a variety of communication methods or platforms such as multimedia technologies; and Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders and maintaining an effective partnership.

Education

College Transcript: If you are qualifying based on education, submit a copy of your college transcript that lists college courses detailing each course by the number and department (i.e., Bio 101, Math 210, etc.), course title, number of credit hours and grade earned. You must submit evidence that any education completed in a foreign institution is equivalent to U.S. education standards with your resume. You may submit an unofficial copy of the transcript at the initial phase of the application process. If course content cannot be easily identified from the title of the course as listed on your transcript, you must submit an official course description from the college/university that reflects the content at the time the course was taken.

Note: Your college transcript is used to verify successful completion of degree, or college course work. An official college transcript will be required before you can report to duty.

Special Instructions for Foreign Education: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities must be evaluated in terms of equivalency to that acquired in U.S. colleges and universities. Applicants educated in whole or in part in foreign countries must submit sufficient evidence, including transcripts, to an accredited private organization for an equivalency evaluation of course work and degree. A listing of these accredited organizations can be found on the Department of Education's website. You MUST provide a copy of the letter containing the results of the equivalency evaluation with a course by course listing along with your application. Failure to provide such documentation by the closing date of the announcement will result in lost consideration. For more information on how foreign education is evaluated, visit: OPM Foreign Education Evaluation

Contacts

• Address NOAA Office of Human Capital Services (OHCS) 1315 East West Hwy SSMC4 Silver Spring, MD 20910 US
• Name: Applicant Inquiries
• Email: [email protected]