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Job opening: Writer Editor

Salary: $117 962 - 153 354 per year
Published at: Mar 04 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
The Office of Public Affairs directs and coordinates all public and employee communications activities within the Department of Labor (DOL). OPA serves as the first point of contact for news media inquiries, clearance, and dissemination point for all DOL public-facing materials, and the development and maintenance of the Department's web-based, audiovisual, and contact center communications.

Duties

As a Writer Editor, duties include but are not limited to the following: Provides expert-level support in articulating the agency's message, philosophy, and position on program issues and agency activities. Develops and implements comprehensive news media plans and activities. As a media spokesperson establishes and maintains effective working relationships with representatives of the print and electronic news media as well as the Department's executive, program, and public affairs staff. Responds orally or in writing to requests for information or assistance from the news media or various segments of the private sector. Writes and edits news releases, statements, messages, responses to correspondence, briefing materials, and other public information materials, using a high level of expertise in Plain Language principles. Writes and edits byline and feature articles, video scripts, speeches, factsheets, publications and other informational materials designed to increase public understanding of the Department's objectives and activities in the following sensitive areas, Participates in discussions or conferences with supervisor and senior Departmental officials and their staffs to establish policies, priorities and desirable approaches to be used in developing media materials.

Requirements

  • Must be at least 16 years old.
  • Must be a U.S. Citizen.
  • Candidate required to obtain the necessary security/investigation level.
  • Requires a probationary period if the requirement has not been met.

Qualifications

WHO MAY APPLY: Applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.Career Transition Assistance PlanCertain Military SpousesCurrent Federal Career/Career Conditional Employees with Competitive StatusCurrent Federal Career/Career Conditional Employees with Non-Competitive statusInteragency Career Transition Assistance PlanLand Management Workforce Flexibility Act EligibleOPM Interchange Agreement and Other Miscellaneous AuthoritiesPeace Corps Volunteer or Staff, AmeriCorps VISTAPeople with DisabilitiesReinstatement CompetitiveReinstatement Non-CompetitiveVeterans Employment Opportunities Act All applicants are required to submit a resume with your application. To receive full consideration for relevant and specialized experience, please list dates of employment as month/year to month/year (i.e., 03/2020 - 03/2023) or month/year to present (i.e., 03/2022 - Present) and the number of hours worked per week for each period of employment/experience listed in your resume (i.e., 40 hours per week or full-time). If the experience was performed on a part-time basis, please list the number of hours per week the duties were performed (i.e., 20 hours per week). Qualification determinations cannot be made when resumes do not include the required information and failure to provide this information may result in an ineligible rating. Your responses to the questionnaire must be supported/demonstrated in your resume. IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. For helpful tips on creating a federal resume, please click here. You must meet the Specialized Experience to qualify for Writer Editor, as described below. For GS-13: Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level GS-12 in the Federal Service. Specialized Experience is the experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to perform the duties of the position successfully, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level. Qualifying specialized experience for GS-13 includes: 1) Writing or editing materials for public view, such as news releases, speeches, blog posts, etc.; and 2) Directing on-the-record contacts with members of the news media, and participation in news media interviews with subject matter experts and officials; and 3) Coordinating public campaigns, events and roll-outs with internal and external stakeholders; and experience coordinating crisis communications. Time-in-Grade Requirements: Any individual who within the previous 52 weeks held a General Schedule position under a non temporary appointment in the competitive or excepted service in the executive branch must meet the time-in-grade requirements. Time in grade requirement for the GS-13 grade level - 52 weeks of Federal service at the GS-12 grade level (if applicable). Applicants must meet time-in-grade (52 weeks at the next lower level), time-after-competitive-appointment (90 days, if applicable), and qualifications requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement to be eligible for consideration.

Education

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

Contacts

  • Address Office of Public Affairs 200 Constitution Avenue NW Washington, DC 20210 US
  • Name: Bobbie Vinup
  • Phone: 212-337-2356
  • Email: [email protected]

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