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Obligations:
OBXtek is on the lookout for a professional candidate to fill the Public Affairs Specialist in Public Affairs, Workplace of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Safety, U.S. Division of State.
The Workplace of Public Affairs conducts a strong media relations and public info program, each nationally and internationally, for the Bureau of Diplomatic Safety. It creates and coordinates the manufacturing of public info supplies, reveals, and multimedia supplies, and responding to all press and public inquiries to and concerning the bureau. It manages the DS Web Website online and serves as an advisor to different workplaces inside the bureau on communications-associated points and methods.
The incumbent serves as an advisor to bureau officers for public affairs and media-associated actions of the bureau.Serves as a bureau spokesperson, press, and public affairs specialist for Diplomatic Safety and is chargeable for conducting and responding to interviews and inquiries by publications, tv, radio, and different media retailers on bureau-associated points. The incumbent serves as a communication strategist; writes/edits public info supplies for bureau use and dissemination by way of print, on-line, and broadcast media; and manages particular tasks designed to advance the DS mission and objectives.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
The Public Affairs Specialist is liable for performing work primarily involving communications, outreach, and media-associated actions in regards to the Bureau of Diplomatic Safety and Workplace of Overseas Missions (e.g., media relations, writing/modifying, strategic communications planning/implementation).
The incumbent communicates with colleagues, company management, and different contacts outdoors the company to collect and analyze details about company processes and packages; advises management of the necessity for formulation of data tasks; and communicates bureau packages and actions to the varied publics via the media and thru the event of public info supplies.
Basic Duties and Obligations:
- Communicates externally and maintains a robust working relationship with the general public affairs specialists within the Division of State and the Division’s Public Affairs Bureau, members of the information media, members of most of the people, native communities, and counterparts in different federal businesses. Coordinates media interviews and bureau public info packages.
- Offers steerage within the improvement and implementation of Public Affairs program methods for extremely seen company packages, serves as a contributing author for bureau publications, identifies and analyzes communications wants, and creates and develops communication plans and supplies to deal with specific program wants or issues. Analyzes particular subjects for protection and the simplest media to make use of to succeed in the specified audiences and evaluates the influence and effectiveness of the communication plans.
- Supplies communications enter and experience throughout DS/PA communications technique periods referring to the promotion of DS packages and operations amongst goal audiences.
- Arranges and promotes media alternatives to advance the bureau’s mission and objectives.
- Directs, coordinates, and oversees preparations with broadcast and print media involving bureau actions. Serves as liaison to the media on bureau points, actions, and operations, and retains bureau management suggested of bureauassociated media points and tales.
- Handles media inquiries, develops and writes info supplies, and acts on media relations alternatives/challenges associated to the next DS points and equities: passport and visa fraud; worldwide fugitive returns; safety of personnel and amenities in excessive-menace environments; home regulation enforcement investigations; federal regulation enforcement; bodily safety and engineering; diplomatic privileges and protections; pc safety; and delicate worldwide coverage deliberations and communications.
- Ceaselessly, the media supplies developed, in addition to different communications supplies, cope with delicate home/worldwide points and controversial topics (e.g., passport/visa fraud, worldwide fugitive returns, and personnel/amenities safety). The knowledge developed can require specific sensitivity and information referring to division packages, insurance policies, and personnel.
- Develops, clears, and offers direct responses, on background, to media inquiries on the problems above referring to the bureau- together with actions, operations, and packages. Develops, writes, and edits informational supplies that help the recognized objectives of the bureau which might be designed to succeed in focused audiences by way of alternatives within the information media-e.g., interviews, statements, written responses, function tales.
- Advises senior bureau management officers on media-associated points. Researches, develops, drafts, writes, and clears supplies for these bureau officers (e.g. speeches, press statements, speaking factors, and steerage referring to the media).
- Directs, develops, organizes, and coordinates media interviews with bureau officers; coordinates regional public affairs packages involving DS actions. Briefs and prepares bureau officers for media interviews so as to current the bureau’s place within the strongest and most favorable mild. Initiates, develops, coordinates, and prepares written supporting supplies, press kits, and different related supplies for such interviews.
- Oversees and manages bureau clearances for media interviews, DS responses to media inquiries, and DOS steerage to be used in responding to the media and different media-targeted supplies (e.g., information releases, press steerage supplies,responses to media inquiries, requests for media interviews, statements in shut collaboration with senior public affairs officers, and content material specialists inside DS and others inside Important State.
- Works intently with senior officers on the ideas and tone wanted to convey key messaging in public paperwork and in interactions with the media and most of the people.
- The interplay additionally includes shut collaboration with different State Division and DS employees to answer media inquiries and interview requests develop press steerage supplies, speeches/speaking factors, information releases, and brochures.
- Seeks alternatives to pitch to print and broadcast media DS actions referring to the work of particular brokers within the subject (e.g., articles in hometown newspapers, appearances on tv and radio, collaborating in public occasions, interviews, and so on.). Serves as a DS/PA liaison with DS Particular-Brokers-in-Cost (SACs) in DS Subject Workplaces on public affairs and media associated actions. Works intently with the Felony Investigative Liaison (CIL) employees in offering communications methods and publicizing DS-associated fugitive returns.
- Performs analysis, develops, writes, and edits public info supplies utilized by inner and exterior audiences to advance the bureau’s mission and objectives-creating communication plans to find out probably the most logical and efficient use of the supplies to succeed in focused audiences.
- Develops, implements, and manages communication plans; public info supplies (e.g., brochures, reality sheets); and particular tasks to deal with specific program wants or issues.
- Works with DS Workplaces to make sure that externally-targeted informational supplies (e.g., print and on-line brochures,publications, and so forth.) have: 1) top quality editorial content material, 2) consistency of messaging, and three) adherence DOS/DS editorial and content material requirements (e.g., content material clearances, use of logos, and so forth.).
- Develops, coordinates, and manages main Public Affairs tasks (e.g., OS Memorial Wall, tv information segments, museum exhibitions) to boost consciousness of the bureau and its personnel. These tasks are excessive visibility, can final a yr or longer, and require in depth analysis, adherence to excessive requirements, and absolute accuracy.
- Analyzes subjects and alternatives for media protection and different focused-viewers outreach (inner and exterior), then strategizes and supplies enter to management about challenge concepts and alternatives to speak bureau insurance policies, program and actions to varied publics (e.g., OS Particular Agent awards, options about excellent DS personnel).
Qualifications:
Have to be US Citizen and have the ability to get hold of and retain a US DoD Prime Secret Clearance.
Schooling, Information and Expertise Necessities:
> BA/BS in Communications, Worldwide Relations, or different related area. Extra expertise could be substituted for the tutorial requirement.
> eight+ years of comparable expertise
> Mastery information of rules, strategies, practices, and methods of oral and written communications, analytical strategies, and interpersonal relations practices.
> Talent in creating and making use of new approaches to probably the most troublesome and sophisticated public affairs issues of anagency by creating or evaluating info packages enhancing understanding amongst publics detached or against company packages.
> Talent in creating and establishing efficient working relationships with quite a lot of people and organizations, together with media, with an curiosity in organizational actions, objectives and operations.
> Capacity to offer representatives of the media with well timed and correct explanations of company insurance policies, laws, operations, and actions.
> Talent in creating, writing, and modifying informational supplies together with information statements, steerage, press releases, speeches, reality sheets, speaking factors, booklets, brochures for dissemination via quite a lot of media, reaching numerous publics and bureau staff.
> Talent in analyzing public response to bureau packages and insurance policies in creating suggestions that considerably modify main packages or insurance policies.
> Talent in integrating numerous factors of view in a communication plan to determine and keep mutual understanding with numerous company publics.
> Information and talent in writing and editorial coverage that features group, consistency of favor, use of transitions and parallel development, in addition to the power to rewrite, edit, proofread, and enhance draft written supplies for consistency, accuracy and high quality-making certain that written merchandise are cleared for accuracy and include no battle with the insurance policies and goals of the bureau.
> Means to conceive, develop, implement, and handle DS Public Affairs particular tasks that advance the mission and objectives of the bureau.
> Potential to deal with a number of assignments, meet tight deadlines, and have sound interpersonal and undertaking management expertise in interacting with senior executives, in addition to personnel in any respect ranges of the division.
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