Public Affairs Specialist - VA Careers - Westchester, IL

Public Affairs Specialist - VA Careers - Westchester, IL -

Public Affairs Specialist
VA Careers – Westchester, IL

Abstract

Emptiness Identification Quantity (VIN): 1768835
RELOCATION OR RECRUITMENT INCENTIVE MAY BE GIVEN TO A HIGHLY QUALIFIED CANDIDATE.

OUR MISSION : To satisfy President Lincoln’s promise “To look after him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan” by serving and honoring the women and men who’re America’s Veterans. How would you wish to develop into part of a group offering compassionate care to Veterans?

Particular Employment Consideration: VA encourages individuals with disabilities to use, together with these eligible for hiring underneath 5 CFR 213.3102(u), Schedule A, Appointment of individuals with disabilities [i.e., intellectual disabilities, severe physical disabilities, or psychiatric disabilities], and/or Disabled veterans with a compensable service-related incapacity of 30% or extra . Contact the Company Contact on the final web page of the JOA for info on tips on how to apply underneath this appointment authority by way of the Selective Placement Coordinator.
For extra info on the Who might apply eligibility necessities, please seek advice from the OHRM Standing Candidates and Different Candidate Definitions doc.
This place is organizationally situated on the Veterans Built-in Service Community (VISN) 12Workplace, Westchester, Illinois within the Workplace of the Deputy Community Director.

Duties

The Public Affairs Specialist performs work concerned in establishing and sustaining mutual communication between Federal businesses and most of the people and numerous different pertinent publics together with inner or exterior, overseas or home audiences.
Determine communication wants and develop info supplies that inform applicable publics of the company’s insurance policies, packages, providers and actions.
Plan, execute, and consider the effectiveness of data and communication packages in furthering company objectives.
Function a regional technical professional for VISN 12 with the Division of Veterans Affairs (DVA).
Develop and execute a regional public affairs program with particular emphasis on offering steerage in, and exercising duty for public affairs coverage, disaster response/management, skilled improvement, and safety.
Plan, arrange and management all public affairs actions and packages for the assigned area.
Direct regional info, public info group relations and marketing operations that promote understanding of the mission, packages, and actions.
Develop messages and themes to inner and exterior stakeholders, to incorporate different Veterans Affairs workplaces and businesses, Congress, the media, academia, enterprise and nationwide business leaders, state and native authorities delegations, non governmental organizations and public curiosity teams.
Conduct the general public affairs program for a area of the DVA with duty for planning, creating, and speaking the group’s packages, insurance policies and actions to the regional publics.
Coordinate with the company degree DVA Public Affairs Workplace to make sure the general public affairs program is in live performance with the DVA Imaginative and prescient and all relevant DVA tips and insurance policies.
Present session to administrators and managers inside the area in creating course in public affairs actions to help the full management effort.
Carry out complicated analysis features to analysis points, histories and developments and all different pertinent knowledge to determine a planning baseline for the general public affairs program.
Work Schedule: M-F eight:00 am to four:30 PM
Place Description: PAS Specialist 16226-O
Journey Required
Occasional Journey
temporary visits to websites inside VISN 12 Relocation Approved
No Job Necessities Job Necessities Key Necessities
You have to be a U.S. citizen to use for this job.
Topic to a background/suitability investigation.
Designated and/or random drug testing could also be required.
Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959. Qualifications

To qualify for this place, candidates should meet all necessities by the time limit of this announcement.
Specialised Expertise : Candidates should have one full yr of specialised expertise associated to the duties of this place. To be creditable, this expertise should have been equal to at the least the GS-12 grade degree within the Federal Service. Specialised expertise is outlined as:
Confirmed potential to use communication rules, strategies, practices and methods; creating and making use of new approaches to probably the most troublesome and sophisticated public affairs issues; creating or evaluating info packages; enhancing understanding amongst these opposed or detached to packages.
Confirmed potential to research public response to packages and insurance policies; in creating suggestions that considerably modify main packages or insurance policies; and integrating numerous factors of view in a communication plan in establishing and sustaining mutual understanding.
Confirmed capability to current written supplies in methods that may improve understanding amongst these with various ranges of comprehension of packages and insurance policies, or opposition or indifference to this system goals.
Confirmed capability to make on-the-spot shows to audiences with opposing factors of view; or faulty understanding of positions to realize a extra balanced perspective.
Confirmed capacity to determine and keep efficient working relationships with people who’ve opposing factors of view and conflicting pursuits and explaining a place whereas not criticizing different views or arousing damaging hostility.
Confirmed potential to research conflicting knowledge; summarize suggestions or program modifications; contemplate numerous factors of view; and specify causes for acceptance or rejection of the info.
Selective Issue : A selective factorispart of the minimal specialised expertise necessities for this place. Candidates who don’t meet the selective issue are ineligible for additional consideration. Your software for this place should present you will have the expertise listed within the following issue: Demonstrated expertise in communication with congressional employees together with elected officers and their employees in addition to native and nationwide media together with TV, Radio, and Newspaper.
Expertise refers to paid and unpaid expertise, together with volunteer work completed via Nationwide Service packages (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and different organizations (e.g., skilled; philanthropic; religions; religious; group; scholar; social). Volunteer work helps construct crucial competencies, information, and expertise and may present beneficial coaching and expertise that interprets on to paid employment. You’ll obtain credit score for all qualifying expertise, together with volunteer expertise.

Notice: Solely schooling or levels acknowledged by the U.S. Division of Schooling from accredited schools, universities, faculties, or establishments could also be used to qualify for Federal employment. You’ll be able to confirm your schooling right here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/ . In case you are utilizing overseas schooling to satisfy qualification necessities, you should ship a Certificates of Overseas Equivalency together with your transcript with a view to obtain credit score for that schooling.

Bodily Necessities: Work is often carried out sitting at a desk, in information conferences, briefings, conferences, and so forth.; or driving in an vehicle or public transportation. No particular bodily calls for are concerned in performing the work.
Time-in-grade : Candidates who’re present Federal staff and have held a GS grade any time prior to now 52 weeks should additionally meet time-in-grade necessities For a GS-13 place you have to have served 52 weeks on the GS-12 degree.
Safety Clearance
Public Belief – Background Investigation

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