Deadline: Tue, 05/23/2023 - 12:00pm Employer: National Marine Fisheries Job Field: Fisheries Job Type: Full Time Location: Regional/Multiple Location Detail: Long Beach, CA, Sacramento, CA, Boise, ID, Portland, OR, Seattle, WA Job Description: As a Public Affairs Specialist, you will perform the following duties: Review and route documents for leadership approval and external distribution. Manage the rollout plan process for the West Coast Region, a process by which staff prepare a plan to accompany and guide the external announcement ("rollout") of a policy or decision, which includes advising staff on the development of the rollout plan, overseeing internal review of the plan, facilitating final approval, and ensuring implementation of the plan. Collaborate with leadership and other staff members/technical and scientific staff to provide strategies and prepare materials for raising regulatory and scientific public awareness of agency policy. Create communications products to inform the public on agency actions and processes, including developing briefing materials aimed at congressional, stakeholder, or other audiences. 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. 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. Miscellaneous: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZA-2 or GS-07 grade level or equivalent pay band in the Federal service. Masters or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B. or J.D. A combination of education and experience as described above. Salary: $46,696 - $124,677 per year Benefits: A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. How to Apply: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/724474600#
