Supervisory Public Affairs Specialist

Applicants must meet all the required qualification requirements described below by the closing date of this announcement. NOTE: Applicants must meet time-in-grade and time after competitive appointment requirements, by the closing date of this announcement. Time-In-Grade Requirements: Federal applicants must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade to satisfy time-in-grade restrictions, per 5CFR 300, Subpart F.

Applicants must have 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 level in the Federal service which provided the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of the position. Qualifying specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience directing public affairs functions, including media relations, executive communications, and multichannel initiatives that require coordination with internal and external stakeholders.

Experience managing public affairs operations: leading staff and overseeing communications budgets and contracts. Experience establishing positioning frameworks, communications architecture, and approval standards across the bureau to adapt communications approaches in response to shifts in Department priorities. Experience advising senior leadership on communications risks and developing response strategies for sensitive or rapidly evolving issues.

Experience establishing communications performance measures, using analytics, and emerging technologies to improve communications strategy and operations. There is no substitute of education for specialized experience for the GS-15 position.

In addition, applicant's experience must also demonstrate that the candidate possesses the following qualities: Ability to assign, review, and supervise the work of others; Objectivity and fairness in judging people on their ability, and situations on the facts and circumstances; Ability to adjust to change, work pressures, or difficult situations without undue stress; Willingness to consider new ideas or divergent points of view; and Capacity to "see the job through."

Directs the strategy and structure of ECA's public-facing communications, including its narrative framework, digital channel portfolio, and visual identity.,Develops and adapts the bureau's public-positioning framework to explain ECA's mission and impact to Department leaders, Congress, interagency and implementing partners, the press, and the public as priorities shift.,Serves as the bureau's principal advisor on public affairs and applies expert knowledge of ECA's public diplomacy portfolio, its foreign policy purposes, and its stakeholders.,Supervises staff performing public affairs and communications functions.,Develops statements of work for contracts covering about 20 personnel, coordinates contract matters with procurement officials and vendors, and oversees COR monitoring of vendor performance.