- Position Title
- Writer-Editor
- Agency
- DHS Headquarters
- Announcement Number
- IMP-10991583-21-CASR Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Tuesday, January 12, 2021 to Tuesday, January 19, 2021
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Eligibilities
1.
Are you a current or former federal employee displaced from the agency hiring for this position? If yes, confirm:
• you are located in the same local commuting area of the vacancy; AND,
• you are applying to a position that is at or below the grade level of the position from which you were or will be separated; AND,
• you are applying to a position that does not have greater promotion potential than the position from which you were or will be separated; AND,
• your last performance rating of record is at least fully successful or the equivalent.
For more information, review the USAJOBS Help Center.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit supporting documentation such as a Reduction in Force (RIF) separation notice or a Proposed Removal/Separation notice to include your latest performance rating (if the notice does not have this information included, you must submit a copy of your most recent performance appraisal) and a copy of your latest Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50.
• you are located in the same local commuting area of the vacancy; AND,
• you are applying to a position that is at or below the grade level of the position from which you were or will be separated; AND,
• you are applying to a position that does not have greater promotion potential than the position from which you were or will be separated; AND,
• your last performance rating of record is at least fully successful or the equivalent.
For more information, review the USAJOBS Help Center.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit supporting documentation such as a Reduction in Force (RIF) separation notice or a Proposed Removal/Separation notice to include your latest performance rating (if the notice does not have this information included, you must submit a copy of your most recent performance appraisal) and a copy of your latest Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50.
2.
Are you a currently employed as a Federal civilian employee with the Department of Homeland Security in the Competitive Service?
To verify your eligibility as a current DHS employee, you must submit a copy of your Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50) or equivalent personnel action form reflecting your permanent, competitive status. Your SF-50 (or equivalent personnel action form) must reflect:
• career or career-conditional (Tenure field is 1 or 2); AND,
• your status is in the competitive service (Position Occupied field is 1).
To verify your eligibility as a current DHS employee, you must submit a copy of your Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50) or equivalent personnel action form reflecting your permanent, competitive status. Your SF-50 (or equivalent personnel action form) must reflect:
• career or career-conditional (Tenure field is 1 or 2); AND,
• your status is in the competitive service (Position Occupied field is 1).
3.
Are you a currently employed as a Federal civilian employee with the Department of Homeland Security who have held or currently holds, a permanent competitive service position in the federal government with equal or higher promotion potential as this position?
To verify your eligibility as a current DHS employee, you must submit a copy of your Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50) or equivalent personnel action form reflecting your permanent, competitive status. Your SF-50 (or equivalent personnel action form) must reflect:
• career or career-conditional (Tenure field is 1 or 2); AND,
• your status is in the competitive service (Position Occupied field is 1), or, your status is in the excepted service (Position Occupied field is 2) and you are eligible under a valid interchange agreement.
To verify your eligibility as a current DHS employee, you must submit a copy of your Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50) or equivalent personnel action form reflecting your permanent, competitive status. Your SF-50 (or equivalent personnel action form) must reflect:
• career or career-conditional (Tenure field is 1 or 2); AND,
• your status is in the competitive service (Position Occupied field is 1), or, your status is in the excepted service (Position Occupied field is 2) and you are eligible under a valid interchange agreement.
Assessment 1
1.
Choose the one answer that best describes your experience as related to the minimum qualification requirements for the Writer Editor, GS-13 position.
Before answering this question, see the qualifications section on this announcement.
Before answering this question, see the qualifications section on this announcement.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
2.
Develops, writes and publishes news about the department and its components
3.
Finds news items that will be of interest to employees, researches and writes articles.
4.
Prepares messages for electronic distribution, ensuring consistency through the application and standard layouts and templates.
5.
Ensures that the Department's branding guidelines are appropriately used for employee communications generated by Internal Communications.
6.
Draws material from a variety of sources, analyze and screen for selection of facts.
7.
Plays primary role in ensuring current and accurate content is available to employees.
8.
Prepares messages for electronic distribution, ensuring consistency through the application and standard layouts and templates.
9.
Drafts communication, develop longer-term communications plans or monitor media coverage of an incident.
10.
Edits and comments upon messages drafted by others and sent to the Management Front Office and the Office of Public Affairs for pre-distribution review.
11.
Drafts, edits and distributes messages to employees.
12.
Keeps abreast of style and format requirements of the Government, Department, Office of Public Affairs and the audiences.
13.
Plays an assigned role in incident communications.
14.
Recommends criteria for appropriateness and establishes guidelines for submission of articles.
15.
Evaluates coverage and audience response and recommends changes to content and format as appropriate.
16.
Your responses in this Assessment Questionnaire are subject to evaluation and verification. Later steps in the selection process are specifically designed to verify your responses. Deliberate attempts to falsify information may be grounds for disqualifying you or for dismissing you from employment following acceptance. Please take this opportunity to review your responses to ensure their accuracy. By agreeing to this statement below, you are confirming that you have reviewed your responses to this questionnaire for accuracy, and verify that your responses accurately describe your current level of experience and capability. Failure to agree to the statement below will disqualify you from further consideration for this position.