- Position Title
- Public Affairs Specialist
- Agency
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Announcement Number
- R1-22-11370029-KTM-DE Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Wednesday, January 26, 2022 to Tuesday, February 8, 2022
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Eligibilities
1.
Do you claim Veterans’ Preference?
2.
Are you a U.S. citizen or national?
Assessment 1
Minimum Qualifications
For each question, choose the response that best describes your experience and training. Mark only one response for each question. Please note that your answers will be verified against the information you provided in your resume or application and information provided by your references.
1.
Choose the response that best describes your qualifications for the GS-13 grade level.
Mastery level knowledge of communication principles, methods, practices, and techniques in order to function as a communications authority for a wide variety of complex, sensitive, and highly visible Service activities and initiatives and to develop and disseminate written and oral information to the news media, partners, stakeholders, Congress, NGOs, and the general public.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
2.
Lead the development of communication strategic plans, including marketing strategies and community engagement to help promote better understanding and possibly change behavior of intended audiences
3.
Coordinates the development and implementation of communications efforts involving multiple internal and external partners, ensuring alignment with strategic communications goals and messages.
4.
Serves as a spokesperson in a fast-paced media environment for print, broadcast and Web-based media on often sensitive or controversial issues of national and/or international significance.
5.
Advise management about constituent group (internal and external) positions, actions, and opportunities to push priority work as well as the various audiences' potential reactions to organizational policies and programs and recommend appropriate actions.
Knowledge of conservation issues, Federal wildlife law and regulations, and natural resource and wildlife management topics in order to convey in layman's terms, complex technical information in a clear, accurate, interesting, and engaging manner that captures the attention and meets the needs of the news media and the public.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
6.
Engage audiences on natural resource conservation issues using creative storytelling and/or compelling narratives.
7.
Prepare written technical information such as informational fact sheets and articles to concisely convey information on natural resource conservation issues to various audiences.
8.
Researches scientific and policy information concerning wildlife conservation issues from multiple sources, verifies accuracy, and synthesizes for use in communications materials.
9.
Conservation and natural resource management work on islands, in marine environments, along coastlines, or other related high profile topic areas.
Expert ability to meet and deal appropriately with a wide variety of individuals at various levels within the public and private sectors, including representatives of the local and national news media and NGOs in order to convey information regarding the Service in an effective manner.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
10.
Establish and maintain working relationships with news media representatives, including communications professionals associated with non-government organizations and other issue stakeholders.
11.
Develop and substantially improve long-term relationships with both internal and external regional and/or national partners to significantly advance shared environmental education and conservation goals.
12.
Develop collaborative relationships with internal partners and teammates that advance agency priorities and achieve agency goals.
13.
Work effectively with key constituencies regarding complex issues such as renewable energy, habitat conservation, species protection, landscape-scale conservation, partnerships, mitigation, fisheries or other high-profile issues.
Expert ability to work under pressure and short deadlines and to provide coordinated responses (on and off record) to communication demands often times to audiences with opposing points of view or erroneous understanding of agency positions to achieve a more balanced perspective among these publics.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
14.
Responds to inquiries and manages communications under tight deadlines and works on a daily basis with agency leadership to accurately portray the position of the agency.
15.
Verbally conveys complex and scientific issues to the general public, agency leadership, and key stakeholders, occasionally under hostile conditions.
16.
Conveys complex scientific and technical information to a general audience and key stakeholders across multiple verbal and written media formats, including print, Web and social media.
17.
Apply professional communications and management skills to problem solving in order to enhance or improve a conservation or environmental program's mission accomplishment.
18.
Uses clear and concise writing to quickly communicate agency position and perspectives in terms appropriate for different audiences.
Skill in establishing and maintaining working relationships with a variety of individuals, some of whom have opposing points of view.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
19.
Analyze communication needs and develop and recommend strategies to management that will advance the mission of the organization
20.
Research and understand different community perspectives for inclusion in outreach, communications, and environmental education products and plans.
21.
Coordinate print and broadcast media interviews with staff members, and oversee arrangements with the media involving agency activities that reflect community priorities and values.
22.
Synthesize large amounts of complex information to develop simple, workable recommendations for the communication of topics of the greatest interest to media, the public, internal audiences, and community members.
23.
Develops creative and innovative ways to draw media and community attention to complex wildlife conservation issues through the use of digital, media, outreach, and environmental education opportunities.