Description
Salary: $47,424 - $71,110
Position Grade: 208G
Department: Multiple Departments
Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent)
Examination Number: EX1678
Location: St. Louis, MO
Incumbents in this position are responsible for developing and coordinating all communications and public affairs efforts for a division of a large City department or agency. Duties include coordinating public relations activities such as press conferences, public appearances, speaking engagements, interviews, and special events; writing/editing press releases, news articles, features, speeches, and television scripts; developing marketing and promotional materials; and giving presentations to various groups.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Coordinates and supports the combined preparation and response efforts of multiple departments in gathering, validating, and distributing emergency information to protect and inform the public and internal City stakeholders.
- Coordinates and/or assists in coordination of public relations activities such as press conferences, public appearances, speaking engagements, interviews, and special events. Writes and edits press releases, news articles, features, speeches, and television scripts.
- Acts as division spokesperson as requested; answers questions from press; presents information to news media and public; gives presentations to groups. Develops marketing and promotional materials such as brochures, publications, newsletters, videos, simple infographics, television programming, and web pages; originates ideas, develops design and layout.
- Acts as public information advisor to other division staff; reviews correspondence and speeches proposed by others. Coordinates all interview requests and interview activity for division. Records and/or takes pictures for use in publications, slide shows, and special events, and social media.
- Monitors media for coverage of division activities.
- Utilizes social media to spread awareness of the department's work and values. Acts as a liaison for the department; works with other departmental public information officers and the Mayor’s Office as necessary on collaborative projects and messaging.
- May serve as website contact for the department, coordinating with the City’s web team to keep the department’s pages up to date and correct.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform basic level of data analysis including the ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize and/or reference data, statutes and/or guidelines and/or group, rank, investigate and diagnose. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established standards to recognize interactive effects and relationships.
- Human Interaction: Requires the ability to provide paraprofessional level counseling in semi-specialized areas, such as social service referral and casework.
- Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate a variety of office equipment such as computer terminal, typewriter, telephone, fax machine, calculator/adding machine, computer printer and photocopier.
- Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of advisory data and information such as detainee records, case notes, referral recommendations, incident reports, contact sheets, grievance forms, treatment plans, intake forms, directories, statutes, procedures, guidelines and non-routine correspondence.
- Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
- Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems. Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule form. Ability to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objective.
- Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental and/or subjective criteria, as opposed to criteria that are clearly measurable or verifiable.
- Environmental Factors: Work is normally performed in an office environment under generally safe and comfortable conditions where exposure to disease and irate individuals poses a very limited risk of injury.
- Physical Requirements: Requires the ability to lift files and office materials up to twenty pounds.
- Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of shapes and sounds associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks to clearly distinguish objects and communicate with detainees and others.
Qualifications
A Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Public Relations, Communications, or a closely related field; OR four years of communications, marketing, or public relations experience. OR, an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Scoring Components and Their Weights
Experience and Training: 100%
May be Subject to:
Background Investigation: Pass/Fail
Medical Examination: Pass/Fail
Documentation of Academic Credentials must be Submitted Upon Request
When completing the Employment History and the Educational/Training History sections of the Employment Application, please be as thorough as possible when describing your education, training and experience relating to this position. Applicants will only receive credit for their experience, training and education as shown on the application. Resumes will not be accepted as a substitute to a fully completed application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Veterans Preference Points
To be eligible for veteran's preference points, the applicant must submit a copy of their DD 214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty with the Employment Application or upon request. The Director of Personnel may, in their discretion, accept alternate documentation.
City Residence Preference Points
City residents who pass an examination for a position in the classified service and do not receive any other preference will receive a five (5) point preference on a scale of 100 points on the exam. An additional one (1) point shall be added to the passing score of City residents who receive any other preference on a scale of 100 points. City residents must have resided in the City for at least one (1) year at the time of filing their application to be eligible for the preference points.
Accommodations
If assistance with the job application is necessary based on a physical impairment, mental impairment, or otherwise, they should reach out to the Office on the Disabled with contact information. This office will not disclose any information that an applicant or employee has a disability or has discussed possible accommodations without the applicant's or employee's prior consent.
