Public Affairs Specialist

The Social Media Content Specialist is responsible for facilitating content development and approval processes in accordance with established guidelines while supporting strategy implementation to engage audiences through social media.

In this position you will:

• research write edit publish and monitor social media content across platforms that builds meaningful connections with audiences encouraging engagement with the museums collections exhibitions programming educational initiatives web content and the Searchable Museum.
• implement testing and recommend adjustments to content towards engaging and educating online audiences while fostering dialogue and influencing engagement across content types cultural moments campaigns and historical commemorations.
• educate colleagues across the museum about social media how its best used for maximum impact and share recommendations for adoption that will leverage social media to accomplish museum goals.
• identify ways to empower audiences to contribute to a national dialogue on African American history and culture leveraging micro moments annual commemorations and historical milestones that will encourage reflection and discussion connecting to the museums collection programming and initiatives.

Conditions of employment

• Requires career/career-conditional status or eligibility.
• Males born after 12/31/59 must be registered with Selective Service.

Conditions of Employment

Qualification requirements including one year time-in-grade at the next lower grade level for promotion candidates must be met within 30 days of the job announcement closing date. See the Required Documents section for additional information.

For information on qualification requirements seeQualification Standards Handbook forGeneral Schedule Positionsviewable on OPM Website.

Qualifications

Basic Qualification: Experience that equipped the applicant with the knowledge skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled.

In addition to the basic qualification requirement above:

You qualify for this position if you have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-07 level in the Federal Service.For this position specialized experience is defined asdemonstrated experienceusing multiple social media platforms and applications for a museum blog educational or cultural institution; participating in the development of social media content partnerships and strategies; and using digital platforms to tell engaging stories on real-time live video platforms.

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.

Part-time and/or unpaid experiencerelated to this position will be considered to determine the total number of years and months of experience. Be sure to note the number of paid or unpaid hours worked each week.

Or Education:Two full years of progressively higher levelgraduate education leading to a masters orequivalent degree related to the position may besubstituted to meet the experience requirements.

Or a Combination:Education and experience may be combined to meet the basic a full explanation of this option please see theQualification Standards.

Special Instructions for Foreign Education: If you are qualifying by education and/or you have education completed in a foreign college/university described above it is your responsibility to provide transcripts and proof of U.S. accreditation for foreign study. For instructions on where to fax these documents see the Required Documents section of this announcement.

In aneffort to streamline our hiring process SI employees whose current position of record is in the same job series (1035) and who are in a Federal competitive service appointmentas this advertised position are not required to submit a transcript with your application package. However if selected you will be required to provide a copy of your transcript before your start date in the position.

Time-in-Grade Requirements: Under competitive merit promotion procedures anyindividual who is currently holding or who has held within the previous 52 weeks a GeneralSchedule position under a non-temporary appointment in the competitive or excepted servicemust meet time-in-grade requirements (have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade of thegrade for which you are applying).