HunaTek is seeking a Communications Specialist to support our government customer. As a Communications Specialist, you will be responsible for the outreach, coordination, and execution of OEM outreach events, seminars, webinars and coordination of other digital assets. This position is contingent on contract award. Essential Job Functions: * The position serves as a digital outreach specialist with the responsibility for supporting the distribution and accessibility to web-based materials across the full range of emergency preparedness topics which communicate the organization's programs, policies, and activities via the web. * Efforts include the coordination and execution of OEM outreach events/seminars/webinars as well as the coordination of other digital assets such as SharePoint site, social media, and video. * Advise Team Lead on Digital Strategy, opportunities within the digital landscape, and the Division's ability to effectively communicate therein. * Develop emergency preparedness products, activities, and outreach events that engage Department employees by providing valuable emergency planning and preparedness information in the new digital age and telework environment. * Prepare and design publications to help ensure PPD provides timely and appropriate domestic notification and emergency preparedness guidance among the various Department domestic offices. * Collaborate with PPD teams and appropriate emergency preparedness authorities to create digital information and awareness to disseminate emergency preparedness information through the Department's domestic footprint. * Implement new, innovative approaches to delivering and enhancing the domestic preparedness culture in the virtual environment. * Enable PPD to effectively amplify, expand, and reinforce emergency preparedness awareness messages through the strategic use of new media technologies. * Must be able to understand the full spectrum of emergency preparedness topics, issues, and priorities, work with detailed documents and at the macro level. Analyze and discuss topics and work closely with other PPD teams to advise functional and regional bureaus and offices in how to best get their messages out to targeted and varied audiences. * Ensure that content is current, accurate and accessible, support "Plain Language" by reviewing documents and postings to ensure clarity and reduce ambiguity. * Work with relevant emergency preparedness authorities to ensure editorial integrity, accuracy, reliability of emergency preparedness information posted to the Department's official public-facing ePrepare site, including, but not limited to, OEM's SharePoint and related sites as reliable, authentic resources of emergency preparedness information. * Coordinate with relevant emergency preparedness authorities to ensure OEM's official websites are updated before and after a disaster or emergency to ensure audiences have swift access to current emergency preparedness information. * Be familiar with the latest technologies and content strategies. * Advise the Team Lead of new and emerging information dissemination technologies that support bureau and Department goals of informing Department employees on emergency preparedness information. * Ensure that relevant and evolving laws, regulations, and guidelines are followed, and that all material posted is compliant with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, privacy laws, and other website conventions. * Participate in intra- and interagency web-related initiatives, such as federal web manager and communicator groups, to support consistency in approach, leverage of resources, and sharing of information both across Federal Government and within the Department. * Assist with the coordination and execution of Outreach Team efforts to include site visits to Department facilities to facilitate training and the distribution of emergency preparedness information. * Will be assigned to Incident Management Team (IMT) and other watch-stander type duties as required. Skills and Qualifications Required: * Bachelor's Degree or Five Years of Relevant Experience
* Expert writing skills and ability to write under pressure with short deadlines
* Proficiency in MS Office Suite products
* Expert knowledge of emergency management preparedness and response planning methodologies and the planning lifecycle necessary to develop plans and programs to help mobilize personnel, equipment, and facilities for responses to a variety of emergency management initiatives
* Expert knowledge of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods and procedures to conduct in-depth research, evaluate alternatives, and develop analysis of homeland security and national emergency management policies/regulation to facilitate decision-making and propose new approaches to carrying out program initiatives
* Expert knowledge to develop, critically review, coordinate, and synchronize Departmental and interagency plans and strategies with other domestic Department strategy plans
* Expert project management skills to develop and manage key project management elements
* Expert knowledge of general emergency management concepts
* Knowledge of national level policy, including the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006; Executive Order (E.O.) 12656, Assignment of Emergency Preparedness Responsibilities; National Exercise Program; National Security Presidential Memoranda; and the National Preparedness System.
* Security requirement - Secret Our employee's health and safety is our top priority. We encourage employees to remain up to date on their COVID-19 vaccinations. Pursuant to future court decisions and/or government actions on the contractor vaccine mandate under Executive Order 14042, HunaTek employees may be required in the future to be vaccinated or have an approved disability/medical or religious accommodation. Shareholder Hire Preference As an ANCSA owned company, HunaTek is allowed, under Federal law, to extend hiring and training preference to Huna Totem shareholders, shareholders' descendants, shareholders' spouses, other ANCSA shareholders, and/or Native Americans. When a shareholder candidate meets the qualifications stated in the position description for a position being recruited, the shareholder will be given preference over non-shareholder candidates with the same qualifications. ADA: HunaTek will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. EEO/AA: HunaTek does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, height, weight, or marital status in employment or the provision of services and is an equal access/equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.