Supervisory Public Affairs Specialist (Direct Hire)

Duties

• Manages change within and outside the organization. Establishes an organization vision and implements the vision in a continuously changing environment.
• Leads people toward meeting the organization’s vision, mission, and goals. Provides an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts.
• Achieves organizational goals and customer expectations through decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks.
• Assists the director in managing human, financial, and information resources strategically to meet organizational goals and objectives.
• Assists the director in formulating, preparing, and defending budget and manpower requests to ensure that future objectives of NASA communication goals can be obtained within allocated resources.
• Builds coalitions internally and with other federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals.
• Oversees the official Agency spokespersons routinely engaged in interviews, television spokesperson duties and commentary, training subject matter experts, and crisis communications.
• Assists locational Center organizations in developing and implementing comprehensive communication plans that comply with NASA Procedural Requirements, NASA Space Flight Program and Project Management Requirements.
• Responsible for compliance with standards, orders, rules, and regulations applicable to occupational safety, health, environmental, and energy within the area of responsibility.
• Leads employees in the areas of media relations, public affairs, stakeholder relations, executive communications, internal relations and digital communications and can act as an expert in these areas.
• Performs a full range of supervisory duties which includes assigning and evaluating work; recommending personnel actions; taking disciplinary actions; and identifying training needs and developing employees.
• Fosters a culture of engagement, diversity, inclusiveness, excellence and innovation. Champions NASA’s commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility to create an environment that promotes a commitment to safety, integrity and teamwork.