PAY BENEFITS & WORK SCHEDULE
Salary Range: Up to $196,000 Series & Grade: DISES, Tier 2 Position Information: Full-Time ' Excepted Service Duty Location: Fort Meade, MD Who May Apply: U.S. Citizens Security Clearance: Top Secret with Special Background Investigation Supervisory Status: Yes Job Summary: Serve as Director of Strategic Communications for the National Security Agency (NSA). NSA was founded in 1952 as the Nation's cryptologic agency. Travel Required: Occasional travel; must be available for occasional travel in connection with assigned duties and have the ability to work extended hours and holidays when circumstances demand. Relocation Authorized: Yes Key Requirements: Must be a U.S. Citizen; background investigation is required.
POSITION SUMMARY
Leaders at the National Security Agency motivate, support, and cultivate employees at all levels. Leaders at the NSA, where people are a priority, are responsible for leveraging the diversity of their workforce to create innovative solutions that support the Agency's mission. This senior leadership position leads the NSA Strategic Communications program and is a direct advisor to the Director of NSA and the Board of Directors and is responsible for developing strategies and products to disseminate key messages to the internal workforce, members of the media, the general public and other interested stakeholders. The incumbent will be the principal architect of external outreach designed to meet the Agency's goal of building public Trust and Confidence in NSA. In addition, the incumbent will: - Serve as the primary National Security Agency (NSA) spokesperson. - Lead a workforce of government and contractor personnel and effectively coordinate the work of others across a broad range of agency services to achieve desired outcomes. - Oversee the team that conducts the daily operations of media relations, internal communications, and public outreach to ensure NSA effectively communicates and targets key information to the media, the NSA workforce, external stakeholders, general public and other key audiences. - Direct the work of state-of-the-art graphics, production, live events photography, web design and audio/visual teams. - Plan, direct and oversee NSA's public web presence and communications outreach, keeping NSA communications at the leading edge of effective, high impact approaches and technologies. - Direct and continually refine the maximum efficiency and effect end-to-end media-related processes and procedures. - Develop and execute innovative ways to keep NSA leadership and key personnel informed of open source media matters, especially during crisis and contingency circumstances. - Counsel and advise the NSA senior leadership team on all matters with respect to public engagement with a bias toward a proactive media approach. - Develop, sustain and mature working relationships with public affairs counterparts across government. - Liaise and collaborate with public affairs staff across the Intelligence Community to integrate communications initiatives. - Provide advice to professional staff, evaluate performance, collaborate on goal setting, and provide feedback and guidance regarding personal and professional development opportunities. - Manage, oversee and justify requirements for Strategic Communications personnel, contractual, security, logistics, acquisition and budget. - Develop, present and execute a comprehensive, integrated communications strategy and budget, supported by measurable goals and objectives. - Provide expert knowledge and personnel to support the development and execution of media training for the NSA workforce. Develop and sustain a diverse cadre of personnel in a cross section of NSA organizations who are qualified to represent NSA in direct media engagements. - Perform all duties in a manner fully consistent with the law, richly supportive of equal opportunity and with an unwavering commitment to the protection of privacy and civil liberties.
HOW TO APPLY
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