PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIALIST

PUBLIC AFFAIRS SPECIALIST

Department of the Army Army Nional Guard Units

MDNG-JFHQ

Summary

THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION.

This Nional Guard position is for a

PUBLIC AFFAIRS

SPECIALIST, Position Description Number D1168000 and is part of the MD JFHQ, Nional Guard. This is an indefinite position th may become permanent without further competition. See "Additional Informion" section of the announcement for further details. Learn more about this agency Summary

THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 32 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION.

This Nional Guard position is for a

PUBLIC AFFAIRS

SPECIALIST, Position Description Number D1168000 and is part of the MD JFHQ, Nional Guard. This is an indefinite position th may become permanent without further competition. See "Additional Informion" section of the announcement for further details. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted this week

• Apply by 06/26/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 26, 2026 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Baltimore, MD 1 vacancy No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $85,447
• $111,087 per year Pay scale & grade GS 11 Promotion potential None Learn more about pay scale and grade Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Occasional travel
• You may be expected to travel for this position.

Appointment type Multiple Occupions and job series 1035 Public Affairs Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Excepted Service Represented by a union No Drug test No Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk Jobs require a background check and some require a security clearance . The type depends on the job. Background check type Suitability/Fitness Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number

MD-12983728-AR-26-095

Control number 872705000 This job is open to Help Nional Guard and reserves Current members, those who want to join or transitioning military members. Clarificion from the agency This position is open to current Maryland Army Nional Guard members only. Duties Help The primary purpose of the position is to assist the ste's Public Affairs (PA) Officer the stregic and operional level, with particular emphasis on developing segments of more compliced or sensitive communicions campaigns and executing the Nional Guard Bureau's (NGB's) communicion objectives. This position performs the following duties: Assists the Public Affairs Officer in the formulion of long-range plans and policies to enhance public understanding, support and acceptance of Public Affairs programs and/or activities stewide. Researches and develops informional merials and complete communicion campaigns for release to audiences through electronic and newspaper media. Prepared merials explain or describe the mission of the NG, NG accomplishments, policies, programs or actions taken to ensure the NG's compliance with ste and federal regulory requirements. Written merials include news releases, display advertisements, fact sheets, feure stories, background stements, special reports, etc. Coordines the analysis of response da on communicion campaign effectiveness with programs managers. Responds to media requests for informion of both a routine and controversial nure. Prepares or assembles informion kits, edits informional merials drafted by subordine public affairs specialists or unit UPAR's, releases photographs and/or feure stories to the news media, coordines media interviews with NG subject mter experts and arranges photographic and electronic media coverage of newsworthy NG events. Maintains close working relionships with officials of various civic, media and community groups and Department of Defense personnel, as well as ste and nional government officials outside the NG. Provides training to UPAR's on PA program policies, practices and processes. Coordines and evalues the effectiveness of training and training merials and develops recommendions for program enhancement. Reviews all press releases, feure stories, background stements, special reports, etc., developed by UPARs, prior to their release to the media. Crees new or adapts or modifies accepted communicion campaign forms to reach a target audience with a specific message. The selection of a communicion campaign form is based on an analysis of targeted audience demographics and message content. After an informional campaign has been implemented, solicited and unsolicited response da is ghered to assess campaign effectiveness in reaching the target audience. If the campaign's results do not meet expections, the incumbent identifies issues of concern, develops alternives and after discussing these with the approprie administrive personal, implements the most approprie option. Performs other duties as assigned. Requirements Help Conditions of employment This position is only open to current members of the Maryland Army Nional Guard. This is an excepted service position th requires membership in a compible military assignment in the employing ste's Nional Guard, required prior to the effective de of placement. Selectee required to wear the military uniform. Acceptance of an excepted service position constitutes concurrence with these requirements as a condition of employment. Applicants who are not currently a member of the Nional Guard must be eligible for immedie membership and employment in the Nional Guard in the military grade listed in this announcement. Males born after 31 December 1959 must be registered for Selective Service. Federal employment suitability as determined by a background investigion. May be required to successfully complete a probionary period. Participion in direct deposit is mandory. Must be able to obtain and maintain the approprie security clearance of the position within one year of appointment.

Qualificions Military Grades :

Enlisted:

E1

• E9

Warrant:

WO1

• CW5

Officer:

O1

• O3 GENERAL

EXPERIENCE

: Experience, educion or training in administrive, professional, investigive and/or technical work. Experience evaluing informion and/or using analytical skills to dissemine effective communicion. Experience in compiling reports, letters, memoranda, etc., and required person-to-person contacts to convey informion. Experience using computers and automion systems.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE

: Experience, educion, or training involving a thorough knowledge of writing and communicion principles, methods and techniques th rele to public affairs of the military. Experience developing new informion merials including news releases, fact sheets, brochures, booklets, broadcast spots, etc., th increase communicion with the agency's audiences. Experience making on-the-spot presentions to audiences with opposing points of view or erroneous understanding of agency positions. Experience responding timely and appropriely to requests for informion concerning agency programs and services. Length of time is not of itself qualifying. Candides' experience should be evalued on the basis of duties performed rher than strictly on the rank of the individual; however, established compibility criteria/assignments must be followed. The applicant's record of experience and/or training must show possession of the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to fully perform the duties of the position. Educion You must provide transcripts or other documention to support your Educional claims. To receive credit for Educion, you must provide documention of proof th you meet the Educion requirements for this position. Additional informion We may use this announcement to fill additional vacancies within 180 days of the closing de. This position MAY be eligible for recruitment or relocion incentives, pending availability of funding and management request. This position is in the Excepted Service and does NOT convey eligibility to be converted to the Competitive Service. This is an obliged position; the selectee will receive an indefinite appointment (Tenure 3). This position is intended NTE 31-DEC-2026, but may be extended as needed by the agency. If a Reduction-In-Force occurs and/or the obliged employee exercises reemployment right to this position, the indefinite appointee will have no reemployment rights to any other position and may be separed. If the obliged employee, having reemployment rights to this position, does not exercise his/her reemployment rights, this position may be converted to a permanent stus without further competition. If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorizion Act of 1986 requires th you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency ( Register |

Selective Service System :

Selective Service System (sss.gov) ). Expand Hide additional informion Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. How you evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. Once the announcement has closed, your resume and supporting documention used to determine if you meet the qualificions listed on this announcement. If you are minimally qualified, your resume and supporting documention compared to your responses on the assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience. If you re yourself higher than is supported by your applicion package, your responses may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from considerion for this position. If you are found to be among the top qualified candides, you referred to the selecting official for employment considerion. Your qualificions evalued on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics): Public Affairs Policies and Procedures Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered. Required documents Required Documents Help To apply for this position, you must submit a complete Applicion Package which includes: 1.

Your resume showing:

Contact Informion-your name and the best way to contact you. Relevant work experience-include the employer's name, job title, start and end des (month/year), the number of hours worked per week and describe how you meet the required qualificions of the job. Federal jobs should include series and grade. Educion, certificions or licensures. 2. Other supporting documents : If you are a current Federal Employee, please submit your most current non-award SF-50 when applying. If selected, failure to submit this documention may affect your pay and/or delay your appointment. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help To apply for this position, you must complete the online applicion/Occupional Questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. To view the Occupional Questionnaire, click the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12983728 A complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. To begin, click Apply to access the online applicion. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to cree one before beginning the applicion. Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your applicion package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your applicion before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. After acknowledging you have reviewed your applicion package, complete the Include Personal Informion section as you deem approprie and click to continue with the applicion process . You taken to the online applicion which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online applicion, verify the required documention is included with your applicion package, and submit the applicion. To verify the stus of your applicion, log into your USAJOBS account ( https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login ), all of your applicions will appear on the Welcome screen. The Applicion Stus will appear along with the de your applicion was last upded. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, : https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/applicion/stus/ . Agency contact informion Adam Corson Phone 6678874002 adam.corson.2@us.af.mil Address MD JFHQ Joint Forces Headquarters Baltimore, MD 21201 US Next steps Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. Your applicion evalued by the Human Resources Office to determine your eligibility for the position. After the evaluion is complete, you will receive another notificion regarding the stus of your applicion. Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help To apply for this position, you must submit a complete Applicion Package which includes: 1.

Your resume showing:

Contact Informion-your name and the best way to contact you. Relevant work experience-include the employer's name, job title, start and end des (month/year), the number of hours worked per week and describe how you meet the required qualificions of the job. Federal jobs should include series and grade. Educion, certificions or licensures. 2. Other supporting documents : If you are a current Federal Employee, please submit your most current non-award SF-50 when applying. If selected, failure to submit this documention may affect your pay and/or delay your appointment. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help To apply for this position, you must complete the online applicion/Occupional Questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. To view the Occupional Questionnaire, click the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12983728 A complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing de of the announcement to receive considerion. To begin, click Apply to access the online applicion. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to cree one before beginning the applicion. Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your applicion package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your applicion before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. After acknowledging you have reviewed your applicion package, complete the Include Personal Informion section as you deem approprie and click to continue with the applicion process . You taken to the online applicion which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online applicion, verify the required documention is included with your applicion package, and submit the applicion. To verify the stus of your applicion, log into your USAJOBS account ( https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login ), all of your applicions will appear on the Welcome screen. The Applicion Stus will appear along with the de your applicion was last upded. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, : https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/applicion/stus/ . Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Adam Corson Phone 6678874002 adam.corson.2@us.af.mil Address MD JFHQ Joint Forces Headquarters Baltimore, MD 21201 US Next steps Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. Your applicion evalued by the Human Resources Office to determine your eligibility for the position. After the evaluion is complete, you will receive another notificion regarding the stus of your applicion. Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted this week

• Apply by 06/26/26 Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 26, 2026 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Baltimore, MD 1 vacancy No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $85,447
• $111,087 per year Pay scale & grade GS 11 Promotion potential None Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Occasional travel
• You may be expected to travel for this position.

Appointment type Multiple Occupions and job series Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Excepted Service Represented by a union No Drug test No Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Jobs require a and some require a . The type depends on the job. Background check type Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number

MD-12983728-AR-26-095

Control number 872705000