GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS CONSULTANT III - 40046207 1
State of Florida - Tallahassee, FL
posted 16 days ago
About the position
The Government Operations Consultant III is in the Department of Commerce, Office of Long-Term Resiliency (OLTR). This position performs communications and outreach responsibilities as it relates to OLTR and its many disaster resiliency programs and initiatives. The Office of Long-Term Resiliency (OLTR) supports communities following disasters by addressing long-term recovery needs for housing, infrastructure, and economic development. FloridaCommerce is the governor-designated state authority responsible for administering all United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) long-term recovery funds awarded to the state. The state of Florida has been allocated federal funding to support long-term disaster recovery through the Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery Program (CDBG-DR). CDBG-DR funding is designed to address housing, infrastructure, economic development, and mitigation needs that remain after other assistance has been exhausted, including federal assistance as well as private insurance.
Responsibilities
- Media Relations: Assist Florida Commerce Office of Communications with responses to Office of Long-Term Resiliency media requests.
- Handle media inquiries, distributing office news to staff, drafting statements for internal and external communication.
- Writing, editing, and distributing program press releases, statements, correspondences, marketing materials, responses to communications and legislative requests.
- Plans and ensures that program communications products are current and appropriate.
- Prepares fact sheets or other written material for distribution.
- Assist with developing briefings for internal and external meetings through independent research.
- Explore opportunities to find new, appropriate strategies to share OLTR's mission with a diverse stakeholder audience.
- Update OLTR's webpage content to ensure accurate and timely improvement of content on the website.
- Provide technical assistance to program offices and their leads within the OLTR regarding webpage content, layout, and formatting.
- Actively monitor the OLTR's online news coverage and social media platforms.
- Create content for the department's social media pages and engage in responsive communication with the online community.
- Manage creation, production, editing, and dissemination of printed and electronic materials for internal education, program development, and external outreach.
- Draft and edit automated correspondence and notifications to program participants.
- Compile information for agency reports.
- Attend Resiliency meetings, conferences, and related public engagements on behalf of OLTR.
- Prepare and participate in program presentations and training.
- Assist with special projects as assigned.
Requirements
- Effective communication, both verbal and written, with a wide range of audiences.
- Knowledge of project management and business analyst concepts, techniques, methodologies, and practices.
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams and staff of all levels.
- Ability to lead group discussions and manage conflict to achieve meeting objectives.
- Ability to proactively identify problems and generate solutions.
- Ability to balance multiple priorities and quickly adjust to changing priorities.
- Ability to analyze organizational operating practices or procedures.
- Ability to communicate technical information.
- Ability to develop and revise policies, procedures, methods, or standards.
- Ability to direct and coordinate activities of workers or staff.
- Ability to make presentations.
- Ability to plan and organize work.
- Ability to prepare reports for management.
- Ability to use conflict resolution techniques.
- Strong customer service focus.
- Possess the technical knowledge as well as the verbal and writing skills needed to effectively communicate with staff and clients in a timely manner.
- Ability to properly use the rules of grammar and punctuation.
- Possess strong critical thinking skills.
Benefits
- State Group Insurance coverage options (health, life, dental, vision, and other supplemental options)
- Retirement plan options, including employer contributions
- Nine paid holidays and a Personal Holiday each year
- Annual and Sick Leave Benefits
- Student Loan Forgiveness Program (Eligibility required)
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Tuition Fee Waivers (Accepted by major Florida colleges/universities)
- Ongoing comprehensive training provided
- Career Growth
- Highly skilled, professional environment
