Duties

Summary

The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) plays a critical role in facilitating regional economic development efforts in communities across the nation. EDA is seeking quality job applicants under special hiring authority provided under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. These positions are located in our Headquarters.

After the closing date, applicants can still submit resumes to: EDACAREER@EDA.GOV

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Responsibilities

• Assess, improve and enhance existing social media strategy and engagement efforts and identify and plan stakeholder engagement to new groups and audiences.
  
• Develop monthly reports on emerging social media trends that will be submitted to the management and executive teams.
  
• Design build and lead cross-functional social media campaigns including scope, parameters, key performance indicators, measurement, and evaluations.
  
• Monitor EDA's social media accounts and offer constructive interaction with users.
  
• Determine relevant key performance indicators and devise a strategy for regularly reporting against them.
  
• Identify opportunities to influence public perception through audience engagement and publicly speaking about the brand's social media strategy.
  

Travel Required

Not required

Supervisory status
No

Promotion Potential
13 - Position is at the full performance level.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Must be suitable for Federal employment.
• Must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable (www.sss.gov).

See "Qualifications section.

Qualifications

Qualification requirements in this vacancy announcement are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualifications available on the OPM's website located at: https//www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/ .

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, Americorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 level in the Federal Service. Experience for this position includes:

• Overseeing day-to-day social campaign management to create consistent and meaningful content on all social media platforms, including writing and editing social media posts, improving customer engagement, and promoting social media campaigns.
• Assessing, improving and enhancing existing social media strategies and engagement efforts to identify and plan stakeholder engagement to new groups and audiences.
• Utilizing a wide range of electronic communication techniques across the Internet, to include Web sites and social media outlets, as well as the benefits and limitations of each means of communication.

Education

There is no educational requirements for this position.

Additional information

Background Investigation: This position is designated as Non-sensitive/Low Risk and requires that a background investigation be conducted and favorably adjudicated in order to establish security eligibility.

Please note this position is being filled under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Employees will be hired under EDA's CARES Hiring Authority as a Schedule A employee under the Excepted Service for a period not-to-exceed two (2) years.

The salary is contingent upon the official duty location which an employee is hired for and will be determined based upon individual selections.

Veterans' preference is not applicable to this position.

Please DO NOT put your SSN on pages within your application package. Privacy Act - Privacy Act Notice (PL 93-579): The information requested here is used to determine qualifications for employment and is authorized under Title 5 U.S.C. 3302 and 3361.

Signature - Before you are hired, you will be required to sign and certify the accuracy of the information in your application.

Selective Service - If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, you must certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System or are exempt from having to do so under the Selective Service Law.

How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

See "Qualifications section.

The competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities needed to perform this job are:

• Audio, Visual, and Multimedia product development
• Written Communication
• Social Media
• Project Management

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Background checks and security clearance

Security clearance
Not Required

Drug test required
No

Position sensitivity and risk
Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk

Trust determination process
Credentialing , Suitability/Fitness

Required Documents

See "How to Apply" section.

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education .

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.