Public Information Specialist - Parks and Recreation

About This Position

Come work for one of Arizona's top employers as named by Forbes in 2024! As a Public Information Specialist for the City of Phoenix, you'll work in a vibrant, growing city that is now the 5th largest in the country alongside a dynamic team of talented communications professionals. This engaging role is responsible for facilitating the communication and marketing needs for the Parks and Recreation Department and assists other departments as assigned. This position reports to a Public Information Officer in the Communications Office.

The Parks and Recreation Department provides residents and visitors more than 41,000 acres of desert parks and mountain preserve land with more than 200 miles of trails; 187 parks; 33 community and recreation centers; eight golf courses; 29 pools where thousands cool off and learn to swim each summer; and classes, programs, and sports leagues where kids and adults learn, stay active and have fun!

Responsibilities include media relations, researching, writing, and editing public relations and marketing materials, creating marketing campaigns, social media and web content creation and management, video production, internal and external collateral creation and more, with high importance placed on reaching Spanish-speaking residents.

This job is eligible for hybrid teleworking options and generally works traditional business hours, with occasional evenings and weekends based on City needs. Bilingual candidates with fluency in either written and/or conversational Spanish are encouraged to apply.

IDEAL CANDIDATE

• Possesses the ability to take complex government and procedural processes and put them into a written or visual form easily understood by residents, business owners, visitors or others seeking information from phoenix.gov. This requires strong skills in the creation and execution of a multi-platform social media campaign including creating different assets for various platforms, video creation, and Canva or other graphic creation software.
• The ability to provide analytics against KPIs to ensure success of social media communication strategy is desired.
  
  
  

SALARY

Pay Range: $64,604.80 - $95,451.20 annually.

Hiring Range: $64,604.80 - $86,590.40 annually.

Pay Range Explanation

• Pay range is the entire compensation range for the position classification.
• Hiring range is an estimate of where you can receive an offer. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, training, and internal equity.
  
  
  

Benefits

A comprehensive benefits package is offered which includes:

• Traditional pension with employer and employee contributions, click here for more details: Pension Information .
• 401(a) and 457 plans with employer contributions.
• Choice of generous medical HMO, PPO, or HSA/HDHP plans.
• Medical enrollment includes a monthly $150 City contribution to a Post-Employment Health Plan.
• Wellness incentive of up to $720 annually.
• Dental, vision, and life insurance options.
• Employer paid long-term disability.
• Free Bus/light rail pass.
• Tuition reimbursement program up to $6,500 per year.
• Paid time off includes 13.5 paid holidays, 12 vacation days, and 15 sick days and personal leave days.
• Paid Parental Leave for eligible employees up to 480 hours (12 weeks) of paid leave for the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child during a 12-month period.
• Federal Student Loan Forgiveness offered through Savi .
  
  
  

For more details, visit: Unit 007 Benefits

Minimum Qualifications

• Three years of experience in journalism, mass media communications, or public relations.
• Bachelor's degree in journalism, mass media communications, public relations, advertising, marketing, or a related field.
• Other combinations of experience and education that meet the minimum requirements may be substituted.
• The City job description can be found here .
• All finalists for positions are subject to a criminal background check applicable to the department or position.
• Some positions require the use of personal or City vehicles on City business. Individuals must be physically capable of operating the vehicles safely, possess a valid driver's license and have an acceptable driving record. Use of a personal vehicle for City business will be prohibited if the employee is not authorized to drive a City vehicle or if the employee does not have personal insurance coverage.
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Preferred Qualifications

The minimum qualifications listed above, plus:

• Experience with basic graphic design, and tools such as Canva.
• Experience working with traditional (television and print) media.
• Experience with creating digital media content for web, social, etc.
• Experience filming/editing/producing video content.
• Experience capturing, interpreting, sharing, and making decisions using web or social analytics.
• Bilingual (Spanish) professional communication proficiency.
  
  
  

RECRUITMENT DATES

Recruitment closes October 15, 2024. All materials must be received by 11:59 p.m. on this date.

This recruitment and any interview process as a result of this recruitment may be used by multiple hiring managers and multiple departments throughout the City to fill any related current or future vacancies; other recruitments and appropriate eligible lists may also be considered.

How To Apply

Apply online by completing the required information and attaching, as one document, your cover letter and resume. Please include your experience as it relates to the qualifications stated above. Only the highest qualified may be posted to the eligible to hire list. The results of the resume screening process will be sent to your primary email address.

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REFERENCE

Public Information Specialist, JC:06420, ID# 55903 10/08/24, 3 mos., MR, Benefits:007

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