Description
Has oversight for the preparation, processing, and distribution of information to the media and the public. Researches and writes major press releases of announcements from Institution Officers. Plans and organizes media coverage for major events. Plans and organizes the preparation of all press releases, memoranda to assignment editors, and backgrounders. Provides news information services for the media and the public; responds to requests on issues of a sensitive or controversial nature. Communicates with media to obtain coverage of Institution events. Supplies in-house organizations with press releases, photographs, background materials. This is a top departmental position for media relations. Education and Experience: Bachelor degree and 8 or more years journalism/public relations experience. The primary duty of employees in this classification is the management of a customarily recognized department or subdivision, including the supervision of three or more full-time equivalent employees every week. Direction is over a permanent status-continuing function, not a collection of employees assigned to complete a project. Management duties include interviewing, selecting and training of employees; setting and adjusting their rates of pay and hours of work; planning and directing their work; appraising their productivity and efficiency for the purpose of recommending promotions or other changes in their status; handling their complaints and grievances and disciplining them when necessary. Management responsibilities include the authority to hire, fire, or promote assigned employees or make recommendations that are given particular weight. Employees have impact on budgeting, controlling costs, planning, scheduling, and procedural change. Under FLSA, this is the exempt job classification for this title. Incumbents in this position must meet the full criteria for exempt status: salary level, salary basis, and duties tests.