THE CITY OF CLEARWATER IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
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Position Description
TARGET ENTRY SALARY: $129,144 – $167,888 DEPENDING ON QUALIFICATIONS
Under the direction of the City Manager’s office, the Public Communications Director is responsible for leading the Public Communications Department and maintaining a management framework that supports the City’s strategic direction in sustainable manner.
Duties and Responsibilities
Essential Functions: – Essential functions, as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include any of the following representative duties, knowledge, and skills. Essential duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Providing expectations, leadership, and guidance to all direct reports.
- Maintaining a departmental strategic plan which is consistent with the strategic direction of the city.
- Coordinating with other members of the Senior Executive Team to ensure that departmental operations and strategies are consistent with the City’s strategic direction, charter, policies and procedures, and ordinances.
- Coordinates with external stakeholders to support operations and long-term strategies.
- Participation in long and short-term strategic planning both at the departmental and city levels.
- Maintaining a culture of accountability within the department.
- Ensures that reports, documents, and presentations before City Council and advisory boards are accurate and appropriate.
- Management of a departmental administrative framework that is consistent with and supportive of city-wide administrative activities including but not limited to preparation of annual budget, personnel matters, and the keeping of public records.
- Defines, evaluates, and communicates project milestones, service level agreements, and resource allocation to executive team, department leads, support staff, and end users.
- Prioritizes and schedules work assignments for assigned staff; manages the recruitment, hiring, and termination of all department staff; provides performance evaluations, feedback, and possible discipline.
- Must work the necessary schedule to meet the requirements of the position.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
Licenses, Certifications, and Equipment:
A valid State driver’s license is required.
Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Business Administration, Marketing, Advertising, Public Relations, or related field and eight (8) years of professional-level communications management experience; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience may be considered.
Supplemental Information
Knowledge Skills Abilities
Knowledge of –
- Best practices in creating a healthy organizational culture
- Principles and practices of public communications management to include professional journalism, marketing, advertising, print, graphic, electronic, television broadcast development, production, and editing
- Administrative practices and general management principles
- City organizations, operations, and resources
- Principles and practices of public administration
- Personnel management and supervisory techniques
Skill in –
- Creating and maintaining an organizational culture
- Engaging with the public and determining public perception
- Formulating, proofreading, and editing news releases, scripts and information material
- Personnel Management
- Managing a large, multi-site organization with a varied set of programs and responsibilities
- Establishing and maintaining good collaborative relationships
- Effective internal and external communications
- Policy and data analysis
- Preparing and creating various presentations
- Employee mentorship
- Change management
- Operating a computer and generalized software
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