Anticipated Hiring Range: $72,900 - $87,500
Benefits: This position is benefits eligible. Please view our benefits guide here.
The Public Information Officer is responsible for developing and providing public release of information to local and national media. Seeks opportunities for community engagement by Police across the diversity of the city and coordinates those opportunities with other units if required. Develops, implements, and manages social media efforts of the Greeley Police Department.
Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Education:
Minimum Requirements
- One (1) to Three (3) years of professional experience in social media and related technologies including use of communication tools such as Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, etc.
- One (1) to Three (3) years professional experience in public speaking.
- One (1) to Three (3) years’ experience with Word, Excel, Photoshop, Adobe Creative Cloud, Illustrator, and WordPress.
- One (1) to Three (3) years’ experience in the regulations, laws, and strategic circumstances of the release of law enforcement-related information.
- Valid driver’s license with good driving record.
OR
- Any combination of related education, experience, certifications, and licenses will result in a candidate successfully performing the essential functions of the job.
Preferred
- Bilingual in Spanish and English, highly desired.
- Degree in journalism, communications, public relations, marketing, or related field; BA/BS desired.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Ability to respond to police-related scenes and functions to assist in public relations/information
- Knowledge of regulations, laws, and strategic circumstances of the release of law enforcement-related information.
- Excellent command of the English language including grammar, spelling, and punctuation; ability to effectively proofread own and other's work.
- Knowledge of and good understanding of mobile applications.
- Knowledge of the business and organizational structure of Colorado municipalities.
- Collaboration skills, including the ability to work with others from different areas and backgrounds to reach a common goal.
- Strong oral, written, and listening communication skills, including the ability to accurately interpret what others are saying and convey messages, information, concepts, and details accurately and clearly.
- Ability to manage webpage.
- Computer skills, including the ability to utilize Microsoft Office programs (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.) and learn and experiment with new software and systems.
- Interpersonal skills, including the ability to facilitate interaction, communication, and teamwork between others.
- Organizational skills, including the ability to set and meet goals and deadlines, manage appointments, create schedules, coordinate, and facilitate meetings, and make decisions.
- Ability to work under pressure, manage multiple concurrent and competing tasks and responsibilities, and adapt to changing priorities while maintaining personal effectiveness.
- Ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, and stay on task when completing special projects and daily assignments.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and reliable professional judgment, as well as collaboratively with a team to achieve desired results.
- Ability to maintain a strong work ethic, positive problem-solving attitude, and enthusiasm for the work performed.
Essential Functions:
- Develops media strategies, draft press releases, and media summaries for Police.
- Serves as agency spokesperson on all matters relating to public information.
- Communicates using proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
- Conducts press interviews with local, regional, and national news representatives as required.
- Manages media requests in a timely manner.
- Writes effective content with clarity and consistency, edits, and performs media relations using current industry best practices, with minimal supervision.
- Maintains positive relationships with media outlets.
- Corrects errors in media coverage of Greeley.
- Develops, manages, and maintains the social media outreach of Police.
- Maintains and modifies GPD webpage content.
- Designs visual communications via graphic design and photography for use in social media.
- Develops and maintains an understanding of police policy and procedure.
- Selects and supervises members of the Department who perform duties to further the external social media communication efforts.
- Manges webpage.
- Performs other duties:
- CIRT response, Annual report, Assist BWC management, Website updates, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Next door, Scheduling posts, Recruitment assistance, videos, content, and pictures.
Work Environment and Physical Requirements:
- Ability to respond to police-related scenes and functions to assist in public relations/information.
- Available to be called in for critical police-related incidents.
- Work is structured with established instructions and procedures
- Frequent and heavy contact with the public and employees in person and by telephone
- Employee may be asked to drive personal vehicle for business purposes
- Employee is subject to working alone and/or with groups and/or attending meetings
- Employee spends extended periods of time at a fixed workstation
- Employee may be required to conduct business in alternate locations within City buildings, sometimes in formal settings
- Employee may be required to work overtime, holidays, evenings, shifts, or weekends
- Employee may have frequent interruptions and be required to manage competing priorities while having inflexible deadlines
- Employee may have frequent contact with the public--in person, via email/telephone; and may experience adverse or confrontational situations with internal/external customers
- Employee is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions; work performed is sedentary, generally in an office environment
- Environment is safe to having minimal hazards that are typically found in general office environment where there is rarely little or no exposure to injury or accident
- Requires the ability to manage competing priorities with frequent interruptions
- Communication skills enough to hear and convey information to/from the public via telephone and in person.
- Operate standard office equipment requiring continuous or repetitive hand/arm movements.
- Vision enough to interpret computer screens and documents to assist the public and complete work assignments; Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
- Manual dexterity enough to accurately input, retrieve, and verify work assignments; employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.
- Duties may occasionally include light to moderate physical effort that includes frequent standing or walking; frequently lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds and occasionally lifting and/or moving up to 25 pounds; maintaining arms and hands in the same position for repetitive tasks and frequently working with light objects and light hand tools.
- Extensive work is performed on a computer with repetitive data entry and 10-key calculations; work is primarily performed at a desk.
Supervisory Responsibilities
- N/A
- No supervisory responsibilities
Travel
- This position may require up to 50% of travel on occasions.
EOE Statement: The City of Greeley provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
ADA Statement: We are committed to an inclusive and barrier-free search process. We provide accommodations for applicants requesting accommodation through the search process such as alternative formats of this posting. Individuals with disabilities in need of accommodations throughout the search process should contact the ADA Coordinator at: HR@Greeleygov.com .
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