This position is located in the VOA's Russian Service, Eurasia Division, Voice of America within the United States Agency of Global Media. The focus of this position is to use social media to enhance the Voice of America Russian Service's online presence, increase audience reach and engagement, and improve the quality of reporting through the use of internet marketing, digital distribution networks, video production, and graphic design.
Summary
This position is located in the VOA's Russian Service, Eurasia Division, Voice of America within the United States Agency of Global Media. The focus of this position is to use social media to enhance the Voice of America Russian Service's online presence, increase audience reach and engagement, and improve the quality of reporting through the use of internet marketing, digital distribution networks, video production, and graphic design.
As a Digital Media Specialist (Russian), you will be responsible for duties to include, but are not limited to:
This position is located in the VOA's Russian Service, Eurasia Division, Voice of America within the United States Agency of Global Media. The focus of this position is to use social media to enhance the Voice of America Russian Service's online presence, increase audience reach and engagement, and improve the quality of reporting through the use of internet marketing, digital distribution networks, video production, and graphic design. YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Web, special programming, and live chat sessions.
Creates engaging digital content of multiple varieties (text, photos, graphics, video, and audio) for digital platforms, including explainers and Info graphs. Edits House/Stringer video reports. Develops social media distribution strategy on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis
Researches and analyzes available social and mobile media platforms. This includes Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, news aggregators, YouTube, and other emerging forms of digital media. Recommends appropriate methods to management on ways to reach and build audiences, either as single-track projects or in conjunction with TV, radio, or web programming.
Uses industry data to ensure the best selection of delivery methods and service providers for targeted audiences.
Applicants MUST be a Non-US citizen. Country of citizenship MUST be indicated on CV/resume.
This position may require working nights, weekends, and holidays.
Suitability Determination: If selected, you will be subject to a security investigation to establish your suitability for federal employment. The security investigation will include, among other aspects, a review of your credit and legal history.
Candidates MUST complete online questionnaire.
This is a sensitive or national security position. If selected, this position requires the completion of the SF-86.
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Qualifications
Screen out factor: Applicant must have fluency in both English and Russian languages that enables you to speak, read, write, report, and translate in both languages. This language screen out factor MUST be listed in your resume to receive consideration. Applicants must have a minimum of one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility comparable to the GS-11 or comparable pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private sector.
Specialized Experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position.
Experience reporting, writing, recording, editing, and producing news and feature broadcasts for posting on the Web and social media, for an established and respected news organization of national or international prominence;
Experience with designing, creating, manipulating and tailoring graphics, images, sound, animation, video and text to create integrated multimedia programs;
Knowledge of Russia's history, economics, culture, and socio-political development.
Education
Education is not required for this grade level. It cannot be used for qualification purposes.
Additional information
This vacancy is advertised under Excepted Service procedures and is open to all Non-U.S. citizens. U.S. citizen applicants MUST apply to DE-11918129-23-SG.
1. If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/59 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency. For Military Selective Service Act requirement information, please visit https://www.sss.gov.Selective Service
2. Your application to this vacancy announcement will only allow consideration for this announcement. We cannot electronically or manually move your application to corresponding announcements if applicable.
3. Additional vacancies not reflected in the announcement that occur after the opening date of the vacancy announcement for position(s) identical (same grade, series and title) to the original vacancy may be filled from the selection certificate during the validity of the certificate.
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How you will be evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Once your resume or application is submitted, a review of your qualifications will be made to ensure you meet the job requirements and competencies required for this position.
Competencies:
Journalism
Production
Social Media
Target Area
Possession of competencies may be address in a cover letter and/or resume. To determine if you are qualified for this job, a review of your resume and supporting documentation will be made.
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Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
All applicants are required to submit the following supporting document type(s):
Resume
Applicants may also submit the following supporting document type(s), which may not be required for all applicants.
Cover letter
Transcripts
Although the required documents listed in this announcement only indicates that a resume is required, other documents may be required in specific circumstances.
Education: If education is a requirement or there is an option to use education for qualification purposes, you must submit your unofficial transcripts with your application package at the time of applying or before the closing date of this vacancy announcement. If selected for the position, you will be required to submit official transcripts before your Enter on Duty date.
You are encouraged to apply online. Applying online will allow you to review and track the status of your application. If you cannot complete the Application Package online, please contact the Human Resource Specialist listed in this vacancy announcement.
To apply for this position, you must complete the occupational questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents and any appropriate Accepted Documents.
To begin, click Apply in the announcement; then, choose to create a new USAJOBS account or Sign-in into your existing account.
Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your application package.
You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your application before submitting it. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process.
After completing the questionnaire and uploading appropriate documents, click the Submit Application to submit your application package.
It is applicant's responsibility to verify that information entered in the profile is accurate and all required documents are uploaded and submitted before 11:59 PM (EST) on 04/28/2023 of the announcement to receive consideration.
Human Resources will not modify or change any part of your application. Resumes must be submitted in English. If a document is not in legible format, applicant will not be able to view it in Application Manager which means applicant must again upload the documentation to the system by the closing date of this announcement.
To verify your application is complete, log into your USAJOBS account. The page will display the positions for which you've applied as well as the status of each application.
To return to an incomplete application, log into your USAJOBS account and click on the plus sign (+) next to the job title to expand information about the job. Next click on Update Application to complete the application process.
Note: Submission of a resume alone IS NOT a complete application. This position requires the completion of additional forms and/or supplemental materials as described previously. Please carefully review the complete job announcement, including the Required Documents, Other Information, and How to Apply sections of the announcement.
Application packages will NOT be accepted via mail or e-mail. All resumes/applications received at the addresses listed in the Contact Information or Agency Information will be destroyed and will not be considered for this vacancy announcement.
Once the online questionnaire and application package is received, you will receive an acknowledgement email that your submission was successful. After a review of your complete application is made, you will be notified of your status and/or referral to the hiring official. If further evaluation or interviews are required, you will be contacted.
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
All applicants are required to submit the following supporting document type(s):
Resume
Applicants may also submit the following supporting document type(s), which may not be required for all applicants.
Cover letter
Transcripts
Although the required documents listed in this announcement only indicates that a resume is required, other documents may be required in specific circumstances.
Education: If education is a requirement or there is an option to use education for qualification purposes, you must submit your unofficial transcripts with your application package at the time of applying or before the closing date of this vacancy announcement. If selected for the position, you will be required to submit official transcripts before your Enter on Duty date.
You are encouraged to apply online. Applying online will allow you to review and track the status of your application. If you cannot complete the Application Package online, please contact the Human Resource Specialist listed in this vacancy announcement.
To apply for this position, you must complete the occupational questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents and any appropriate Accepted Documents.
To begin, click Apply in the announcement; then, choose to create a new USAJOBS account or Sign-in into your existing account.
Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your application package.
You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your application before submitting it. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process.
After completing the questionnaire and uploading appropriate documents, click the Submit Application to submit your application package.
It is applicant's responsibility to verify that information entered in the profile is accurate and all required documents are uploaded and submitted before 11:59 PM (EST) on 04/28/2023 of the announcement to receive consideration.
Human Resources will not modify or change any part of your application. Resumes must be submitted in English. If a document is not in legible format, applicant will not be able to view it in Application Manager which means applicant must again upload the documentation to the system by the closing date of this announcement.
To verify your application is complete, log into your USAJOBS account. The page will display the positions for which you've applied as well as the status of each application.
To return to an incomplete application, log into your USAJOBS account and click on the plus sign (+) next to the job title to expand information about the job. Next click on Update Application to complete the application process.
Note: Submission of a resume alone IS NOT a complete application. This position requires the completion of additional forms and/or supplemental materials as described previously. Please carefully review the complete job announcement, including the Required Documents, Other Information, and How to Apply sections of the announcement.
Application packages will NOT be accepted via mail or e-mail. All resumes/applications received at the addresses listed in the Contact Information or Agency Information will be destroyed and will not be considered for this vacancy announcement.
Once the online questionnaire and application package is received, you will receive an acknowledgement email that your submission was successful. After a review of your complete application is made, you will be notified of your status and/or referral to the hiring official. If further evaluation or interviews are required, you will be contacted.
Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
