Keeping Washington Clean and Evergreen
The Hazardous Waste and Toxics Reduction program within the Department of Ecology is looking to fill a Consumer Products Implementation Communications Consultant (Communications Consultant 3) position.
This position is located in our Headquarters Office in Lacey, WA.
Upon hire, you must live within a commutable distance from the duty station. Do you enjoy the challenge of taking a complex topic and making it simpler for readers to understand? Do you want to use your skills to reduce Washington residents’ exposures to chemicals of concern? If so, this role could be for you!
In this position, you’ll work with a variety of subject matter experts to help them explain complex, highly technical information to a diverse array of audiences. You’ll get to work with our consumer product compliance teams to help explain new regulations under these laws to manufacturers, small business owners, and others affected by and/or interested in them.
Agency Mission: Ecology's mission is to protect, preserve and enhance the environment for current and future generations.
Program Mission: The mission of the HWTR Program is to protect Washington’s residents and environment by reducing the use of toxic chemicals, safely managing dangerous waste, preventing new contaminated sites, and cleaning up contamination. The HWTR vision is to be national leaders in minimizing and eliminating the impacts of toxic chemicals and hazardous waste.
Tele-work options for this position: This position will have flexibility of a hybrid schedule, empowering work from home and office, providing less time in traffic and shrinking your carbon footprint. This position will be eligible for up to a 90% tele-work schedule. Applicants with questions about position location options, tele-work, and flexible or compressed schedules are encouraged to reach out to the contact person listed below in “other information.” Schedules are dependent upon position needs and are subject to change.
Application Timeline: This position will remain open until filled; we will review applications on September 10, 2024. In order to be considered, please submit an application on or before September 9, 2024. If your application isn't received by this date, it may not be considered. The agency reserves the right to make a hire any time after the initial screening date.
What makes this role unique?
In this role, you’ll use your excellent communication skills to help a wide variety of audiences understand how to follow regulations enacted by laws like Safer Products for Washington and the Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act. You’ll work with technical and regulatory experts to know what messages need to be communicated, recommend communication channels, and develop messaging that’s in plain language and accessible.
What you will do:
- Collaborate with subject matter experts and communications staff to determine needs, methods, and techniques to publicize and promote compliance with consumer product regulations, engage public and community organizations, and resolve complex communication issues.
- Collaborate with communications colleagues to develop, implement, and improve consumer product compliance communication plans.
- Help identify Tribes, industries, government agencies, nonprofits, and other audiences that are impacted by these laws, work with the technical and regulatory team to determine how to effectively reach these audiences, and recommend strategies for ensuring these messages are communicated clearly.
- Plan, develop, write, edit, review, and proofread publications, web content, presentations, email list messages, social media posts, and other materials for internal and external audiences to support compliance-related communication materials to manufacturers, and other interested parties.
- Develop talking points that describe the compliance work and law parameters to communicate to internal and external stakeholders.
- Assist with planning webinars and in-person stakeholder and interested parties meetings. Facilitate team planning or meetings, or work with a facilitator to provide meeting support. Ensure meetings are well planned to be productive, on time, inclusive, interactive, meet goals, and clearly communicate next steps.
Required Qualifications:
A combined total of 6 years of experience and/or education in Journalism, public relations/information, news media, digital/social media, marketing, digital accessibility, writing/editing, or a related field.
Education in: Journalism, communications, public relations, news media, digital/social media, English, marketing, humanities, or closely allied field.
Desired Qualifications:
We highly encourage you to apply even if you do not have some (or all) of the desired experience below.
- Leading, managing, or coordinating complex team projects.
- Making file and digital information ADA accessible.
- Experience with marketing to diverse audiences.
Ecology seeks diverse applicants: We view diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect through a broad lens including race, ethnicity, class, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, immigration status, military background, language, education, life experience, physical disability, neurodiversity, and intersectional identities. Qualified candidates from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
Application Instructions:
It's in the applicant's best interest to submit all of the documents listed below. Applications without these documents may be declined.
- A cover letter describing why you are interested in this position.
- A resume outlining your experience and education (if applicable) as it relates to the minimum qualifications of this position.
- A writing sample.
Please do NOT include your salary history. Wage/salary depends on qualifications or rules of promotion, if applicable.
Equal Opportunity Employer: The Washington State Department of Ecology is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a working environment that includes and respects cultural, racial, ethnic, sexual orientation and gender identity diversity. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, persons of disability, persons over 40 years of age, veterans, military spouses or people with military status, and people of all sexual orientations and gender identities are encouraged to apply.
Note: This recruitment may be used to fill other positions of the same job classification across the agency. Once all the position(s) from the recruitment announcement are filled, the recruitment may only be used to fill additional open positions for the next sixty (60) days.
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