Assignment Editor (Spanish)

United States Agency for Global Media; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The United States Agency for Global Media is seeking a supervisory journalist for the Office of Cuba Broadcasting to lead coverage, coordinate assignments, and ensure accurate, timely reporting on Cuba and related regions.

You will work with editors, assign coverage to correspondents and freelancers, and oversee final text and audiovisual reports while meeting program deadlines and national security requirements.

Qualifications

• Must have extensive knowledge of Cuba: people, culture, history, politics, economics and current events.
• Fluency in English and Spanish must be listed in your resume to be considered.
• Minimum of one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty comparable to GS-12.

Responsibilities

• Reviews a wide range of news sources to stay abreast of events for Cuba Broadcasting.
• Discusses main and regional line-ups with editors; reviews, edits and approves final text and audiovisual reports.
• Makes general assignments based on news events, deadlines and audience interests.
• Assigns coverage to correspondents and freelancers, managing day-to-day coverage and deadlines.

Skills

English fluency

Spanish fluency

Job description

Duties

• Reviews a wide variety of news sources and stays constantly abreast of news events, developments and trends to have a thorough understanding of what coverage Office of Cuba Broadcasting needs to produce.
• Works closely with news editors to discuss main and regional news line-ups and how stories on them may need additional beyond simple text coverage. Reviews, edits, and approves final text and audiovisual news reports.
• Makes general assignments, based on news events/developments, content of interest to audience and taking into account deadlines.
• Assigns coverage to correspondents, staff reporters and freelancers, determines day-to-day coverage assignments, based on news, issues, trends, developments and programming needs and mindful of program deadlines.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S Citizen or U.S. National.
• This is a national security position. If selected, this position requires the completion of the SF-86.
• Suitability Determination: If selected, you will be subject to a background investigation to establish your suitability for federal employment. The background investigation may include, among other aspects, a review of your credit and legal history.
• This position is not covered by a Union Agreement.
• This position has been designated supervisory requiring that the selectee serve on an initial appointment as a supervisor or manager serve a one-year probationary period.
• The full performance grade level for this position is GS-13
• If you are a male applicant who is born after 12/31/59, you are required to be registered for the Selective Service.
• This position may require working nights, weekends, and holidays.

Qualifications

Applicant must be eligible for an Excepted Service appointment under Schedule B, 213.3228. This appointment authority requires that the selectee have extensive knowledge of Cuba, including its people, culture, history, politics, economics, and current events. This extensive knowledge MUST be clearly articulated in your resume to receive consideration.

Screen out factor: Applicant must have fluency in both English and Spanish 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-12 or comparable pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private sector. Specialized Experience is experience, which is clearly documented in the resume and application, and which demonstrates that the applicant possesses the knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position and includes all of the following:

• Assigns and coordinates news and feature material and content elements for radio, TV and the internet based on news events and developments.
• Produces balanced, accurate, comprehensive material, selects news stories, and conducts interviews with various types of organizations and/or leaders of Spanish and English-speaking countries.
• Journalism, reporting and/or editorial experience that demonstrates a knowledge of Cuba its history, economics, culture, socio-political development, and the full range of journalistic skills to select materials, tone, and style that will be most appealing to this audience.

Education

Education is not required for this grade level. It cannot be used for qualification purposes.

Additional Information

Applicants must meet all qualification requirements by closing date of the announcement to be considered.

• 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 Selective Service
• 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.
• 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.
• Budgetary conditions may delay or otherwise affect filling this vacancy.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Benefits

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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.

How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Once your application package has been received, a review of your qualifications will be made to ensure you meet the job requirements and competencies required for this position.

Competencies:

• Interpersonal Skills
• Journalism
• Production
• Target Area

Possession of competencies must be addressed in a resume and/or cover letter. To determine if you are qualified for this job, a review of your resume and supporting documentation will be made and compared against your responses to the occupational questionnaire. The numeric rating you receive is based on your responses to the questionnaire. If, after reviewing your resume and or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and or experience, your score can and will be adjusted to more accurately reflect your qualifications. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating. You will be placed in one of three rating categories:

• Qualified Category-Applicants possessing experience that meets the minimum qualifications of the position, a numeric rating below 79.
• Well Qualified Category-Applicants possessing experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position, a numeric rating of 80-89.
• Best Qualified Category-Applicants possessing experience that substantially exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position, a numeric rating of 90 and above.

Application of Veterans' Preference:

Category Rating does not add veterans' preference points, but protects the rights of veterans by placing them ahead of non-preference eligibles within each category. Preference eligibles with a compensable service-connected disability of 10 percent or more will be placed at the top of the highest quality category (except in the case of scientific or professional positions at the GS-09 level or higher). Preference eligibles who do not have a service-connected disability of 10 percent or more will be assigned to the appropriate quality category based upon the job-related assessment and will be listed ahead of non-preference eligibles within the appropriate category.

Fair Chance Act:

Under the Fair Chance Act , agencies are not allowed to request information about an applicant's criminal history until a conditional offer of employment has been made, except as allowed for access to classified information; assignment to national security duties or positions; or recruitment of a Federal law enforcement officer. An applicant may submit a complaint or any other information related to an organization's alleged noncompliance with the Fair Chance Act. The complaint must be submitted within 30 calendar days of the date of the alleged noncompliance. To make a Fair Chance Act inquiry or complaint, send an email with the appropriate information to [e-mail] , subject line: Fair Chance Act.