U.S. Agency for Global Media Job Recruitment For Editor (Standards and Best Practices) – U.S.A

Position description

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Maintains VOA News Standards and Best Practices Guide, responsible for updating journalistic standards and practices under the VOA Charter.

• Provides advice on journalistic and editorial guidelines, and whether they are practiced consistently throughout VOA.
• Actively involved in editorial and production issues involving potentially sensitive and/or controversial subject matter.
• Works with VOA support staff to ensure that all VOA broadcasting personnel complete an online annual review of VOA’s standards and practices, and other journalistic training that may be required by VOA management.

• Works closely with the Office of General Counsel, VOA Office of Public Affairs, and Office of Human Resources on issues that address journalistic and government ethics, plagiarism and similar issues.

• Evaluates requests for outside activities by full-time VOA employees and VOA contract personnel, and recommends approval or denial.
• Assists in the reviews of ethical violations, firewall breaches, and similar conduct and similar journalistic ethic issues.
• Reviews content related to questions of plagiarism and provides expert opinion and guidance.

• Provides training on journalistic best practices to new VOA employees and presents training and discusses journalistic best practices as they relate to VOA’s contracts with external newsfeed providers.
• Reviews and approves or denies requests of one-time-only usage of VOA news reports and/or programs by individuals or organizations outside of USAGM.

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Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Applicants must meet all qualification requirements by closing date of the announcement to be considered.
• Applicants must complete online questionnaire.
• If you are a male applicant, born after 12/31/59, you 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.
• 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 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.
• This position is not covered by a Union Agreement
• If selected for this vacancy, you will be required to file the OGE Form 450 (Confidential Financial Disclosure Report).
• The full performance grade level for this position is GS-14.

Qualifications

Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 grade level or equivalent level in the private, public, or federal sectors. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. This experience includes:

• Editorial work applying the VOA Charter, Journalistic Code, and Best Practices Guide, or equivalent guidance, standards, and requirements governing ethical conduct in a news journalism and/or broadcasting environment, and reviewing text, video, audio, and equivalent multimedia content, which was prepared by others, to determine adherence to these criteria.
• News journalism and/or broadcasting assignments that provided an in-depth exposure to U.S. Foreign policy, economy, politics, history, and similar U.S. foreign and domestic policy issues and concerns.

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Education

Applicant cannot substitute education for experience.

Additional information

• If you are an eligible Inter agency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) applicant, you may apply for special selection over other candidates for this position. To be well-qualified and exercise selection priority for this vacancy, displaced Federal employees must be rated at 80 or above on the rating criteria for this position. ICTAP eligibles must submit one of the following as proof of eligibility for the special selection priority: a separation notice; a “Notice of Personnel Action” (SF-50) documenting separation; an agency certification that you cannot be placed after injury compensation has been terminated; an OPM notification that your disability annuity has been terminated; OR a Military Department or National Guard Bureau notification that you are retired under 5 U.S.C. 8337(h) or 8456.

• Applicants claiming veteran’s preference must submit a DD-214 (copy # 2 or 4 – member copy); veterans who are claiming disabled veteran preference must also submit a VA disability letter and a SF-15; AND, applicants seeking widow or other special veterans preference must submit a SF-15 and all documents indicated for their specific form of preference.
• Status applicants who wish to be considered under merit promotion procedures, including those eligible to apply under Interchange Agreements with other Merit Systems and Veterans Employment Opportunity Act of 1998, should apply under announcement # ST-11455502-22-RD.
• If you are still on active duty, you may submit a statement of service from your Personnel Command which states the date you entered active duty, the date you are separating, and the campaign medals you have received.

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 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:

1. Communications and Media
2. Decision Making
3. Integrity/Honesty
4. Interpersonal Skills
5. Journalism

Possession of competencies may be addressed 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 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 then be placed in one of three rating categories:

• Qualified Category
• Well Qualified Category
• Best Qualified Category
• 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 nonpreference eligibles within the appropriate quality category.

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  Required Documents

  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
  • DD-214/ Statement of Service
  • Disability Letter (VA)
  • Documentation supporting eligibility for CTAP/ICTAP
  • Documentation supporting eligibility for derived veterans’ preference – see “Required Documentation” on SF-15.
  • Resume
  • Separation Notice (RIF)
  • SF-15
  • SF-50/ Notification of Personnel Action

  Although the required documents listed in this announcement only indicates that a resume is required, other documents may be required in specific circumstances, as indicated in application requirements in Other Information above.

  If you are a veteran with preference eligibility and you are claiming 5-point veterans’ preference, you must attach the member copy of your DD-214 or other proof of eligibility. If you are claiming 10-point veterans’ preference, you must also attach an Application of 10-Point Veterans’ Preference (SF-15) plus the proof required by that form
  . If you are still on active duty, you may submit a statement of service from your Personnel Command which states the date you entered active duty, the date you are separating, and the campaign medals you have received.

  How to Apply:
  Interested and qualified candidates should:
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