Senior Public Affairs Officer

Position Summary

Odyssey Systems has an exciting new opportunity for an experienced Senior Public Affairs Officer (PAO) supporting a high-priority acquisition mission within the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Cryptologic and Cyber Systems Division (AFLCMC/HNC).  The primary purpose of this position is to establish and conduct the public affairs program in the Cryptologic and Cyber Systems Division. The PAO conducts the public affairs program within an agency of a Federal department, with responsibility for planning, designing, and executing a program to inform and educate the general and specialized publics about the organization's programs, activities and services.

The Public Affairs Specialist will support the planning and execution of strategic programs. This role encompasses strategic communications, public affairs, outreach, and event planning. The specialist will manage communications content, coordinate high-visibility events, and strengthen stakeholder engagement across government, industry, academia, and international partners.

This is a Full-Time position located on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas.  

Responsibilities

Duties include, but not limited to: 

• Carries out continuous media content analysis based on multiple data sources. Continuously identifies pertinent print, broadcast, and online media coverage of the Department of the Air Force, and uses quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques to assess the immediate importance and impact of the identified media coverage.
• Incorporates social science research results from formal opinion research surveys and focus groups, together with media assessments, into comprehensive communication effects assessments.
• Creates long-term communication strategies and deliberate communications plans based on the identification and accurate description of the audiences and desired effects for Department of the Air Force communication efforts. Attends meetings, conferences, briefings, and seminars related to program planning, advanced technologies, and support system concepts.

Qualifications

Citizenship: Must be a US citizen

Minimum Required Qualifications

Clearance: Active Secret

Education: Bachelor's

Years of Experience: 3+ years of experience with at least 3 years working in the DoW.

• Extensive experience in DoD public affairs, protocol, and event management.

• Excellent writing and communication skills with the ability to produce press releases, news articles, and speeches across multiple media.

• Knowledge of agency program planning, funding, and management information systems.

Preferred Qualifications

Clearance: TS/SCI

Education: Master's in Journalism, PR, Marketing or related field

Years of experience: 5+ years with at least 3 years working in DoW

Technical Skills

• Mastery of the principles, methods, practices, and techniques of public affairs, especially written and oral communication activities required to successfully develop intercommunication between the Air Force and a variety of audiences.
• Mastery of the principles, methods, practices, and techniques of media content analysis, including establishing operational definitions of analytic terms, intercoded reliability of operational definitions, and definitions of units of analytic measurement, as well as delineation of media frames present in content analyzed, sources of media framing, and explanation of relevance of identified media frames to Air Force issues.
• Mastery of data gathering and analysis skills required to accumulate, organize, evaluate, and interpret data to identify relevant issues, arrive at valid conclusions, and offer meaningful recommendations and/or resolutions.
• Skill in the principles, methods, practices, and techniques of opinion research, including social science techniques of audience analysis, survey questionnaire development, survey result analysis, and explanation of relevance of survey results to Air Force issues.
• Skill in the principles, methods, practices, and techniques of defense policy and plans development, including detailed knowledge of recent and historical Air Force planning, programming and budget issues relevant to deliberate communications activities.

Interpersonal Skills

• Skill in working with people to maintain effective working relationships with groups interested in or affected by public affairs programs or policies, and producing written information conveying complex information to relevant audiences with different levels of understanding.
• Ability to present information orally in a logical, clear, and concise manner to audiences with different levels of comprehension.

Additional Information

Location: Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas

Work Environment: Onsite

Travel: 10%

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Company Overview

Odyssey is a world-class technical, engineering, and integration company serving the warfighting ecosystem with airborne integration, ISR, C2, and warfighter readiness capabilities. Odyssey meets the military’s operational needs by integrating layered defense systems from equipment, technology, and services to data, information, and business operations. We streamline defense acquisition and sustainment, engineering the technical battlefield with domain-specific proficiency to ensure lethality. Odyssey is dedicated to excellent contract execution, peak organizational performance, and fostering a workplace built on employee care.

Odyssey is proud to live out our core values of commitment, ambition, and respect in our work and communities through OdysseyCares, a philanthropic group focused on giving back through direct donations, an employer match program, and volunteering events.

Please note: Final compensation for this position will be determined by various factors such as the Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant work experience, specific skills and competencies, geographic location, education, and certifications.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities