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Director Of Information
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Description of Duties
This is a responsible public relations position involving the preparation and dissemination of information for release to the media and for publication. Employees of this class may act as an agency representative or assistant agency representative in public relations efforts. This class is distinguished from Communications Assistant as incumbents are expected to perform and take responsibility for public relations work of an expanded scope with greater consequences of error. Direct supervision is received from an agency official or department head. Supervision may be exercised over technical and clerical personnel.
Minimum Qualifications
EITHER:
(A) Graduation from a regionally accredited or New York State registered college or university with a Bachelor's degree and three (3) years of experience involving responsibility for the development of written material in the areas of journalism, public relations/public information, program development, specification development, grants administration, or closely related field; OR,
(B) Graduation from a regionally accredited or New York State registered four (4) year college with a Bachelor's degree in journalism, public relations, or public information, English Communications (not English literature) radio‑television broadcasting (writing and programming) or a closely related field and two (2) years experience as described in (A); OR,
(C) Graduation from a regionally accredited or New York State registered college or university with an Associate's degree and five (5) years experience as described in (A).
(D) Equivalent combination of education and experience as defined by the limits of (A), (B) and (C) above.
