Assistant Director of Public & Government Relations at WS ALAMO – San Antonio, Texas

The Assistant Director of Public & Government Relations will coordinate and participate in developing the organization's marketing strategies. The Assistant Director will collaborate to align department goals and objectives with the high-demand occupations, labor market data, and the local and state, creating opportunities to move the agency forward through outreach and marketing campaigns, job fairs, and local events to support job seekers and employers.

Under the direction of the Director of Public & Govt. Relations: This is an agency-wide leadership position, assisting and developing outreach, marketing, and brand alignment for Workforce Solutions Alamo. This role accesses, initiates, coordinates, and executes all agency marketing and outreach campaigns and communication strategies. These roles and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

The Assistant Director of Public & Govt Relations will be responsible for the supervision of all staff assigned to that respective unit and monitor and evaluate job performance in accordance with agency expectations. Develop and Implement Training and Capacity Building of assigned staff.

Quality/Compliance: Achieving a standard of excellence with our work processes and outcomes, honoring WSA policies and all regulatory requirements.

Communication: Balancing listening and talking, speaking, and writing clearly and accurately, influencing others, keeping others informed.

Initiative: Taking ownership of our work, doing what is needed without being asked, following through.

Efficiency: Planning, managing time well, being on time, being cost conscious, thinking of better ways to do things.

Customer Focus: Striving for high customer satisfaction, going out of our way to be helpful and pleasant, making it as easy as possible on the customer rather than our department or Workforce Solutions Alamo (WSA).

Collegiality/Collaboration: Being helpful, respectful, approachable, and collaborative, cooperating with others, inside and outside the organization, to accomplish objectives to build and maintain mutually beneficial partnerships, leverage information, and achieve results.

Integrity/Transparency: Upholds social, ethical, and organizational norms and values; firmly adheres to codes of conduct and ethical principles; behaves consistently, and is open, honest, and trustworthy; acts without consideration of personal gain.

Continuous Learning & Self Development: Being receptive to feedback, willing to learn, embracing continuous improvement, proactively investigating new perspectives, approaches, and behaviors.

People Management (for those with direct reports): Setting clear expectations, reviewing progress, providing feedback and guidance, holding people accountable.

Problem Solving: Identifies problems and uses logic, judgment, and data to evaluate alternatives and recommends solutions to achieve the desired organizational goal or outcomes.

Decision Quality: Makes sound decisions that consider objectives, risks, implications, and agency and governmental regulations.

To perform this job successfully, the individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in public relations, communications, marketing, or a related field is required. A minimum of 5 years of related experience and a minimum of 3-5 years in a supervisory role is required. Work with public or non-profit organizations preferred.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Workforce Solutions Alamo is an equal opportunity employer/program. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities. The position will close when filled.