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Communication Specialist
Department of Education Headquarters · Posted 17 days ago
Hybrid Sacramento, CA $90K – $138K Apply by Sep 23, 2026 Miscellaneous Administration And Program ENTJESFJESTJISTJ Marketing
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This position is located in Office of Inspector General, External and Enterprise Affairs, Congressional and Communications Services. The incumbent is responsible for creating and disseminating communications tailored to both internal and external audiences, utilizing a variety of formats and channels, including social media and newsletters, to ensure effective engagement and outreach.
What You'll Do
- →Fraud doesn't stop, and neither do we.
- →We're the Office of Inspector General, an independent oversight office within the U.S.
- →Department of Education (ED) charged with identifying and preventing fraud, waste, and abuse, and ensuring accountability and effectiveness within ED programs.
- →If you want to help fight fraud and make a difference for America's students, schools, and taxpayers, we may have the career for you!
- →We offer competitive salaries, opportunities for rapid and substantial salary increases and career growth, great benefits, employee recognition programs, and more.
- →Often referred to as America's watchdogs, it's our job to help ensure that the hard-earned tax dollars that fund ED programs and operations are used as intended by law, achieve the desired results, and reach the intended recipients.
- →The OIG conducts audits and reviews of issues involving Federal student aid, K-12 schools, charter schools, special education, vocational education, adult education, and more.
- →When our work identifies problems, we propose solutions.
- →Our work has resulted in improvements to ED programs and changes to some of the most important Federal education laws in our country.
- →We conduct criminal and civil investigations into suspected fraudulent activities by schools, colleges, universities, contractors, subcontractors, school officials-any entity or individual that participates in ED programs or receives ED funding.
- →Through our work, we have unraveled multimillion-dollar fraud schemes by people placed in positions of trust to educate our children.
- →We're also on the cutting edge of cybersecurity, using the latest technology and techniques to discover and defeat current and emerging threats from cyber and economic crime.
- →We tackle new and emerging issues head-on and continually work to improve our techniques and capabilities.
- →We consistently expand our expertise by training and developing our staff.
Requirements
- ✓Condition of Employment: As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you may be required to serve a probationary period or trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period OR trial period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓You must meet all qualification requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this vacancy announcement.
- ✓If you are a current federal employee, you must meet all time-in-grade and time-after competitive appointment qualifications within 30 days of the closing date of this vacancy announcement.
- ✓To verify that you meet these requirements, we will review your responses to the core eligibility questions on the occupational questionnaire, as well as your submitted resume and required documents.
- ✓To make an accurate determination, you will need to include on your resume your federal position title, pay plan, occupational series, grade level, agency, dates for which you held the grade level (stated as MM/YYYY to MM/YYYY, OR MM/YYYY to PRESENT), and total hours worked per week.
- ✓Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social).
- ✓Key Requirement - Relocation will not be paid.
- ✓Key Requirement - Males 18 and over must be registered with the Selective Service.
- ✓Key Requirement - You may be subject to serve a one-year probationary period.
- ✓Key Requirement - Must be a US Citizen Key Requirement - May be required to complete a background clearance and fingerprint check.
- ✓Education cannot be substituted for experience for this position and grade level.
Benefits
- ★As an ED employee, you will also benefit from our family-friendly work environment.
- ★As part of our commitment to maintain a work life balance, we offer excused leave for Parent/Teacher Conferences (3 hours); excused leave for annual health screenings (4 hours); and matching leave for community volunteer service.
- ★Other flexibilities that may be available to you include alternative work schedules.
- ★You may be eligible to receive a recruitment incentive for this position.
- ★To receive this incentive payment, you will be required to sign a service agreement obligating you to remain with the U.S.
- ★Department of Education for a specified period as agreed upon.
- ★You may be eligible to receive a relocation incentive for this position.
- ★To receive this incentive payment, you will be required to sign a service agreement obligating you to remain with the U.S.
- ★Department of Education for a specified period as agreed upon.
- ★You may be eligible to participate in the Student Loan Repayment Program as a recruitment incentive for this position.
Personality Fit
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