Two FDA tobacco public affairs/communication vacancy announcements:

1. Supervisory, Health Communication Specialist for Strategic Partnerships and Alliance Team at CTP:

Serves as Director of the Strategic Partnerships and Alliances (SPA) team of the Office of Health Communication and Education (OHCE) within the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP). Advises CTP top management on partnerships and alliance information and education strategy. Serves as principal contact for Center management on matters pertaining to the development and maintenance of strategy relationships. Serves as advocate and catalyst for developing and promoting innovative new approaches to developing and maintaining partnership and alliances to improve how the Center does business. Provides leadership to maximize utilization of health communication and outreach channels to increase the impact of CTP's health information and communications, and provides critical expertise, management, and oversight to a wide range of complex and interrelated activities. Plans, organizes, and directs the activities of Division; balances workload and provides advice, guidance, and direction on a wide range of health communication and administrative issues; plans work to be accomplished by subordinates, sets and adjusts short-term priorities, and prepares schedules; and establishes measurement and analysis systems to ensure actions are timely and reviewed at critical points. Provides strategic oversight, leadership, and direction for management of CTP's call center. Serves as lead strategic advisor for keeping the call centers' responses timely, up-to-date and accurate for a wide range of calls from CTP stakeholders, including the general public. Provides strategic guidance and advice to the OHCE. Supervises design, development, editing, releasing, and maintenance of all aspects of the partnership and alliance programs in CTP. Promotes the Center's importance of Partnerships and Alliances among the intended audiences, reaching out to all Center stakeholders and constituents to ascertain needs, obtain feedback and implement enhancements or changes to CTP's information products in keeping with CTP's program goals and objectives.

2. Supervisory, Health Communication Specialist for Public and Media Relations Team at CTP:

Serves as Director of the Public and Media Relations (PMR) team of the Office of Health Communication and Education (OHCE) within the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP). Advises CTP top management on public and media related strategy. Serves as principal contact for Center management on matters pertaining to the development, distribution and evaluation of CTP's public affairs programs. Serves as advocate and catalyst for developing and promoting innovative new public and media programs to improve how the Center does business. Provides leadership to maximize utilization of all public and media related health communication and outreach channels to increase the impact of CTP's health information and communications, and provides critical expertise, management, and oversight to a wide range of complex and interrelated activities. Plans, organizes, and directs the activities of Division; balances workload and provides advice, guidance, and direction on a wide range of health communication and administrative issues; plans work to be accomplished by subordinates, sets and adjusts short-term priorities, and prepares schedules; and establishes measurement and analysis systems to ensure actions are timely and reviewed at critical points. Provides strategic oversight, leadership, and direction for management of CTP's public affairs presence. Serves as lead strategic advisor for communications and outreach in the public affairs area; coordinates and/or manages all public and media related communications and outreach activities within the Center. Provides strategic guidance, advice, and other public affairs services to the OHCE. Supervises design, development, editing, releasing, and maintenance of all public and media related programs. Promotes the Center's public affairs program among the intended audiences, reaching out to all Center stakeholders and constituents to ascertain needs, obtain feedback and implement enhancements or changes to CTP's public and media related products in keeping with CTP's program goals and objectives.

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