Departmental Promotional * Public Information Manager - County Administrative Office

Please note:

This is a departmental promotional recruitment. Departmental promotional recruitments are only open to permanent status County employees that are currently employed within the vacant positions department.

Under administrative direction, plans, organizes, directs, manages, supervises, and coordinates public information, community engagement, media relations, tourism operations, and other strategic initiatives for the County, including tourism marketing and events promotion; develops and implements strategic outreach initiatives to strengthen public awareness, community partnerships and engagement; manages public information activities such as press releases, social media postings, tourism promotion, branding and community public education campaigns;

supports the Board of Supervisors Travel and Tourism Marketing Strategy; serves as the county's principal communications resource; performs related duties as assigned.

Exercises direct supervision over supervisory, professional, technical, and administrative support staff through subordinate levels of supervision. Receives administrative direction from assigned management staff.

This is a management classification responsible for directing, planning, organizing, reviewing, and evaluating multiple complex community engagement and public information programs. Incumbents are responsible for performing diverse, specialized and complex work involving significant accountability and decision‑making responsibilities, which include developing and implementing policies and procedures for assigned programs, reporting, and program evaluation. Incumbents serve as a professional‑level resource for organizational, managerial, and operational analyses and studies.

Performance of the work requires the use of considerable independence, initiative, and discretion within broad guidelines. This classification is distinguished from the Economic Development Director in that the latter has reasonability for overall management and administration of all Economic Development functions, programs, and activities.

Management reserves the right to add, modify, change, or rescind the work assignment of different positions.

• Oversees assigned Public Information Services programs, which may include communications, media relations, digital engagement, branding, public education, tourism promotion, community outreach, special events, legislative communications, and other strategic initiatives as assigned.
• Develops countywide communication strategies and establishes consistent branding and messaging standards for use across all County departments.
• Provides strategic communications support to elected officials and department heads.
• Manages contracts related to communications, marketing, advertising, graphic design, and media services.
• Evaluates effectiveness of communications through performance metrics and analytics.
• Oversees the administration of all Public Records Act (PRA) requests, including reviewing, coordinating, and responding to requests for public information; ensures compliance with applicable laws, deadlines, and County policies, and provides guidance to departments on PRA procedures and requirements.
• Plans, coordinates, and oversees County-hosted conferences, town halls, workshops, and other public engagement events; ensures all activities comply with applicable public meeting laws and County policies, including noticing, accessibility, documentation, and communication requirements.
• Provides staff support to assigned County Boards and Commissions, including preparing agenda materials, coordinating communications, assisting with meeting logistics, ensuring compliance with public meeting requirements, and…