Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities is hiring: Content Creat

Content Creator & Communications Media Relations Coordinator (Information Officer 3, PCN 252231)

ATTENTION ALASKA RESIDENTS ONLY!

Are you a creative communicator with a passion for storytelling and public engagement? Northern Region DOT&PF is looking for a dynamic, forward-thinking professional to lead media relations, social media, and public outreach efforts. As the face of our region’s communications, you’ll craft compelling content, manage press interactions, and ensure Alaskans stay informed about the transportation projects that impact their communities. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, love creating engaging digital content, and can balance professionalism with a fresh, modern approach, we want you on our team!

What You Will Be Doing

As the face of Northern Region DOT&PF, you’ll be at the heart of our public outreach, media relations, and digital storytelling. Your mission? To create engaging content that connects Alaskans with the transportation projects shaping their communities. From crafting compelling social media posts to producing high-impact publications and coordinating with the press, you’ll do it all. In this fast-paced role, you’ll be the go-to expert for media requests, ensuring clear, timely, and accurate communication—especially during critical events. You’ll collaborate with local governments, tribal entities, and interagency partners to keep the public informed and engaged.

Working closely with the Communications Team and the Northern Region Director, you’ll develop visuals, written content, and digital materials for social media, websites, and public outreach events. You’ll also play a key role in shaping DOT&PF’s voice, ensuring messaging is consistent across all channels. Our Communications Team thrives in a collaborative, dynamic environment, offering specialized training and resources to support your success. This is your chance to showcase Alaska’s transportation initiatives and strengthen connections with diverse communities across the state. If you’re creative, adaptable, and ready to make an impact, we want to hear from you!

Minimum Qualifications

• Communications and Media: Knowledge of the production, communication and dissemination of information and ideas to inform and entertain via written, oral, visual media and social media.
• External Awareness: Understands and keeps up-to-date on local, national, and international policies and trends that affect the organization and shape stakeholders' views; is aware of the organization's impact on the external environment.
• Interpersonal Skills: Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences.
• Multimedia Technologies: Knowledge of the principles, methods, tools, and techniques to develop or apply technology using text, audio, graphics, or other media.
• Oral and Written Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
• Organizational Awareness: Knows the organization's mission and functions, and how its social, political, and technological systems work and operates effectively within them.

Who We Are Looking For

The ideal candidate will possess the following competencies:

• Partnering: Develops networks and builds alliances; collaborates across boundaries to build strategic relationships and achieve common goals.
• Public Service Motivation: Shows a commitment to serve the public. Ensures that actions meet public needs; aligns organizational objectives and practices with public interests.
• Client Engagement/Change Management: Knowledge of the impact of change on people, processes, procedures, leadership, and organizational culture; knowledge of change management principles, strategies, and techniques required for effectively planning, implementing, and evaluating change in the organization.

Additional Required Information

• Content Portfolio: If applicable, a portfolio of prior work showcasing diverse communication products, such as brochures, press releases, graphics, or newsletters.
• Copy of Valid Driver's License.

Contact Information

Name: Danielle Tessen, Department Communication Manager
Phone: (907) 347-8358
Email: danielle.tessen@alaska.gov
Name: Shannon McCarthy, Communications Director
Phone: (907) 744-7360
Email: shannon.mccarthy@alaska.gov

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing

Industries

Government Administration