Job Description The Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ) advises the Mayor on public safety policy and is the Mayor’s representative to the courts, district attorneys, defenders, and state criminal justice agencies, among others. The office designs, deploys, and evaluates citywide strategies to drive down crime, reduce unnecessary arrests and incarceration, and improve the system’s fairness. MOCJ works with law enforcement and city agencies, non-profits, foundations, and others to implement data-driven strategies that address current crime conditions, prevent offending, and build the strong neighborhoods that ensure enduring safety. About the Role: The Chief of Public Affairs serves as MOCJ’s senior level member responsible for developing and overseeing all strategy for communication with the public, and the press. Reporting to the Chief of Staff, the Chief of Public Affairs advises the Director and ensures that MOCJ’s public affairs work is effective and advances strategic goals. Among the tasks that this leader will need to execute are: - Conceiving and implementing a broad strategic public affairs plan to further the goals of the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice. Determine the most effective communications, public education and engagement, research dissemination, and community engagement tactics to implement this plan. - Shaping the language, images, and multimedia that represent the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice and its work compellingly, convincingly, and accurately. Ensuring consistent, clear messaging across all modes of communication, including traditional and new media, in-depth analytic reports, op-eds, fact sheets, testimony, text for video and podcasts, speeches, proposals and presentations. - Managing media relations, including story development, media targeting, pitching, and relationship management. Planning proactive media campaigns and outreach, as well as rapid response work in reaction to breaking news. Monitoring the media for opportunities to engage. - Overseeing the executive briefing process, which entails critically thinking about topics, compiling comprehensive issue summaries, and briefing executives. -Oversee the development and implementation of a comprehensive intergovernmental affairs strategy -Oversight of communications and intergovernmental affairs team -Improve audience-focused communication, tailoring messaging to drive impact; serve as a resource across departments and functional units to advise and align communication planning -Support the creation of compelling communication assets that connect employees to departmental objectives, initiatives and goals -Identify and leverage effective communication channels across the organization; cultivate employee engagement through building community with impactful messaging -Inform and engage employees through activating an internal network to source news for use across channels, town halls, newsletters, departmental memos, intranet, lead local intranet content planning and delivery -Provide communications advice to the senior leadership team; perform related duties as assigned. Qualifications 1. Do you have a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university? 2. Do you have an associate degree from an accredited college or university along with two (2) years of experience with administrative, analytic, coordinative, supervisory or liaison responsibilities? 3. Do you have a four-year high school diploma, or its educational equivalent approved by a state's Department of Education or a recognized accrediting organization along with four (4) years of experience as described in question "2" above? 4. Do you have a satisfactory combination of education and/or experience equivalent to that described in questions "1," "2," and/or "3" above? Additional Information The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.