Visual Information Specialist

Visual Information Specialist

This Visual Information Specialist position is located at the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center in Milwaukee, WI. The position will work within the Medical Media department and report directly to the Supervisory Communications Specialist. The primary purpose of this position is to manage and design content for the Medical Center's intranet sites. The secondary purpose is to serve as a Visual Information Specialist producing designs, productions, and displays of a variety of visual materials for websites, publications, exhibits, presentations, web-based email subscription management system.

DUTIES:

• Provide oversight and management of the Medical Center's intranet site.
• Ensure compliance with intranet content policies and will ensure published information is valid and current. This will be accomplished by evaluating and implementing current and new technologies to best serve our customers.
• Work collectively with the Supervisory Communications Specialist, Public Affairs Officer, and other Medical Center Division Managers and Program Managers on publishing intranet content, graphics, videos, and photos.
• Responsible for working with web sponsors to manage web content, style, and quality.
• Responsible for providing support to various Medical Center program areas on special intranet-related and electronic communication projects.
• Meets with clients to learn project objectives, points of emphasis and importance of all elements.
• Applies knowledge and experience of visual arts methods and techniques to translate subject matter into visual designs.
• Determines size, color, use of graphics or photographs, typography and other elements to be incorporated and how it will be reproduced.
• Works on multiple projects simultaneously and copes with high degrees of stress as workload dictates.
• Responsible for managing and performing intranet web content, writing and organizing web pages, developing a vision for web expansion, planning and developing intranet training and construction of new intranet sites, developing new web functionality and projects.
• Works with the various means of web based communication programs which requires knowledge of technical characteristics and requirements.
• Serves as a software expert for all graphics programs utilized in the Medical Media program.
• Develops original designs, concepts or visual styles for publication, web, exhibits or presentation materials that present to the public ideas or images desired by the Medical Center.
• Prepares displays, brochures, posters, historic museum-quality displays, newsletters, flyers, forms, mailers and other printed pieces as requested.

Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level.

Work Schedule: Monday through Friday; 8:00am to 4:30pm

Telework: This position is not authorized for telework.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#: Visual Information Specialist/ PD230900 and PD253150

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized.

Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved.

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized.