Role Description The Communications Specialist supports ICE initiatives and will report to the Associate Director. This job will be 100% remote. - Responsible for communication plans/marketing, dissemination plans of tasks, new policy/procedures, system functionality, change management. - Provides senior-level support to further strategic communication by supporting engagement strategies to communicate the programmatic information to senior-level leadership. - Provide recommendations for stakeholder engagement to increase awareness and understanding of issues and requirements. Qualifications - Bachelor’s Degree or higher in any discipline. - Minimum of five (5) years of specialized experience to include performing presentations of research analysis and coordination with internal and external stakeholders or like complexity. - Knowledge and experience working on multiple projects simultaneously in or like a Contact Center environment. - Knowledge of serving as a liaison between multiple business units and key stakeholders to address knowledge gap areas. - Knowledge to assist with the development of KPIs, SLAs. - Knowledge of working with internal stakeholders to ensure all operational systems are continuously evaluated for operational synergy between internal units. - Knowledge of coordinating with internal stakeholders regarding knowledgebase development, process improvements, change management, and communications initiatives. - Knowledge of communicating plans, programs, and pending systems changes. - Knowledge to assist with and compose technical documents including, user's manuals, training materials, installation guides, proposals, and reports. - Ability to demonstrate knowledge of current principles, practices, and techniques of oral and written communications. - Ability to communicate effectively both orally (in groups and one-on-one) and in writing. - Ability to work independently and shall have demonstrated the ability to efficiently interpret research and analyze information from various sources. - Must have knowledge of office management principles, practices, and procedures, and have excellent written communication skills. - Leads the creation, development, and/or maintenance of effective communication strategies. - Coordinates external and internal communications flow (memos, newsletters etc.). Requirements - Preference may be extended to qualified Native American Indian candidates in accordance with applicable federal law. Company Description - PCI Federal (PCIF) and its subsidiaries are an equal-opportunity employer. - PCIF does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, national origin, religion, marital status, sexual orientation or identity, Veterans or Disability status.

Role Description The Senior External Communications Lead (SECL) supports and operationalizes PLEJ’s external communications, media engagement, organizational messaging, and public relations strategy. Reporting to the Senior Director of Communications and Digital Engagement, this role helps ensure that PLEJ’s communications function is disciplined, responsive, well-coordinated, and aligned with organizational priorities. This position is designed for an experienced communications professional with strong public relations, organizational communications, and media relations experience. The SECL serves as a day-to-day communications manager and execution lead—helping translate strategy into action, manage communications consultants and vendors, prepare materials for public and partner engagement, support reporter outreach and pitching, and ensure high-quality communications outputs across the organization. This role is especially important as PLEJ grows its national presence, strengthens its institutional voice, and supports local election officials as credible, trusted experts in a complex and fast-moving information environment. Core Responsibilities - Strategic Communications Execution - Implementation of PLEJ’s communications and digital engagement strategy in coordination leadership. - Translate strategic priorities into communications plans, project timelines, editorial calendars, and deliverables. - Help ensure consistency of messaging, tone, voice, and positioning across PLEJ communications. - Day-to-day comms lead for assigned initiatives, campaigns, events, announcements, and PLEJ priorities. - Identify gaps, reputational risk, and opportunities to strengthen public understanding of election administration. - Maintain organized workflow for timely, high-quality execution across internal team and external partners. - Media Relations and Reporter Engagement - Build and maintain relationships with reporters covering elections, democracy, government, public administration, civic engagement, technology, and related issues. - Develop and execute media outreach plans, including reporter research, pitch development, background materials, and follow-up. - Support proactive storytelling that elevates PLEJ members as credible election administration leaders. - Coordinate media opportunities, interview prep, talking points, press materials, and background briefings. - Monitor media coverage and emerging narratives to help identify opportunities, risks, and response needs. - Support rapid response communications during high-profile, sensitive, or time-sensitive moments. - Organizational Communications and Public Relations - Draft and edit PLEJ messaging, statements, talking points, newsletters, reports, web copy, op-eds, and decks. - Support PLEJ leadership comms (e.g. executive messaging, public remarks, external briefings, and events). - Ensure that comms reinforce PLEJ’s nonpartisan, member-centered, operationally grounded voice. - Support organizational growth, partnerships, fundraising, external engagement, and institutional visibility. - Coordinate with all other PLEJ departments to align communications with organizational priorities. - Consultant, Vendor, and Project Management - Manage comms consultants, writers, designers, agencies, vendors, and other external partners as assigned. - Develop clear scopes of work, project timelines, review processes, and quality standards for deliverables. - Ensure consultants produce work accurately, timely, and consistently with PLEJ’s nonpartisan mission/posture. - Track communications projects, deadlines, dependencies, and approvals across multiple workstreams. - Support leadership in building comms systems, processes, and infrastructure appropriate for scaling. - Content Development and Narrative Support - Help translate complex election administration topics into clear, accessible, public-facing content. - Develop media resources, explainers, issue briefs, FAQs, public education materials, and comms toolkits. - Support narrative development around the role, expertise, challenges, and innovations of large election offices. - Work with PLEJ comms/membership teams so public-facing materials are grounded in operational realities. - Package content for web, email, social media, presentations, reports, and visual storytelling products. - Cross-Functional Collaboration - Partner closely with leadership, PLEJ team, external consultants, and external partners to advance the work. - Support preparation for convenings, briefings, webinars, partner meetings, and external engagements. - Help ensure comms efforts support PLEJ’s broader organizational strategy, partnerships, and resource creation. - Contribute to a professional, collaborative, nonpartisan, and service-oriented organizational culture. - Support broader organizational efforts and collaborate across teams to meet evolving priorities, including taking on additional responsibilities as needed that contribute to PLEJ’s mission and impact. Qualifications - 7+ years of experience in communications, public relations, public affairs, media relations, or a related field. - Prior experience developing and executing communications plans across multiple audiences and channels. - Strong media relations experience (e.g. pitching reporters, preparing materials, and supporting interviews). - Excellent writing, editing, and messaging skills; able to translate complex topics into clear, accessible content. - Experience managing consultants, vendors, agencies, freelancers, or cross-functional comms projects. - Strong project management skills; ability to move multiple workstreams forward in a fast-paced environment. - Ability to collaborate effectively with senior leaders, subject matter experts, partners, and internal teams. - Sound judgment, able to work on sensitive topics, maintaining confidentiality, nonpartisanship, and credibility. Requirements - Experience in elections, democracy, public administration, civic engagement, public policy, or nonprofit comms. - Experience supporting comms during high-stakes, time-sensitive, or reputationally sensitive moments. - Experience working with coalitions, associations, membership organizations, or multi-stakeholder initiatives. - Experience supporting executive, partner, and/or development communications, or institutional positioning. - Familiarity with media monitoring, audience insights, message testing, or communications analytics. - Experience scaling an organization and building systems, templates, workflows, and comms infrastructure. Benefits - Fully covered medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability, and term life insurance premiums for the employee (employee’s family may be added at employee’s expense). - Unlimited PTO. - 14 observed holidays and generous holiday schedule. - 401(k) retirement plan. Compensation & Location - Salary range: $113,890.00 – $136,082.00, commensurate with experience. - Location: Flexible, with regular travel for member convenings and national engagement (up to 30%). - PLEJ is a fully remote team. This role must be located and performed within the United States and be online and available between the hours of 9a and 5p ET, regardless of where candidate lives. - Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire.

Role Description The Senior Member Communications Lead (SMCL) serves as PLEJ’s primary communications bridge to member jurisdictions and helps ensure that PLEJ’s communications work is grounded in the operational realities of election administration. Reporting to the Senior Director of Communications and Digital Engagement, this role is designed for a communications professional with direct election administration experience—ideally a former election office public information officer, communications director, deputy election official, or senior staff member who has supported public communications in a large or complex election jurisdiction. This role helps PLEJ understand what members are experiencing, anticipate communications needs, develop practical tools and templates, support peer exchange, and translate operational insights into clear, useful communications resources. The Senior Communications Lead also supports the Communications Workgroup and coordinates closely with the Resilience Workgroup to help convert field intelligence, scenario planning, and member needs into actionable communications strategies. The person in this role must be able to build trust with election officials, understand the pressures of local election administration, and communicate with accuracy, humility, discretion, and nonpartisanship. Core Responsibilities - Member Communications and Field Engagement - Serve as a primary communications contact for PLEJ members and member communications staff. - Build trusted relationships with election officials, public information officers, and other member jurisdictions. - Proactively engage members on emerging communication threats, challenges, priorities, and best practices. - Identify issues where communications support, peer exchange, or nonpartisan resources may be helpful. - Ensure that member perspectives and operational realities inform PLEJ communication tools and content. - Maintain confidentiality and trust while surfacing field-level insights that can strengthen PLEJ’s work. - Communications Workgroup and Peer Exchange - Support and help facilitate PLEJ’s Communications Workgroup in partnership with comms/program teams. - Help design agenda topics, prep materials, document insights, convert peer discussions into practical resources. - Help translate scenario planning, operational risks, and resilience strategies into communications guidance. - Identify opportunities for peer-to-peer learning among election officials and communications practitioners. - Help ensure peer conversations move beyond dialogue to implementation, tools, and shared practices. - Election Administration Communications Resources - Develop publicly available, nonpartisan templates, toolkits, FAQs, explainers, and other practical resources. - Translate complex election administration topics into clear, accurate, and actionable comms materials. - Support communication resources related to election operations, public education, and high-interest topics. - Work with members to identify examples, lessons learned, and operational insights to inform new resources. - Ensure materials are practical for large offices while remaining accessible to other election offices as needed. - Operational Intelligence and Issue Spotting - Monitor member needs, field trends, public communications challenges, and emerging operational issues. - Surface member communications needs relevant leadership, membership, and program staff. - Identify upcoming opportunities tied to election dates, operational milestones, events, and developments. - Support development of rapid-response resources during high-profile, sensitive, or time-sensitive moments. - Help ensure that PLEJ’s resources reflect uplift practical best practices that reflect the realities of large offices. - Content Development and Member-Facing Communications - Draft member updates, newsletters, social media and digital posts, briefings, meeting materials, issue summaries, and announcements. - Ensure external messaging accurately reflects member experiences and operational realities. - Collaborate with the team to develop accessible, visually clear resources for members and public audiences. - Help ensure members are prepped for media opportunities, public briefings, convenings, webinars, and peer presentations. - Capture member stories, case studies, and examples that uplift members as election administration leaders. - Ensure comms efforts strengthen member value, member trust, and PLEJ’s role as a practical, nonpartisan field anchor. - Cross-Functional Collaboration - Work closely with the PLEJ team to support convenings, briefings, and other member-facing programming. - Ensure comms efforts strengthen member value/trust, and PLEJ’s role as a practical, nonpartisan field anchor. - Contribute to a culture of professionalism, humility, service, confidentiality, and nonpartisanship. - Support broader organizational efforts and collaborate across teams to meet evolving priorities, including taking on additional responsibilities as needed that contribute to PLEJ’s mission and impact. Qualifications - 7+ years of direct experience supporting public communications in elections, public administration, public information, civic engagement, or similarly high-stakes operational environment. - Strong understanding of election administration, including the operational pressures, timelines, public scrutiny, and communications needs of local election offices. - Excellent writing, editing, facilitation, and relationship-building skills. - Demonstrated ability to translate complex operational topics into clear, practical, nonpartisan resources. - Ability to build trust with election officials, member staff, partners, and internal colleagues. - Ability to manage sensitive information, maintain confidentiality, and exercise sound judgment. - Ability to navigate election environments while maintaining neutrality, accuracy, and credibility. Preferred - Former election office public information officer, communications director, deputy election official, senior election administrator, or similar election administration practitioner. - Experience working in or closely with a large election jurisdiction. - Experience developing comms resources (e.g. templates, voter education materials, toolkits, FAQs, social and digital media, talking points, trainings, or public-facing election resources). - Experience facilitating peer learning, workgroups, webinars, message and media trainings, or communities of practice. - Experience supporting communications related to election security, combatting inaccurate information, operational resilience, crisis response, public trust, or high-profile election events. - Experience working across coalitions, associations, member networks, or multi-jurisdictional initiatives. Key Competencies - Deep credibility with election officials and understanding of the practical realities of local election offices. - Ability to build trust with members and serve as a respectful, responsive, and proactive comms partner. - Strong writing and translation skills, especially for complex operational or technical subjects. - Ability to identify member needs and convert field insights into useful communications resources. - Strong facilitation skills and ability to support peer-to-peer exchange and implementation. - Sound judgment in sensitive, high-pressure, or politically charged environments. - Commitment to nonpartisanship, confidentiality, service, and operational accuracy. - Ability to collaborate across communications, programs, resilience, and member engagement functions. Key Outcomes (First 1–2 Years) - Stronger Member Communications Support: PLEJ members have clearer, more practical, and more timely communications resources that help them communicate with voters, partners, media, and the public. - Trusted Member Relationships: PLEJ has deeper relationships with member communications staff, public information officers, and election leaders across large jurisdictions. - Effective Communications Workgroup Support: The Communications Workgroup becomes a more active source of peer learning, shared resources, field intelligence, and implementation support. - Operationally Grounded Communications Products: PLEJ’s public-facing and member-facing communications better reflect the real-world complexity of election administration. - Improved Rapid Response Readiness: PLEJ can more quickly identify member needs and develop practical communications resources during high-profile or sensitive moments. - Stronger Field-to-Strategy Feedback Loop: Member insights more consistently inform PLEJ’s narrative strategy, public education resources, partner engagement, and organizational priorities. Compensation & Location - Salary range: $113,890.00 – $136,082.00, commensurate with experience. - Location: Flexible, with regular travel for member convenings and national engagement (up to 30%). - PLEJ is a fully remote team. This role must be located and performed within the United States and be online and available between the hours of 9a and 5p ET, regardless of where candidate lives. - Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire. Benefits - Fully covered medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability, and term life insurance premiums for the employee (employee’s family may be added at employee’s expense). - Unlimited PTO. - 14 observed holidays and generous holiday schedule. - 401(k) retirement plan. Company Description The Partnership for Large Election Jurisdictions (PLEJ) is a 501(c)(3) nonpartisan, nonprofit organization committed to providing a community of support to election jurisdictions nationwide. PLEJ is an equal opportunity employer. Employees and job applicants are protected from discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, political affiliation, military service, or other non-merit-based factors. These protections apply to all employment decisions, including recruitment, hiring, performance evaluations, promotions, training, and career development. Additionally, PLEJ provides employees and applicants reasonable accommodations for disabilities; for pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; and for religious beliefs, observances, and practices. This job description is intended to outline the general scope and responsibilities of the position and may be subject to updates based on organizational needs. It does not constitute a contract of employment.

Senior Course Coordinator - Physics Locations AUSTIN, TX Full time job requisition id R_00046408 Job Description: Hiring Department: On Ramps Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40 FLSA Status: Exempt from FLSA Earliest Start Date: Immediately Position Duration: Expected to Continue Job Details: General Notes UT Austin offers a competitive benefits package that includes: - 100% employer-paid basic medical coverage - Retirement contributions - Paid vacation and sick time - Paid holidays - Eligible for hybrid telework For more details, please see HR Benefits and Total Rewards. Position requires up to 5% travel throughout the state of Texas. Weekends and evenings possible to support course implementation, including during summer, spring, and fall professional learning institutes and enrollment deadlines. Purpose Support efforts and ensure fidelity of implementation of the OnRamps Physics courses and to coordinate a high-level of instructional and professional development service and support to OnRamps Instructors, OnRamps Students, and UT Faculty. Responsibilities - Provides 1:1 instructional, professional development, and technical service and support to OnRamps Instructors to ensure fidelity of implementation, teacher growth, retention, and satisfaction in the OnRamps Four Pillars. Using standardized service and support strategies including instructor resource environment, provides just-in-time support as needed. - Develops and implements annual professional learning institutes during Summer, Fall, and Spring for Onramps instructors in close collaboration with the Course Leads, OnRamps Assistant Director, and Professional Learning and Development team to ensure and enhance course implementation aligned to the OnRamps Four Pillars. - Uses standardized relationship building strategies to cultivate and lead a facilitated network of OnRamps Instructors within the assigned course subject-area through yearlong, ongoing professional development activities by maintaining weekly Newsletters, monthly virtual conferences, and virtual or in-person site visits as needed. - Develops and oversees the systems to monitoring curriculum implementation to ensure fidelity to the pillar of college-aligned content. Provides feedback to students as needed, including using data to observe student engagement and processing instances of academic integrity. - Ensures the grading mechanism approved by the Instructor of Record is executed with fidelity, including grading and/or supervising grading of college credit assignments, calibration, quality assurance protocols, and other intensive assessment activities. - Utilizes data that illuminates student learning and engagement which could include course engagement, college submissions, and learning outcomes. Employs a data driven decision process that guides professional learning, instructor and student support, enhancement proposals, and daily workflows. - Communicates and collaborates effectively with internal and external stakeholders to align work and collectively serve the OnRamps mission. Modes include online, telephone, and in-person communication. Provides exceptional customer service, technical support, and a willingness to solve problems with professionalism, positivity, tact and decorum. - Supports and engage in designated special projects as assigned that supports the mission and strategic direction of OnRamps as an organization. Required Qualifications - Master's degree in Physics or closely related field and five years teaching experience at a high school or college level. - Proficient in Canvas Learning Management System (LMS) or another LMS. - Exceptional customer service skills, with the ability to engage multiple internal and external stakeholders with decorum and tact. - Ability to communicate technical information to lay audiences using a respectful, client-focused approach. - Demonstrated understanding of high school teaching and learning in Science courses. Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate. Preferred Qualifications - Doctoral degree in Physics or closely related field and two years teaching experience. - Proficient at managing large projects using data or project management software such as Smartsheet. - Experience developing and delivering professional-development initiatives for high school teachers. - Experience developing and maintaining online professional learning communities for students and/or teachers. - Attention to detail and ability to move multiple projects forward. Salary Range $70,000 + depending on qualifications Working Conditions - Position requires up to 5% travel throughout the state of Texas. - Weekends and evenings possible to support course implementation, including during summer, spring, and fall professional learning institutes and enrollment deadlines. - May work around standard office conditions. - Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation. - Shared desk environment. - Hybrid work environment. - Climbing of stairs. - Use of manual dexterity. Required Materials - Resume/CV - 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor - Letter of interest Please mark "yes" on the application question that asks if additional materials are required. Candidates who fail to attach all additional materials listed, may not be considered for the position. Important for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers: You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications. Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section; you will be able to multi-select additional files. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded. Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes. Important for Current university employees and contingent workers: As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find UT Jobs. If you are a current University employee, log-in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile before you apply. This information will be pulled in to your application. The application is one page and you will be prompted to upload your resume. In addition, you must respond to the application questions presented to upload any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) that were noted above. Employment Eligibility: Regular staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting, to include both promotional opportunities and lateral transfers. Staff who are promotion/transfer eligible may apply for positions without supervisor approval. Retirement Plan Eligibility: The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length. Background Checks: A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position. Equal Opportunity Employer: The University of Texas at Austin, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.Pay Transparency: The University of Texas at Austin will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. Employment Eligibility Verification: If hired, you will be required to complete the federal Employment Eligibility Verification I-9 form. You will be required to present acceptable and original documents to prove your identity and authorization to work in the United States. Documents need to be presented no later than the third day of employment. Failure to do so will result in loss of employment at the university.E-Verify: The University of Texas at Austin use E-Verify to check the work authorization of all new hires effective May 2015. The university's company ID number for purposes of E-Verify is 854197. For more information about E-Verify, please see the following: - E-Verify Poster (English and Spanish) [PDF] - Right to Work Poster (English) [PDF] - Right to Work Poster (Spanish) [PDF] - --- Compliance: Employees may be required to report violations of law under Title IX and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act). If this position is identified a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified and provided resources for reporting. Responsible employees under Title IX are defined and outlined in HOP-3031. The Clery Act requires all prospective employees be notified of the availability of the Annual Security and Fire Safety report. You may access the most recent report here or obtain a copy at University Compliance Services, 1616 Guadalupe Street, UTA 2.206, Austin, Texas 78701.