Communications & Public Relations Specialist (Program Coordinator 2) (PCN 253834)

Salary: $3,119.25 Biweekly
Location : Anchorage International Airport, AK
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 55771
Department: Transportation and Public Facilities
Division: IAD-International Airport Systems Office
Opening Date: 10/20/2026
Closing Date: 10/30/2026 5:00 PM Alaska
Division: International Airport Systems Office
Position Open To: Alaska Residents Only
Bargaining Unit: General Government
Range: 20

Job Description
ATTENTION ALASKA RESIDENTS
The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) Anchorage International Airport is looking for a full-time Communication and Public Relations Specialist to Keep Alaska Moving!
Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) is both dynamic and rewarding. This role involves crafting compelling narratives, managing communication strategies, and ensuring the smooth flow of information between the airport, stakeholders, and the public. By combining creativity with a deep understanding of aviation, you'll help maintain ANC's stellar reputation and keep travelers well-informed, all while supporting Anchorage's key transportation hub.
What you will be doing:
As the Communications and Public Relations Specialist for Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC), you will play a key role in shaping how one of the world's busiest cargo airports connects with the public, media, travelers, and community. You will coordinate public information and media relations, develop engaging content for social media and digital platforms, support marketing and community outreach initiatives, and communicate important airport projects, services, and operational updates. You will work closely with airport leadership, airlines, tenants, government agencies, and community partners to promote the airport's achievements, strengthen stakeholder relationships, and support effective communications during emergencies and other high-profile events. This dynamic position offers the opportunity to showcase Anchorage's role as a global aviation hub while helping maintain public trust and confidence in airport operations.
Who we are looking for:
To be successful in this position, the selected applicant will possess the following core competencies:

• Communications and Media: Knowledge of the production, communication and dissemination of information and ideas to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media and social media.
• Project Management: Knowledge of the principles, methods, or tools for developing, scheduling, coordinating, and managing projects and resources, including monitoring and inspecting costs, work, and contractor performance,
• Oral & 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.

To view the general description and example of duties for positions please go to the following link: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/Alaska/

Minimum Qualifications
Competency Description
The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations, as opposed to specific tasks, and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competency's description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to successfully meet the competency, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation.

Please ensure your application (through work history (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in

• Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving: uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach to address problems or opportunities or manage a situation by drawing on one's knowledge and experience base and calling on other references and resources as necessary.

• Compliance: Knowledge of procedures for assessing, evaluating, and monitoring programs or projects for compliance with Federal laws, regulations, and guidance.

• Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.

• Planning and Evaluating: Organizes work, sets priorities, and determines resource requirements; determines short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them; coordinates with other organizations or parts of the organization to accomplish goals; monitors progress and evaluates outcomes.

• Organizational Awareness: Knows the organization's mission and functions, and how its social, political, and technological systems work and operates effectively within them; this includes the programs, policies, procedures, rules, and regulations of the organization.

Equivalent to those typically gained by:

Training from an accredited college or university in any field and/or progressively responsible professional experience developing, planning, coordinating, and implementing a program, project, business, organization, or major components of a program, including having administrative authority over the program/project funding, staff, and/or overall operations.
Special Note:

"Competencies" means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.
"Typically gained by" means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.
"Training" and "education" are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, on-line, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs.
"Professional experience" means work that is creative, analytical, evaluative, and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the profession's principles, concepts, theories, and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment.
"Progressively responsible" means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.

Additional Required Information
**NOTE: PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY**
At time of interview, please provide:

• Three (3) professional references with current contact information (phone number or email address)

AIRPORT SECURITY BADGE
Candidates for this position must be eligible for an airport identification badge in accordance with which requires fingerprinting and a criminal background check. The successful applicant must pass a fingerprint-based criminal history record check as well as a comprehensive background investigation, along with a Transportation Security Administration Security Threat Assessment.

The successful candidate will need to be able to successfully complete the required fingerprint based criminal history records check and a Security Threat Assessment, per Transportation Security Administration regulations (49 CFT 1542.209 and SE 152-04-08G). You will need to successfully pass the Criminal Justice Information report (CJIS) Security and Awareness test and clear customs as outlined in 19 CFR 122.181.188.
ALASKA RESIDENTS ONLY Please be sure to check our residency definition to determine if you qualify.

SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS
For your application to be evaluated you must answer the Supplemental Questions.

The State of Alaska (SOA) uses four levels of proficiency to measure and describe an applicant's level of competence in applying certain behaviors, knowledge, skills, and abilities to accomplish a specific task. The four proficiency levels are: Mastery, Fluency, Literacy, and Discovery. You will need to rate your proficiency level for each competency listed in the supplemental questions.

EDUCATION To verify education is being used to meet and/or support the required minimum qualifications/competencies, you must fill in the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials used to meet or support the minimum qualifications/competencies for a position and are required with each application. (Unofficial is okay; please ensure the institution/URL name is listed on the transcripts). Transcripts can be attached at the time of application or provided at the time of interview; if not, transcripts will be required before employment.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOREIGN EDUCATIONEducation completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above requirements, if applicable. If utilizing this education you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs; or an accredited U.S. state university reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the state university. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.

WORK EXPERIENCEIf using work experience not