{"id":5228,"date":"2024-03-26T13:46:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T20:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/?page_id=5228"},"modified":"2025-05-22T11:10:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:10:01","slug":"information-specialist-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/classified-staff\/information-specialist-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Information Specialist 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UW CODE AND REPRESENTATIVE GROUP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17774 (NE S SEIU 925 Non Supv)<br \/>\n22431 (NE H NI SEIU 925 Non Supv)<\/p>\n<p><strong>DEFINITION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Under technical direction, participate in writing and editing assignments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Positions in this class write drafts of and edit standard communications material. Work is performed under direction of a senior information specialist or equivalent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TYPICAL WORK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Under established guidelines, gather background information by research and personal interviews, and write drafts of newsletters, brochures, publicity releases (radio, TV, newspapers, etc.), proposals, speeches, memoranda, etc.;<\/p>\n<p>Assist in liaison work between clients, publication and production personnel; arrange for distribution of communications material;<\/p>\n<p>Translate statistical reports, research documents, abstracts\/concepts, and verbal directions into prose and pictorial concepts;<\/p>\n<p>Edit copy for style and accuracy of material;<\/p>\n<p>May prepare layouts and paste-ups; participate in photographic duties; take photographs, etc.;<\/p>\n<p>Perform related duties as required.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bachelor of Arts&#8217; Degree in Communications, English, Journalism, or related field. Additional full-time writing\/editing experience may substitute year-for-year for educational requirement.<\/p>\n<p>Equivalent education and\/or experience may substitute for minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license, certification, and\/or registration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CLASSIFICATION HISTORY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>02\/07\/1973: New Class<br \/>\n12\/14\/1973: Revise Class<br \/>\n05\/01\/2000: New to CSA<br \/>\n06\/01\/2005: CSR Class Conversion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UW CODE AND REPRESENTATIVE GROUP 17774 (NE S SEIU 925 Non Supv) 22431 (NE H NI SEIU 925 Non Supv) DEFINITION Under technical direction, participate in writing and editing assignments. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5228","page","type-page","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5228"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9279,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5228\/revisions\/9279"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v1cypwr8vx2.c.updraftclone.com\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}