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Plans, develops and coordinates comprehensive community education, communication, and marketing strategies for the Meridian Police Department (MPD) and the Meridian Fire Department (MFD); provides direction to the Police Department and Fire Department involving public information, internal information, and community relations activities; publicizes MPDs and MFDs progress and accomplishments, points of view, and programs; may develop and distribute print media.\ \ Essential Duties & Responsibilities:\ Primary work is with MPD with regular involvement with MFD;\ \ Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with media outlets;\ \ Serve as Police and Fire Departments media spokesperson when needed and responds to media inquiries;\ \ Schedules and facilitates news conferences, editorial meetings and interviews with news media;\ \ Manages MPD and MFD social media accounts;\ \ Compiles, provides background and prepares talking points for the Chiefs and other members of the MPD and MFD for media interviews and presentations;\ \ Manages database and maintains system of news release distribution and contact lists for distribution;\ \ Advises administration on effective communication practices including public relations (PR) information dissemination and provides media training for staff;\ \ Writes information releases and other messages about incidents, events, service, crime prevention and other areas of interest to the community;\ \ Must be able to be on-call as well as available to work some evenings and weekends;\ \ Speaks publicly and assists with the development of agency-wide educational programs for associations, groups, schools and other public and private organizations;\ \ Designs, produces and/or assists with the production of brochures, flyers, slide shows, videos, displays, graphics, multimedia presentations and other informational materials;\ \ Develops and enhances existing internal systems of communication to support PR and community relations information dissemination;\ \ Keeps the MPD and MFD command informed of potential controversies and public issues involving public safety agencies;\ \ Liaison with the City Communications Manager and assists with external City communication and internal communication for the departments and to City leaders;\ \ Establishes regular communication channels with the public (i.e. newsletters, etc.);\ \ Performs related functions as required.