Agriculture, Rural Development
Public Affairs Specialist
Agriculture, Rural Development · Department of Agriculture · Champaign, Illinois
- Pay
- $61,722 – $97,087 per year
- Grade
- GS 11–12
- Schedule
- Full-time
- Appointment
- Permanent
- Openings
- 1
- Series
- 1035 Public Affairs
- Posted
- 17 Sep 2026
- Closes
- closes in 2 days1 October 2026, end of the day Eastern
Who may apply Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) Federal employees - Competitive service Individuals with disabilities Land & base management Military spouses Special authorities Veterans
Also Telework eligible Clearance: Other
Summary
This position serves as the Public Information Officer (PIO) for the Illinois State Office to develop and administer a statewide public information program designed to maximize public exposure and affirm the mission and objectives of Rural Development (RD).
From the announcement on USAJOBS, the agency’s own words.
Applications are made on USAJOBS. This page is a listing, not an application form, and the announcement is authoritative wherever the two differ.
Method
Where every figure comes from.
The source
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s USAJOBS register, read through its Search API on 29 September 2026 at 1:13 a.m. Eastern: 12,705 open announcements held, 446 overseas ones left out. Titles, pay, grades, closing dates and places are as OPM publishes them; where a page here and the announcement differ, the announcement is right. USAJOBS data are a work of the U.S. government, not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. §105), read under the terms of use the API publishes at developer.usajobs.gov.
The two rules
A job expires: every announcement leaves every page here at the end of its closing day, Eastern time, whenever the register was last read. Two figures, never one: an announcement naming more than 15 towns is a nationwide notice, counted apart and filed under none of them.
Applying
Applications are made on USAJOBS and nowhere else. This desk is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, OPM or any federal agency, collects nothing from you and has no part in any hiring decision.
What you type
A search travels only as the address of the next page on labs.llc (?query=). The server keeps the day’s answer to each search under a hash of its words, never who asked, and discards it at midnight Eastern; the site’s analytics records page views, and that address is part of the view it records.
The full method · the four axes of the harvest, the 10,000 cap, the nationwide cutoff and where it came from, closing dates, and what is not here.