Administration department looks to hire public affairs officer
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By Katherine Gregg While Governor Carcieri hammers the need to reduce state spending, his Department of Administration has posted an opening for a newly created job for a public relations person -- at a salary of $66,677 to $75,598 -- to assist new DOA director Jerome Williams with communications and the release of media information.' The only other person in state government with the same job title and classification code, "chief public affairs officer,'' is Dana Alexander Nolfe, who worked for Williams during his stint as state transportation director last year. No DOA director in recent history has had a press secretary. The Department of Administration is the hub of state government with control over hiring, contracting, purchasing, auditing and state-owned and leased property management. Until a recent rash of retirements and departures, a string of administration directors have relied on the key people within the agency to respond to media requests for information, from the state controller to the state purchasing chief to the state personnel administrator. The application period runs from yesterday until Aug. 8, 2008. Job qualifications include education "such as may have been gained through possession of a masters degree in public administration, journalism or a related field ... and experience such as may have been gained through considerable employment in a highly responsible position involving responsibility for the research, analysis, policy development and dissemination of information or any combination of education and experience that shall be substantially equivalent.'' There was no response from the governor's office to questions about the rationale for creating a new job for the Department of Administration, where the money is coming from and why Williams believes he needs a public affairs officer when his predecessors did not require someone to handle public and media inquiries. 
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This administration is once again bringing in a big dollar person for an invented position instead of taking a good look at what is really going on in the Dept of Administration. Some one needs to tell Emperor Don that he has no clothes.
All of the smoke and mirrors cannot hide the fact that DOA and DOR are both failing because of unfilled NECESSARY positions. It is just a matter of time until the holes in Gary Sasse's Department land on the front page of the journal.
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I thinks its time to start a recall campaign. After all it is allowable under RI law. We can not take two more years of Governor Carcieri.
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Why stop with this job posting, there have been hundreds of postings on a monthly basis. Check out the DOH, rumor has it that a very high paying job was just filled. Way ta go "Don".
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