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This is a residual BLS bucket — communications coordinators, media specialists, program assistants, captioners, content and outreach staff who don't fit the writer, editor, PR, or broadcast codes. The modal worker's day is drafting copy and newsletters, formatting and posting content, tracking coverage, transcribing and captioning, and coordinating logistics over email — nearly all of which current models do at usable quality. What persists is the in-person, relationship-carrying slice: running an event, managing a stakeholder or community group, and owning what goes out under an organization's name.
Mixed — a routine tier and a judgment tier. Drafting the weekly newsletter, cutting captions to reading speed, pulling a clip report, and re-sizing the same post for four platforms are all things a model does at first-draft quality today — the 8 rather than a 3 comes from the residual slice this code hides: standing at the check-in table at a community forum, chasing an interpreter who no-showed, and coaxing a quote out of a program director who won't answer email.
Some physical or field component. There is a real body in this job on event days — hauling banners and A/V, staffing a booth, shooting phone video at a site visit, sitting in a booth doing live CART or realtime captioning — but it's episodic and in controlled rooms your employer booked, which is why it lands at 6 and not at the 13+ of someone whose worksite is a roof or a roadside.
No licence, no signature requirement. Nothing here is licensed: there is no statute a communications coordinator can be struck off under, CPACC or a CRC captioning credential is a hiring preference at best, and when a post goes wrong the exposure sits with the agency, the executive director, or general counsel — not with the person who queued it.
Some relationship component. The newsletter subscriber and the follower have no idea who assembled what they read, so most output is genuinely anonymous; the 8 is carried by the narrower book of people who do know your name — the neighborhood association chair, the volunteer roster, the reporter who calls you first, the deaf attendee who trusts your captioning — relationships that are real but transferable to your replacement within a quarter.
Meaningful discretion. Most calls run against a style guide, a brand kit, an approved messaging document, and a posting calendar, but you regularly decide alone and fast whether to post during a local tragedy, how to phrase a correction, and what gets escalated to the director before it goes live — discretion with reputational stakes, exercised inside a chain of approval, which is a 7 rather than a 14.
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