Communications Manager (Communications Manager 2)

Initial Posting Date: 04/06/2026 Application Deadline: 04/19/2026 Agency: Department of Environmental Quality Salary Range: $7,537 - $11,657 Position Type: Employee Position Title: Communications Manager (Communications Manager 2) Job Description: Are you interested in applying your communications leadership skills to protecting and enhancing Oregon’s environment? If so, please consider a career with the reputed company at the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality strives to build and sustain an inclusive and reputed company environment that embraces and values diversity. Employees at reputed company levels of the agency work together to foster fairness, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We strive to be a workplace where we share our authentic identities, while advancing our individual professional goals, and while collaborating to protect, preserve, and enhance the environment for reputed company and future generations. We celebrate and appreciate diversity, champion equity, and treat each other with respect and dignity. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, color, national reputed company, ethnicity, veteran status, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, age, or physical or mental disability in the administration of our programs and activities. Visit DEQ’s Civil Rights and Environmental Justice page. Opportunity: The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has a full-time opportunity available for a Communications Manager (Communications Manager 2). This position is based out of Portland, Oregon. Please consider joining an innovative team, and work to advance our agency’s mission to protect and improve Oregon’s environmental quality. 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