That should be the head+face of the mod role I think - just getting someone with mod powers only would not help much.
And staff need to change their approach completely, Mindset, get a new leader that can communicate, try to reward great RP, most improved players, factions that are trying, praise publicly those who put in the effort, let people do submissions, reward great RP, sportsmanship, organizing - the change should start at the top. You have an arbitrary system that can get at anyone at your whim's desires and you use only negatively in a community suffocating way. For OFs instead of threatening they will lose officialdom if they don't adhere to the proposed heavily bureocratic system, start rewarding great RP by putting it into canon quickly etc. Not just in events pre-telegraphed. The environment is very hostile right now, what you do is and forever will be just forcing people into doing the bare minimum.
Make the game fun instead, make us log and instead of only fearing that you will publicly shame us and ban us for things outside of the rules you happen to dislike, make us expect positivity and actual motivation to be better too, because, this is just an ancient game, nothing more, we want to have a good time playing it.
