Foreign Affairs Officer – Direct Hire Authority

U.S. Department of State

Place description

Duties

  • Serves as a acknowledged professional all through the Division and overseas affairs neighborhood in growing economies and in put up -crisis (battle/pure disasters) worldwide donor financing.
  • Analyzes a wide range of geopolitical elements to offer authoritative recommendation to senior management.
  • Formulates, guides, and conducts in-depth analysis on main political, social, financial, and/or army developments in areas of experience and prepares analyses supposed to be used by senior-level officers.
  • Drafts, presents, and defends policy- related analyses for Division and different Federal officers. Supplies briefings and written merchandise to prime administration officers and serves as a liaison with key Bureau employees.

Necessities

Circumstances of Employment

  • Incumbent shall be topic to random drug testing.
  • Efficiently move the E-Confirm employment verification verify. To be taught extra about E-Confirm, together with your rights and obligations, go to: www.dhs.gov/E-Confirm/
  • U.S. Citizenship is required.
  • Should be capable to receive and preserve a High Secret safety clearance.

{Qualifications}

Candidates should meet all of the qualification necessities described under by the deadline of this announcement. In case you are qualifying based mostly on schooling OR if there are necessary schooling necessities listed under, you MUST submit a replica of your faculty transcript along with your software. 

Candidates will need to have the required expertise or schooling as described under and meet any selective elements, when specified. BASIC REQUIREMENTS: Have a bachelor’s or graduate diploma from an accredited faculty or college in worldwide regulation, worldwide relations, political science, economics, historical past, sociology, geography, social or cultural anthropology, regulation, statistics, or within the humanities; OR Have a bachelor’s or graduate diploma from an accredited faculty or college that included a mix of programs, with no less than 24 semester hours in worldwide regulation and worldwide relations, political science, economics, historical past, sociology, geography, social or cultural anthropology, regulation, statistics, or within the humanities; OR Have 12 semester hours in one of many above disciplines and 12 semester hours in statistics / quantitative strategies. OR Have a mix of schooling and expertise the place your coursework was equal to a serious, or a mix of associated programs totaling no less than 24 semester hours, (as proven above), PLUS applicable related expertise OR extra schooling. OR Have accomplished no less than 4 years of applicable expertise in a single OR extra of the fields listed above in work related to worldwide organizations, issues, or different features of overseas affairs. (NOTE: qualifying work expertise could have been gained by way of residence, examine, educating, enterprise or business actions, army service, newspaper work, army or civil authorities actions, missionary or worldwide aid work, or different expertise in overseas nations.) Be aware: In case you are qualifying based mostly on schooling, you MUST submit transcripts as verification of instructional requirement by the deadline of this announcement. Should you fail to offer requested info, or the data you submit is inadequate to confirm your eligibility, you WILL lose consideration for this place.

IN ADDITION to the fundamental necessities, this place requires one 12 months of specialised expertise equal to no less than the GS-13 stage within the Federal service which supplied the applicant with the actual information, abilities and talents to carry out the duties of the place. Qualifying specialised expertise should display the next:

  • Expertise working with the Group for Financial Cooperation and Improvement
  • Expertise taking part in U.S. interagency coordination on infrastructure help
  • Expertise main U.S. efforts in multilateral initiatives associated to infrastructure

Be aware: In case you are qualifying based mostly on schooling, you MUST submit transcripts as verification of instructional requirement by the deadline of this announcement. Should you fail to offer requested info, or the data you submit is inadequate to confirm your eligibility, you WILL lose consideration for this place.

Schooling

 

See the {qualifications} part of this emptiness announcement for schooling necessities.

Schooling accomplished in overseas schools or universities could also be used to satisfy the schooling necessities when you can present that the overseas schooling is corresponding to that obtained in an accredited instructional establishment in the US. It’s your duty to offer such proof when making use of. For a listing of accredited organizations acknowledged as specializing in interpretation of overseas schooling credentials, go to: www.naces.org/members.php.

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