Foreign Affairs Officer - Direct Hire Authority

Summary This position is located in the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization, Office of Communications, Policy, and Partnerships (CSO/CPP), which develops strategies with regional bureaus and offices to integrate new and emerging partners into early warning assessments, planning and operations, and coordinates CSO activities with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and other non-traditional actors in conflict operations. Responsibilities Coordinates conflict prevention approaches and strategies in a manner that fully reflect Congressional responsibilities and concerns, as well as the foreign policy interests of the Department, Bureau, and their partners. Prepares and provides background material for briefing materials for DOS and CSO witnesses appearing before Congress. Prepares Department and Bureau officials for oversight and budget hearings. Provides authoritative advice and guidance to senior officials concerning the development of innovative approaches to coalition building, formulation of strategic partnerships and strengthening of community resilience and local empowerment. Represents the Bureau in Departmental, interagency, international and NGO settings. Responsible for identifying, formulating and advancing multinational and regional institutional partnerships that support CSO’s domestic and foreign engagements. Analyzes, strategizes and develops conflict and stabilization policy and program recommendations for partner agencies and organizations; develops background information, tactics & approaches for building partnerships that provide key CSO objectives. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Applicants must meet all the qualification requirements described below by the closing date of this announcement. If you are qualifying based on education OR if there are mandatory education requirements listed below, you MUST submit a copy of your college transcript with your application. Applicants must have the required experience or education as described below and meet any selective factors, when specified. BASIC REQUIREMENTS: Have a bachelor's or graduate degree from an accredited college or university in international law, international relations, political science, economics, history, sociology, geography, social or cultural anthropology, law, statistics, or in the humanities; OR Have a bachelor's or graduate degree from an accredited college or university that included a combination of courses, with at least 24 semester hours in international law and international relations, political science, economics, history, sociology, geography, social or cultural anthropology, law, statistics, or in the humanities; OR Have 12 semester hours in one of the above disciplines and 12 semester hours in statistics / quantitative methods. OR Have a combination of education and experience where your coursework was equivalent to a major, or a combination of related courses totaling at least 24 semester hours, (as shown above), PLUS appropriate relevant experience OR additional education. OR Have completed at least 4 years of appropriate experience in one OR more of the fields listed above in work associated with international organizations, problems, or other aspects of foreign affairs. (NOTE: qualifying work experience may have been gained through residence, study, teaching, business or commercial activities, military service, newspaper work, military or civil government activities, missionary or international relief work, or other experience in foreign countries.) Note: If you are qualifying based on education, you MUST submit transcripts as verification of educational requirement by the closing date of this announcement. If you fail to provide requested information, or the information you submit is insufficient to verify your eligibility, you WILL lose consideration for this position. IN ADDITION to the basic requirements, this position requires one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 level in the Federal service which provided the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of the position. Qualifying specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience providing recommendations and guidance, including written analyses and briefs, to senior officials on legislative initiatives. Experience with foreign policy goals, objectives, programs, priorities and relationships, and the relevancy and implications of global political developments and events. Experience in conflict prevention, crisis response and stabilization policies, programs and practices. Education See the qualifications section of this vacancy announcement for education requirements. Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the education requirements if you can show that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying. For a list of accredited organizations recognized as specializing in interpretation of foreign education credentials, visit: www.naces.org/members.php. Additional Information · For reasonable accommodation at the U.S. Department of State, please contact the Office of Accessibility and Accommodations at (202) 663-3474 or [email protected]. · If eligible, telework and/or remote work agreements may be permitted with supervisory approval. Please note that any approved remote work arrangement is subject to the locality pay area of the alternative telework worksite. · Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. If eligible, applicants to this announcement may be referred to similar positions in any Bureau/Office listed on this announcement for approximately 240 days. Telework eligibility and security clearance requirements may vary for such similar positions.