Foreign Affairs Officer - Washington, United States - US Department of State - Agency Wide

US Department of State - Agency Wide
US Department of State - Agency Wide
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3 weeks ago

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Duties:


  • Cocoordinates the Policy Risk and Opportunity Planning (PROP) Group, comprised of Department principals and charged with leading strategic foresight and proactive policy planning.
  • Engages office leadership, external stakeholders, interagency, and diplomatic counterparts on critical policy issues identified through PROP, leading to the development of policy options and recommendations, programs, engagements, and other efforts.
  • Coleads efforts to produce a watchlist of plausible future scenarios that could implicate U.S. policy objectives through open source and classified inputs and coordinates intraDepartmental planning groups.
  • Participates in interagency discussions relating to strategic foresight or policy planning, including discussion that are the direct result of specific PROP projects.
  • Serves as S/P's internal expert on advanced foresight and planning analytic techniques and serves as S/P's liaison to other internal and external stakeholders.

Requirements:


Conditions of Employment:


  • U.S. Citizenship is required.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.
  • Obtain/maintain eligibility to access Sensitive Compartmented Information

Qualifications:


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 in analyzing and developing innovative and forwardlooking policy frameworks and proposals.
  • Experience in advanced analytic techniques, including but not limited to red teaming and assumptions testing, premortems, backcasting, whatif analysis, scenario planning, and policy gaming and tabletop exercises.
  • Experience in leading crosscutting teams and effective writing and briefing senior officials.

Education:

See the qualifications section of this vacancy announcement for education requirements.


Additional information:


  • If eligible, telework agreements may be permitted with supervisory approval.
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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.

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