Supervisory Foreign Affairs Officer

1 month ago


Washington, United States US Department of State - Agency Wide Full time

**Duties**:

- Exercises responsibility for conceiving, establishing, staffing, managing, and representing the GEC’s efforts to quantitatively and qualitatively assess foreign disinformation and propaganda.
- Oversees staff who are responsible for the development, testing, coordination, and deployment of the GEC’s state-of-the art data analytics and information sharing platform.
- Provides authoritative policy guidance and expert advice through the use of advanced analytics and systems.
- Analyzes complex political, social, economic, and military issues and provides authoritative guidance to departmental and interagency policymakers, and other audiences on important global developments.
- Develops approaches, recommendations, and programs to resolve issues arising from conflicting goals to ensure that the GEC achieves its strategic and tactical objectives.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- U.S. Citizenship is required.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.
- Statement of Employment & Financial Interest required prior to appointment.

**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-14 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 integrating analytics and research to quantitatively and qualitatively assess foreign disinformation and propaganda.
- Experience defining information requirements on important global developments and reporting to departmental and interagency policymakers.
- Experience analyzing complex technological, analytics, political, social, economic, and military issues/data to provide authoritative professional guidance to policymakers.
- Experience leveraging governmental and/or commercial analytic systems to characterize foreign actors’ propaganda and disinformation.

**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.**
- Ability to assign, review, and supervise the work of others;
- Objectivity and fairness in judging people on their ability, and situations on the facts and circumstances;
- Ability to adjust to change, work pressures, or difficult situations without undue stress;
- Willingness to consider new ideas or divergent points of view; and
- Capacity to "see the job through."

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

**Additional information**:

- **Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.** If eligible, applicants to this announcement may be referred t



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