Summary This Temporary, Intermittent position NTE 1 year/1040 hours is located in the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM). The Foreign Affairs Officer (FAO) works with overseas staff to monitor and evaluate PRM funded programs ensuring accountability to beneficiaries and U.S. taxpayers. The FAO is responsible for monitoring, analyzing, and assessing the effectiveness of humanitarian aid efforts for an assigned assistance program area or geographic region. Responsibilities Monitor, analyze, and assess the effectiveness of humanitarian aid efforts for an assigned assistance program area or geographic region within the Bureau. Serve as the negotiator for all incoming actions from Departmental offices, US embassies/posts, other USG agencies. Monitor developing political situations or issues of administrative management as reported or identified. Administer U.S. refugee assistance and admissions programs and international population issues. Provide technical, program policy, and program planning consultations and orientation to coworkers and management officials in the Department and the interagency arena. Participate in interagency working groups and meetings and makes recommendations to these bodies and to Department management on new policies or program management approaches that will assist in achieving humanitarian assistance program goals. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Applicants must meet all the required 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. NOTE: Applicants must meet time-in-grade and time after competitive appointment requirements, by the closing date of this announcement. Time-In-Grade Requirements: Federal applicants must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade to satisfy time-in-grade restrictions, per 5CFR 300, Subpart F. 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. IN ADDITION to the basic requirements, this position requires one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 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 utilizing theories and principles of international relations/ foreign affairs to analyze and evaluate factors and conditions relevant to the administration of U.S. foreign policy programs. Experience interpreting and applying U.S. foreign policies, objectives and programs on refugee matters, the Refugee Act, the International Refugee Convention and Protocol and the Geneva Conventions to develop, coordinate, present, and advise on U.S. positions and interest on refugee issues and programs. Experience applying U.S. refugee relief policies, goals and objectives and relating them to U.S. overall policy goals both domestic and overseas. 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. 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 OAA@state.gov. 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 other similar positions in other Bureaus/Offices in the Department for up to 240 days. Telework eligibility and security clearance requirements may vary for such similar positions.