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Department of State Headquarters is hiring an Editor. The Department of State seeks a temporary, intermittent editor to review and rewrite human rights reports, serve as a point of contact, advise geographic desks, and conduct negotiations, located in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. The position is open to CTAP/ICTAP candidates and requires a Secret security clearance.
Key focus areas include Review and significantly rewrite draft human rights reports to ensure accuracy and uniformity, Serve as point of contact on reports with geographic bureaus, State Department officers, and NGOs, and Advise geographic desks on obtaining comments and clearances for reports and ensure factual accuracy.
Important skills include Human Rights Report Compilation, Writing And Editing, Research Methods, Negotiation, Point Of Contact, and Communication.
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This position is open to CTAP/ICTAP candidates, and that if they are found well-qualified, will be afforded selection priority. This is a TEMPORARY, INTERMITTENT position located in The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL). This announcement may be used to fill multiple offices within this bureau. Applicants must meet all the required qualification requirements described below by the closing date of this announcement. 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 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to 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 compiling human rights reports. - Experience writing and editing, plus command of sources and research methods to develop information on programs, policies and functions relating to human rights. There is no substitute of education for specialized experience for the GS-14 position. Reviews and often significantly rewrites draft human rights reports from posts to ensure their accuracy, uniformity, and comprehensive coverage as required by law. Serves as a point of contact on these reports with geographic bureaus and other State Department Officers as well as other U.S. governmental agency officials and representatives of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Advises geographic desks in their efforts to obtain comments/clearances on each of the reports and form a multiplicity of other functional bureaus and ensures requested changes are factually accurate and compatible with overall human rights policy. Conducts sensitive and often delicate negotiations with other key Department officials, up to and including Offices Directors and Ambassadors on the content of the reports. Security clearance required: Secret
Education Education requirements do not apply to this vacancy announcement.
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