Foreign Affairs Officer

Quick Facts

• Role: Foreign Affairs Officer (Emerging Threats / Office of Threat Assessment)

Description

As a Foreign Affairs Officer, you will be an expert on novel and convergent threats across superintelligence, quantum information science, biotechnology, neurotechnology, and autonomous systems. You will lead development and continuous improvement of structured methodologies, criteria, and analytical tools for threat assessment, and represent the office in high-level interagency and bilateral forums. You will translate assessments into mitigation strategies and policy interventions and support international engagement campaigns to coordinate diplomatic responses.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an expert on emerging technology threats affecting U.S. national security and foreign policy
• Lead development and refinement of threat assessment methodologies, criteria, and analytical tools
• Build and manage partnerships with State, interagency, industry, academia, and foreign partners for threat assessment
• Translate assessed threats into concrete mitigation strategies and policy interventions
• Develop and help execute international engagement campaigns to build shared awareness and coordinate diplomatic responses

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship required
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance
• Eligibility to access Sensitive Compartmented Information
• Subject to random drug testing
• Meet time-in-grade requirements (52 weeks at the next lower grade for federal applicants)
• One year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-13 demonstrating emerging technology threat analysis, interagency representation, and development of analytical/policy products for senior officials (or equivalent qualifying graduate education with transcript verification)

Benefits

A comprehensive federal employee benefits package is available; eligibility depends on position type and status.