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Foreign Affairs Officer (Quantum Advisor) – Direct Hire Authority
Other Agencies and Independent Organizations · District of Columbia, District of Columbia · Closes in 2 days

1 Check you can apply
2 Resume and documents
3 Apply on USAJOBS
4 After you apply

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1 Check you can apply You are here

Who can apply: The public.

The job is open to the public, but the conditions of employment say U.S. citizenship is required. The announcement also mentions U.S. nationals and people who owe allegiance to the U.S.

Experience: You need one year of specialized federal experience at the GS-13 level. It must show you developed technology policy recommendations, coordinated with stakeholders on tech policy, and wrote policy analysis or briefings for senior decision-makers. Separately, 4 years of relevant foreign affairs experience can meet the basic requirement instead of a degree.

Education: A bachelor's or graduate degree from an accredited college in a listed field such as international relations, political science, economics, history, law, statistics, or the humanities. Or at least 24 semester hours of those subjects. Or 12 semester hours in one of those fields plus 12 in statistics or quantitative methods. Foreign degrees can count if you show they are comparable to accredited U.S. education.

Experience can be paid or unpaid, volunteer work included: if it matches the duties, it counts. The full rules are in the announcement.

2 Resume and documents

Write a federal resume for this job. For each job you held, give the month and year you started and ended, your hours per week and what you did, using the words of the experience the announcement asks for. Many announcements accept resumes of up to 2 pages: check this one.

Resume ready: dates, hours per week, duties Resume, no more than two pages, with start and end dates (month/year) and hours per week worked College transcripts if you qualify through education; official sealed transcripts are required if selected DD-214 only if you claim a veterans' preference, which does not apply to this job ICTAP/CTAP documents only if they apply to you

3 Apply on USAJOBS

Closes in 2 days (November 5, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).

The announcement may close before the closing date once 100 applications are received.

You sign in to USAJOBS with a Login.gov account, answer the questionnaire and upload your documents, then you submit. Answer the questionnaire honestly: your resume must show what you claim.

How they rate you: You take the ApplyGov online competency assessments, scored from 70 to 100, and the top candidates have their resumes reviewed for minimum qualifications. Resumes longer than two pages are removed, and answers not supported by your resume can lower your rating.

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4 After you apply

In USAJOBS, under Applications, you can see where your application stands: received, reviewed, referred to the hiring manager or not, then selected or not. It can take a few weeks.

For the interview, prepare three examples with the STAR method: the Situation, the Task, what you did (Action) and the Result.

If they choose you: a tentative offer, then a background check, a security clearance (Top Secret), then the final offer with your start date.

Tips for this job:

Your resume must show start and end dates by month and year, plus hours per week, and stay within two pages.
If you qualify through education, send transcripts with your application, or you will lose consideration.
Describe your GS-13 level experience clearly and specifically, since the agency does not assume what you have done.

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