| @DIRCentralSouth Facebook Live Foreign Service Office Management Careers November 30 2021 – Noon ET (11am CT) | ||
| Move over old stereotypes. Our Office Management Specialists (OMS) are diplomats who coordinate the flow of information, manage projects, and provide essential administrative support to Ambassadors and other high-level officials at U.S. embassies and consulates abroad. Join Diplomat in Residence-Central South, J. Nathan Bland, and Office Management Specialist, Teri Scott, for an information session focusing on administrative careers in the Foreign Service. In this session, they will speak with Cynthia Hoof, an OMS serving in Djibouti, Djibouti, and who manages operations, people, events, and technology in this unique public service career. Teri and Ron Packowitz – @DIRMidwest – will host an additional session on Monday, December 6 at 5pm ET/4pm CT, featuring OMSs serving in Washington, D.C. Join Brenda Graves, Stephanie Quiñones, and Anastasia Almanzar for a conversation about working in domestic assignments. If you’re interested in attending these sessions, please click on a date and time to RSVP. | ||
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What does The State Department do? “The Department of State advises the President and leads the nation in foreign policy issues. The State Department negotiates treaties and agreements with foreign entities, and represents the United States at the United Nations.”
The U.S. Department of State is part of the Executive Branch of government and is principally responsible for foreign affairs and foreign trade. It advises the president on the formulation and execution of foreign policy. As chief executive, the president has overall responsibility for the foreign policy of the United States. The Department of State’s primary objective in the conduct of foreign relations is to promote the long-range security and well-being of the United States. The department determines and analyzes facts relating to U.S. overseas interests, makes recommendations on policy and future action, and takes the necessary steps to carry out established policy. In so doing, the department engages in continuous consultations with the Congress, other U.S. departments and agencies, and foreign governments; negotiates treaties and agreements with foreign nations; speaks for the United States in the United Nations and in more than 50 major international organizations in which the United States participates; and represents the United States at more than 800 international conferences annually.
The Department of State, the senior executive department of the U.S. government, was established by an act of July 27, 1789, as the Department of Foreign Affairs and was renamed Department of State by an act of September 15, 1789.
What is happening now?
The Department of State this week announced sanctions against the government of the Eastern African nation of Eritrea, claiming the country’s activities in neighboring Ethiopia are posing a threat to the latter’s stability.
Bills:
Introduced: Sponsor: Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]
This bill was referred to the Senate Committee on Appropriations which will consider it before sending it to the Senate floor for consideration.
Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE] is a member of the committee.
H.R. 5665: To establish in the Department of State the Office to Monitor and Combat Islamophobia, and for other purposes.
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