Foreign Affairs Specialist

Summary

Duties

Incumbent typical work assignments may include the following:

• Study, review, and adjustment of the strategies, concepts, programs, and budgets required to support Office of the Secretary of War (OSW) policy and program guidance.
• Initiates independent analyses of highly complex policy, strategy, concepts, and program issues, force posture alternatives, and implications of broad changes to the international environment to DoW programs.
• Managing team projects, including actively encouraging communication, coordination, innovation, and high quality team products.
• Develops or contributes testimony or other presentations to the Congress; accurately represents DoW positions during contact with the Congressional staff.
• Provides expert advice at the Assistant Secretary of War (ASW) or higher level on key strategy, planning, programming, and budgeting, and policy matters; prepares briefings, presentations, and decision memoranda to support deliberations and decisions by senior management; reviews and develops Policy positions and responses to action originating in other DoW and non-DoW offices or agencies that have implications for foreign policy and national security policy, strategy, program, planning, and budgets.

Job Description

Duties

Incumbent typical work assignments may include the following:

• Study, review, and adjustment of the strategies, concepts, programs, and budgets required to support Office of the Secretary of War (OSW) policy and program guidance.
• Initiates independent analyses of highly complex policy, strategy, concepts, and program issues, force posture alternatives, and implications of broad changes to the international environment to DoW programs.
• Managing team projects, including actively encouraging communication, coordination, innovation, and high quality team products.
• Develops or contributes testimony or other presentations to the Congress; accurately represents DoW positions during contact with the Congressional staff.
• Provides expert advice at the Assistant Secretary of War (ASW) or higher level on key strategy, planning, programming, and budgeting, and policy matters; prepares briefings, presentations, and decision memoranda to support deliberations and decisions by senior management; reviews and develops Policy positions and responses to action originating in other DoW and non-DoW offices or agencies that have implications for foreign policy and national security policy, strategy, program, planning, and budgets.