Arabic-L:PEDA:FSI Job

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1) Subject:FSI Job

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Date: 09 Jan 2004
From:James E Bernhardt <BernhardtJE at state.gov>
Subject:FSI Job

CAREER OPPORTUNITY

George P. Shultz
National Foreign Affairs Training Center
Foreign Service Institute
U.S. Department of State

An Equal Opportunity Employer

ANNOUNCEMENT NUMBER:  FSI-04-01
POSITION TITLE: Supervisory Instructional Systems Specialist
OFFICE & LOCATION: FSI/SLS, SA-42, Arlington, Virginia
SERIES AND GRADE: GG-1750-12/13
PROMOTION POTENTIAL:  GG-13
OPENING DATE:  01/16/2004
CLOSING DATE:  02/06/2004
SUPERVISORY:    Yes
SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED: Secret
NUMBER OF POSITIONS TO BE FILLED: 3 total- (1) Turkic, (1) Arabic, (1)
Slavic
AREA OF CONSIDERATION: All Qualified Candidates

COMMENTS:  This is an Excepted Service position.  This is a renewable
appointment.  However, the initial appointment will not exceed two
years.
Selected candidate does not acquire Civil Service "competitive status".

Duties and Responsibilities:
This position is located in the School of Language Studies, Foreign
Service
Institute (FSI/SLS).  The School of Language Studies consists of
approximately 400 Language and Culture Instructors and supervisory-level
personnel and provides training and testing services amounting to more
than
1,000,000 student hours annually in over 60 languages for the
Department of
State and for more than 30 other government entities. Courses vary in
length
depending on language proficiency requirements for employees and family
members of the Department of State who are assigned to embassies and
consulates abroad.

In this position you would manage and direct a foreign language training
program or programs which vary widely by numbers of Language and Culture
Instructors (LCI's) and students supervised, frequency of course
presentations and lengths of courses.   You would also:
* Recruit, train and develop Language and Culture Instructors to teach
language and culture of assigned language(s).
* Exercise professional linguistic skills to develop language training
program(s) to bring students to high levels of language proficiency.
* Manage groups of instructors and students whose political, cultural
and
religious differences make coordination and counseling efforts
difficult and
challenging.
* Design new courses and/or make extensive revisions in existing
training
courses.
* Become certified to administer and score official proficiency tests.

If you would like a complete announcement with instructions on how to
apply,
please contact me by return email bernhardtje at state.gov

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