State Dept seeks mid-career experts to join Foreign Service in ‘lateral entry’ pilot

Summary: The State Department is calling on mid-career experts in the private sector to join the Foreign Service. Rather than start out at an entry-level rank, the Foreign Service, through its new, Lateral Entry Pilot Program, is looking to hire these experts at mid-level FP-03 and FP-02 ranks. The congressionally mandated, five-year pilot is a departure from the Foreign Service’s focus on recruiting prospective hires early in their careers, and retaining them for the duration of their career. Lucia Piazza, the deputy assistant secretary for the State Department’s Bureau of Global Talent Management, said the department under the pilot is taking a new approach to filling in some of its workforce gaps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices