Posted: 12:54 am PT
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When you hear that people are besides themselves … because in the latest Expanded Professional Associates Program (EPAP) qualifications round, posts don’t have anyone who qualified for anything because the qualifications bars are set too damn high. Is this the State Department’s way of showing “we care about spouses” so we created 400 new jobs but “don’t blame us” if you can’t qualify for these jobs (that were purposely designed to screen out just about everyone)?

For more about the EPAP program and the new qualification standards introduced under Tillerson’s tenure but now carried over under Pompeo’s watch, see below:

• @StateDept Releases New Strategery For Diplomatic Spouse Professional Employment #Ugh)
• @StateDept Publishes EPAP Positions Available Now/Summer 2018 #Feb20Lists #EFMs
• Unemployment Status of @StateDept Family Members Overseas (Fall 2017)

Oh, but if you’re a family member and have an MA/MS in Business or Public Administration with a concentration in Accounting or Finance and no specialized experience, HURRY! There is a vacancy waiting just for you at the US Embassy in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire as  a financial management professional associate (FP-03).  The good news is they’ve updated this requirement in February 2018. In January, they previously required that the financial management position at the FP-03 level must have a Ph.D. in Business or Public Administration, a requirement that they do not even ask of Financial Management Officer candidates.  But hey spouses are special, right?

Also a bonus tweet for everyone who are the “unsung heroes” of the State Department from the Acting Director General of the Foreign Service:

Family members are the unsung heroes of the @StateDept. Their love, support & sacrifice enable foreign service & civil service employees to serve the American people. #InternationalDayofFamilies

— William E. Todd (@StateDG) May 15, 2018

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