Consular Assistant

**Duties**:
**Qualifications and Evaluations**:

- Requirements:

- Public Trust (Low Risk) security clearance.
- Education Requirements:
**Without substitution**: University level in business, finance or law and a minimum of five years of experience in finance, vouchering or managing budgets and one year in contracting and project management.

**With Substitution**: Secondary school and a minimum of eight years of experience in finance, vouchering or managing budgets and one year in contracting and project management. (**PARIS-2024-040S)**

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**Full performance**: Secondary school and a minimum of eight years of experience in finance, vouchering or managing budgets and one year in contracting and project management (**grade 8**)

**Training Level**: Secondary school and a minimum of seven years of experience in finance, vouchering or managing budgets and one year in contracting and project management (**grade 7**)- Evaluations:
You will be evaluated against the qualifications and requirements in this vacancy announcement.- Qualifications:
**Experience**:
**Please note this announcement is simultaneously advertised with the substitution of experience for education (PARIS-2024-040S), please see details below**:
**Without substitution**: University level in business, finance or law and a minimum of five years of experience in finance, vouchering or managing budgets and one year in contracting and project management.

**With Substitution**: Secondary school and a minimum of eight years of experience in finance, vouchering or managing budgets and one year in contracting and project management. (**PARIS-2024-040S)**

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**Please note this announcement is simultaneously advertised with the full performance and training level (PARIS-2024-040T), please see details below**:
**Full performance**: Secondary school and a minimum of eight years of experience in finance, vouchering or managing budgets and one year in contracting and project management (grade 8)

**Training Level**: Secondary school and a minimum of seven years of experience in finance, vouchering or managing budgets and one year in contracting and project management. (grade 7)**Language: (This will be tested)**

**English - **Fluent; speaking, reading & writing, may include the ability to translate

**French** - Good working knowledge; speaking, reading & writing**Job Knowledge**:Excellent knowledge on how to implement budgetary, financial and contract oversight decisions.**Skills And Abilities**:The incumbent must feel comfortable speaking in public and defending their points with sound logic and reasoned argument. Ability to write concisely, explain complex material in understandable terminology, provide narrative justification in support of recommendation**Benefits and Other Info**:

- Benefits:

- Agency Benefits:
**SALARY**: the **annual gross salary includes**: the profit-sharing allowance, the vacation allowance, the bonus allowance and the “Comité d’Entreprise” allowance.

**MEAL TICKETS**: Meal tickets have a face value of EUR 8.25/day. 60% of the daily amount is paid by the U.S. Government. An employee contribution of EUR 3.30 per ticket will be deducted in payroll. The number of meal tickets is limited to 202 workdays per year.

**TRANSPORTATION**:Employees are eligible for a reimbursement of 50% of the cost of public transportation passes purchased for commuting purposes.

**HOLIDAYS**: The U.S. Missions in France observe eleven U.S. holidays per year and up to ten French holidays.

**For EFMs**, benefits should be discussed with the Human Resources Office.

The pay plan is assigned at the time of the conditional offer letter by the HR Office.
- Other Information:
**HIRING PREFERENCE SELECTION PROCESS**:
**HIRING PREFERENCE ORDER**
- Appointment Eligible Family Member (AEFM) / U.S. citizen Eligible Family Member (USEFM) who is a preference-eligible U.S. Veteran*
- AEFM / USEFM
- Foreign Service (FS) on Leave without Pay (LWOP) and Civil Service (CS) with reemployment rights**
- IMPORTANT: US citizen Eligible Family Member (USEFM) applicants who claim status as a preference-eligible U.S. Veteran must submit a copy of their most recent DD-214 (“Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty”) preferably Member Copy 4, Letter from Veterans’ Affairs which indicates the present existence of a service-connected disability, equivalent documentation, or certification. A “certification” is any written document from the armed forces that certifies the service member is expected to be discharged or released from active duty service in the armed forces under honorable conditions within 120 days after the certification is submitted by the applicant. The certification letter should be on letterhead of the appropriate military branch of the service and contain (1) the military service dates including the expected discharge or release date; and (2) the character of service. Acceptable documentation must be submitted in order f