Apply for career opportunities with the U.S. Department of State

The U.S. Department of State is currently hiring for a range of academic backgrounds and professional experiences. Check out the current opportunities and apply today!

MBA Fellowship opportunity

The U.S. Department of State’s MBA Special Advisor Fellowship is accepting applications through Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. This is a unique chance for MBA students or recent graduates to apply their skills to help modernize operations and support foreign policy. Fellows will collaborate with senior leaders on projects involving data analytics, strategic planning, human resources, logistics and financial management.

Learn more details and apply.

STEM opportunities

There are also three STEM-related diplomatic careers and a STEM-related fellowship currently open for students pursuing IT-related degrees:

• Security engineering officer
  Security engineering officers provide technical security support and engineering expertise to protect U.S. Foreign Service facilities, information, and personnel overseas and in domestic locations. Responsibilities include working with all aspects of security systems – from design, development, and analysis to installation and testing.
  
  View videos and read more about the career and application process, and apply today.

• Security technical specialist
  Security technical specialists provide support and assist in worldwide technical security programs that provide protection for U.S. Department of State facilities and personnel from technical espionage, acts of terrorism and crime. Their work is incredibly varied – managing projects and people, supporting dignitary travel, exploring the use of new technology and installing, maintaining and repairing a vast array of complex technical security equipment.
  
  View videos and read more about the career and application process, and apply today.
  
  If you are interested in learning more about this career, register for a webinar at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024.

• Diplomatic technology officer  
  Diplomatic technology officers are part of a global team supporting and shaping the future of diplomatic technology. Areas of responsibility include physical infrastructure, customer support and system administration, and assorted topics (including data analytics, incorporating new and emerging technologies, supporting high-level visits, budgeting, deploying and maintaining end-user equipment and more). 
  
  View a previous webinar and read more about the career and application process, and apply today.
  

• Foreign Affairs Information Technology Fellowship, or FAIT Fellowship 
  The FAIT Fellowship is one of four Foreign Service fellowships offered that pay for two years of the student’s education, offers two paid summer internships, provides professional development, and includes a guaranteed job as a diplomat upon graduation. For the FAIT Fellowship, we will either pay for the last two years of an IT-related bachelor’s degree or a two-year IT-related master’s degree and the student joins the Foreign Service as a diplomatic technology officer upon graduation.
  
  If you are interested, apply on Handshake.