Health Attache

**Duties**:

- Serve as a focal point at the US. Embassy in Mexico City, Mexico for matters related to the program of health cooperation and human service policy issues
- Maintain regular and consistent communication with appropriate officials in HHS on programs of health cooperation and human service policy items
- Providing guidance on HHS programs that require cooperation at national and field levels
- Develop and maintain strong linkages and close contacts with officials in the host country's Ministry of Health and other relevant Ministries
- Supervise arrangement for U.S. Government employees, contractors and grantees with special interests in health and human services, public health, and social policy issues who visit the host country
- Participate in the development of new cooperative health, human service, and social policy activities with officials of the Government of the host country
- Support the health objectives outlined in the U.S. Embassy's Integrated Country Strategy, respond to public health threats, work to improve Mexico's disease surveillance and response capacity, and support collaboration between U.S. and host country

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- U.S. Citizenship required
- One year probationary period may be required
- If you are selected for this position, the documentation that you present for purposes of completing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Form I-9 will be verified through the DHS "E-Verify" System.
- All Federal employees are required to have Federal salary payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of their choice.
- Financial disclosure statement may be required.
- Bargaining Unit Position: No
- Drug Screening Required: Yes
- Research position: No

**Qualifications**:
**Applicants must demonstrate that they meet the Minimum Qualification and Selective Placement Factor requirements as noted below.**

**Minimum Qualifications**:
**GS-15**: You must possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the **GS-14 **level in the Federal service (obtained in either the public or private sectors) performing each of the duties listed below:
- Providing advice on health, social, and human services issues of foreign entities that impact the United States to senior officials, leaders, or staff; and,
- Coordinating public health and social policies between multiple country agencies to ensure cooperative health or human services activities; and,
- Overseeing public health or social services cooperative activities of U.S. stakeholders in a foreign country to ensure bilateral compliance with respect to established policies and U.S. interests.

**Selective Placement Factor (SPF)**:
This position requires a SPF be met in order to meet minimum requirements for the position. Applicants who do not meet the SPF are ineligible for further consideration. Written, spoken, and reading fluency in Spanish is required.

**Documenting Experience**:
IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. Qualifications are based on breadth/level of experience. In addition to describing duties performed, applicants must provide the exact dates of each period of employment (from MM/YY to MM/YY) and the number of hours worked per week if part time. As qualification determinations cannot be made when resumes do not include the required information, failure to provide this information may result in disqualification. Applicants are encouraged to use the USAJOBS Resume Builder to develop their federal resume.

Do not copy and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position.

In accordance with Office of Personnel Management policy, federal employees are assumed to have gained experience by performing duties and responsibilities appropriate for their official series and grade level as described in their position description. Experience that would not normally be part of the employee's position is creditable, however, when documented by satisfactory evidence, such as a signed memorandum from the employee's supervisor or an SF-50 or SF-52 documenting an official detail or other official assignment. The documentation must indicate whether the duties were performed full time or, if part time, the "percentage of times" the other duties were performed. It is expected that this documentation is included in the employee's official personnel record. In order to receive credit for experience in your resume that is not within the official series and grade level of your official position, you must provide a copy of the appropriate documentation of such experience as indicated above.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through national Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other or