Sec. 101. Chief Diversity Officer
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Section 1 of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 ( 22 U.S.C. 2651a ) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: There is established in the Department of State, in the office of the Deputy Secretary of State, a Chief Diversity Officer, who shall— be appointed by the President; be a current or former career member of the Foreign Service or Civil Service; and report directly to the Deputy Secretary of State. The Deputy Secretary of State shall be responsible for ensuring policies and practices of the Department of State relating to recruitment, retention, and promotion to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The Chief Diversity Officer shall be responsible for the following: Providing advice to the Deputy Secretary of State regarding carrying out paragraph (2). Collecting and sharing information on diversity in assignments and promotions within the Department of State, including disaggregated information by office and bureau. Establishing benchmarks and goals for individual offices and bureaus regarding assignments of personnel, in coordination with the Director General of the Foreign Service, to promote diversity and inclusion at the Department of State, and conducting annual reviews of individual bureaus on their actions taken to satisfy such benchmarks and goals.
Providing advice to the Deputy Secretary of State and other senior individuals of the Department of State in the selection of chiefs of mission and deputy chiefs of mission. The Chief Diversity Officer shall have the rank and status of Assistant Secretary of State. The Secretary of State shall appoint in each bureau of the Department of State a liaison to coordinate with the Chief Diversity Officer the activities of each such bureau. Not later than January 30 of every year, the Secretary of State shall submit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a report— detailing the benchmarks and goals for individual offices and bureaus of the Department of State; assessments by the Chief Diversity Officer on the performance over the previous year of each such office and bureau to satisfy such benchmarks and goals; and containing any other relevant information.
In this section, the term diversity has the meaning given such term in section 102 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1980 ( 22 U.S.C. 3902 ). . It is the sense of Congress that the Chief Diversity Officer of the Department of State established pursuant to subsection
(h)of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956, as added by subsection (a), should be provided sufficient office space and support staff to ensure successful operation.
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