Sec. 331. Facilitation and encouragement of training and professional development for Foreign Service and Civil Service personnel
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It is the sense of Congress that a recognition throughout the Department of the value and importance of training and professional development for Foreign Service and Civil Service personnel of the Department is vital to the development and maintenance by such personnel of the skills and expertise required for the Department to contribute fully and effectively to the conduct of the foreign affairs of the United States. The Secretary, in consultation with relevant Federal agencies and institutions of higher education (as such term is defined section 102 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1002 )), shall conduct a study on the feasibility of establishing a diplomatic officers’ reserve corps or similar mechanism in the Department to augment the Department’s personnel needs at any level on a temporary or permanent basis.
In conducting the study required by paragraph (1), the Secretary shall consider whether any such diplomatic officers’ reserve corps should be modeled on the Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps established under chapter 103 of title 10, United States Code, to encourage the recruitment and retention of personnel who have the critical language skills necessary to meet the requirements of the Foreign Service, by providing financial assistance to students studying critical languages at institutions of higher education.
Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that contains the results of the study required by paragraph (1). The Secretary shall take appropriate actions to ensure the evaluation of precepts described in section 603 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 ( 22 U.S.C. 4003 ) upon which selection boards under section 602 of that Act ( 22 U.S.C. 4002 ) make recommendations for promotion of members of the Foreign Service under section 601 of that Act ( 22 U.S.C. 4001 ) afford equal weight to the undertaking of training, professional development, and foreign language acquisition and retention among any other objective criteria considered by selection boards in making such recommendations.
The Secretary shall take appropriate actions to ensure that the performance standards established and maintained under chapter 43 of title 5, United States Code, for any job performance appraisal system for Civil Service personnel of the Department afford equal weight to the undertaking of training, professional development, and foreign language acquisition and retention among any other objective criteria in the evaluation of the job performance of such personnel. The Secretary shall take appropriate actions to ensure the evaluation of precepts for recommendations for promotion described in subsection (b)(1) for members of the Foreign Service in supervisory positions incorporates the extent to which such members addressed the training and professional development needs of the personnel under their supervision as the Secretary considers appropriate.
The Secretary shall take appropriate actions to ensure that the performance standards described in subsection (b)(2) for Civil Service personnel of the Department in supervisory positions afford appropriate weight to addressing the training and professional development needs of the personnel under their supervision as the Secretary considers appropriate.
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Facilitation and encouragement of training and professional development for Foreign Service and Civil Service personnel
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