Sec. 6501. Report on recruitment, retention, and promotion of Foreign Service economic officers
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Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees regarding the recruitment, retention, and promotion of economic officers in the Foreign Service. The report required under subsection
(b)shall include— an overview of the key challenges the Department faces in— recruiting individuals to serve as economic officers in the Foreign Service; and retaining individuals serving as economic officers in the Foreign Service, particularly at the level of GS–14 of the General Schedule and higher; an overview of the key challenges in recruiting and retaining qualified individuals to serve in economic positions in the Civil Service; a comparison of promotion rates for economic officers in the Foreign Service relative to other officers in the Foreign Service; a summary of the educational history and training of current economic officers in the Foreign Service and Civil Service officers serving in economic positions; the identification, disaggregated by region, of hard-to-fill posts and proposed incentives to improve staffing of economic officers in the Foreign Service at such posts; a summary and analysis of the factors that lead to the promotion of— economic officers in the Foreign Service; and individuals serving in economic positions in the Civil Service; and a summary and analysis of current Department-funded or run training opportunities and externally-funded programs, including the Secretary’s Leadership Seminar at Harvard Business School, for— economic officers in the Foreign Service; and individuals serving in economic positions in the Civil Service.