Executive Director

Executive Director

Department of State

Department of State - Agency Wide

Summary

This Executive Director position serves both the Bureaus of Budget and Planning (BP) and the Comptroller and Global Financial Services (CGFS). CGFS strives to be an effective steward of the Department’s financial resources and deliver quality financial management services, programs and systems to ensure the USG and Department can accomplish their essential foreign affairs mission with the highest standard of financial accountability and transparency to the American people.

Duties

The Executive Director (CGFS/EX) is the principal advisor on bureau administrative policy initiatives, managing the bureaus’ long range and strategic planning, budget and finance, human resources and staffing programs, general services to include procurement, construction and space planning, travel, inventories of consumable and non-consumable assets, management controls, local information technology support operations and cyber security, contracting oversight, data mining, records retention, emergency management, and related issues, for both bureaus. Specifically, the incumbent will execute the following:

Serves as an expert adviser and consultant to the Comptroller on all administrative and management issues involving CGFS's domestic and overseas operations and to the Director on all administrative and management issues involving BP’s domestic programs.

Directs the preparation of budget requests for domestic and overseas operations and their presentation to Departmental leadership, OMB, and Congress.

Works closely with the Bureau of Diplomatic Technology (DT) to ensure state of the art technology and resources are available for the bureaus’ information technology operations in support of domestic and global programs.

Oversees the strategic planning operations to include annual updates of the CGFS and BP Emergency Action Plans and Hurricane Plans, as well as the Emergency Contact Data reports; and directing CGFS and BP Functional Bureau Strategy (FBS) programs to ensure alignment with the Department and Joint Strategic Plan’s goals and bureau compliance with established sub-objectives and milestones.