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22 U.S.C. § 2738 — Mid-Career Mentoring Program
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**(a) Authorization** The Secretary, in collaboration with the Director of the Foreign Service Institute, is authorized to establish a Mid-Career Mentoring Program (referred to in this section as the “Program”) to assist in the retention of, and to decrease mid-career attrition of, employees, including those who have demonstrated potential for advancement and may be at risk of leaving the Department.
**(b) Selection**
(1) **Nominations** — The head of each bureau shall semiannually nominate participants for the Program from a pool of applicants in the positions described in paragraph (2)(B), including from posts both domestically and abroad.
(2) **Submission of slate of nominees to Secretary** — The Director of the Foreign Service Institute, in consultation with the Director General of the Foreign Service, shall semiannually—
(A) vet the nominees most recently nominated pursuant to paragraph (1); and
(B) submit to the Secretary a slate of applicants to participate in the Program, who shall consist of at least—
(i) 10 Foreign Service Officers and specialists classified at the FS-03 or FS-04 level of the Foreign Service Salary Schedule;
(ii) 10 Civil Service employees classified at GS–12 or GS–13 of the General Schedule; and
(iii) 5 Foreign Service Officers from the United States Agency for International Development.
(3) **Final selection** — The Secretary shall select the applicants who will be invited to participate in the Program from the slate received pursuant to paragraph (2)(B) and extend such an invitation to each selected applicant.
(4) **Merit principles** — [Section 3905 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3905&num=0&edition=prelim) shall apply to nominations, submissions to the Se
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**(a) Authorization** The Secretary, in collaboration with the Director of the Foreign Service Institute, is authorized to establish a Mid-Career Mentoring Program (referred to in this section as the “Program”) to assist in the retention of, and to decrease mid-career attrition of, employees, including those who have demonstrated potential for advancement and may be at risk of leaving the Department.
**(b) Selection**
(1) **Nominations** — The head of each bureau shall semiannually nominate participants for the Program from a pool of applicants in the positions described in paragraph (2)(B), including from posts both domestically and abroad.
(2) **Submission of slate of nominees to Secretary** — The Director of the Foreign Service Institute, in consultation with the Director General of the Foreign Service, shall semiannually—
(A) vet the nominees most recently nominated pursuant to paragraph (1); and
(B) submit to the Secretary a slate of applicants to participate in the Program, who shall consist of at least—
(i) 10 Foreign Service Officers and specialists classified at the FS-03 or FS-04 level of the Foreign Service Salary Schedule;
(ii) 10 Civil Service employees classified at GS–12 or GS–13 of the General Schedule; and
(iii) 5 Foreign Service Officers from the United States Agency for International Development.
(3) **Final selection** — The Secretary shall select the applicants who will be invited to participate in the Program from the slate received pursuant to paragraph (2)(B) and extend such an invitation to each selected applicant.
(4) **Merit principles** — [Section 3905 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section3905&num=0&edition=prelim) shall apply to nominations, submissions to the Secretary, and selections for the Program under this section.
**(c) Program sessions**
(1) **Frequency; duration** — All of the participants who accept invitations extended pursuant to subsection (b)(3) shall meet 3 to 4 times per year for training sessions with high-level leaders of the Department and USAID, including private group meetings with the Secretary and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development.
(2) **Themes** — Each session referred to in paragraph (1) shall focus on specific themes developed jointly by the Foreign Service Institute and the Executive Secretariat focused on substantive policy issues and leadership practices.
**(d) Mentoring program** The Secretary and the Administrator each is authorized to establish a mentoring and coaching program that pairs a senior leader of the Department or USAID with each of the program participants who complete the Program during the 1-year period immediately following their participation in the Program.
**(e) Annual report** Not later than one year after December 22, 2023, and annually thereafter for three years, the Secretary shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees that describes the activities of the Program during the most recent year and includes disaggregated demographic data on participants in the Program.
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**(a) Merit principles; “personnel action” defined**
(1) All personnel actions with respect to career members and career candidates in the Service (including applicants for career candidate appointments) shall be made in accordance with merit principles.
(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), the term “personnel action” means—
(A) any appointment, promotion, assignment (including assignment to any position or salary class), award of performance pay or special differential, within-class salary increase, separation, or performance evaluation, and
(B) any decision, recommendation, examination, or ranking provided for under this chapter which relates to any action referred to in subparagraph (A).
**(b) Rules and regulations; discrimination; reprisals for disclosure of information; submission of reports, evaluations, or recommendations; freedom from prohibited personnel practices** The Secretary shall administer the provisions of this chapter and shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to ensure that members of the Service, as well as applicants for appointments in the Service—
(1) are free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, geographic or educational affiliation within the United States, or political affiliation, as prohibited under [section 2302(b)(1) of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section2302/b/1&num=0&edition=prelim);
(2) are free from reprisal for—
(A) a disclosure of information by a member or applicant which the member or applicant reasonably believes evidences—
(i) a violation of any law, rule, or regulation, or
(ii) mismanagement, a gross waste of funds, an abuse of authority, or a substantial and specific da
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There shall be at the seat of government an executive department to be known as the “Department of State”, and a Secretary of State, who shall be the head thereof.
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**(a)**
(1) The General Schedule, the symbol for which is “GS”, is the basic pay schedule for positions to which this subchapter applies. Each employee to whom this subchapter applies is entitled to basic pay in accordance with the General Schedule.
(2) The General Schedule is a schedule of annual rates of basic pay, consisting of 15 grades, designated “GS–1” through “GS–15”, consecutively, with 10 rates of pay for each such grade. The rates of pay of the General Schedule are adjusted in accordance with section 5303.
**(b)** When payment is made on the basis of an hourly, daily, weekly, or biweekly rate, the rate is computed from the appropriate annual rate of basic pay named by subsection (a) of this section in accordance with the rules prescribed by [section 5504(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5504/b&num=0&edition=prelim).
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TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
§ 2738
imum of 24 hours per week to accommodate
their academic schedules, provided that the
total duration of the internship remains con-
sistent with program requirements.
(l) Mentorship program
The Secretary and Administrator are author-
ized to establish a mentoring and coaching pro-
gram that pairs Foreign Service or Civil Service
employees with interns who choose to partici-
pate throughout the duration of their intern-
ship.
(Pub. L. 117–263, div. I, title XCII, § 9201, Dec. 23,
2022, 136 Stat. 3861; Pub. L. 118–159, div. G, title
LXXI, § 7105(a), Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 2524.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2024—Subsec. (b)(2)(A). Pub. L. 118–159, § 7105(a)(1), in-
serted ‘‘or have graduated from such an institution
within the six months preceding application to the Pro-
gram’’ after ‘‘paragraph (1)’’.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 118–159, § 7105(a)(2), inserted ‘‘and
gives preference as appropriate to individuals who have
not previously completed internships within the De-
partment of State and the United States Agency for
International Development’’ after ‘‘career in foreign af-
fairs’’.
Subsecs. (k), (l). Pub. L. 118–159, § 7105(a)(3), added
subsecs. (k) and (l).
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
DEFINITIONS
For definitions of ‘‘Secretary’’, ‘‘Department’’, ‘‘ap-
propriate congressional committees’’, and ‘‘Adminis-
trator’’ as used in this section, see section 9002 of Pub.
L. 117–263, set out as a note under section 2651 of this
title.
§ 2738. Mid-Career Mentoring Program
(a) Authorization
The Secretary, in collaboration with the Di-
rector of the Foreign Service Institute, is au-
thorized to establish a Mid-Career Mentoring
Program (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Pro-
gram’’) to a
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