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48G Foreign Area Officer, Middle East and North Africa

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Overview

A Foreign Area Officer specializing in the Middle East and North Africa fills positions requiring expertise in that region. The officer brings regional training and language qualifications focused on the Middle East and North Africa.

Minimum clearance: TS/SCI

Core Skills

  • Regional political-military assessment for MENA
  • Regional advice to commanders and diplomats
  • Foreign military and interagency liaison

Civilian Career Paths

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Foreign Affairs Officer (Federal Civil Service)

Middle East and North Africa expertise, supported by documented political-military advisory or liaison assignments, transfers to foreign-policy analysis and advice to senior officials.

How to prepare: Build a federal resume mapping your actual regional analysis, advisory work and liaison assignments to a 0130 announcement's specialized-experience criteria. Check which OPM basic qualification route you meet: relevant education or specified coursework, a qualifying education-experience combination, or four years of appropriate foreign-affairs experience, which may include suitable military service.

Notes & Sources

  • FAO assignments vary; claim only the advisory, liaison, policy and language experience you actually acquired.
  • OPM basic qualification does not establish eligibility for every grade or hiring path; GS-12 and higher require the specified high-level specialized professional experience or direction and coordination of relevant professional work.
  • The representative State Department GS-13 opening requires specialized experience, U.S. citizenship and a Top Secret clearance and is restricted to stated State employee and career-transition hiring paths, not open to all veterans.
  • This is a federal civil-service path, not the Foreign Service selection process.
Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 48G Foreign Area Officer, Middle East and North Africa

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 48G (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank officer, authority codeType officer

    Supports: Regional political-military assessment for MENA, Foreign Affairs Officer (Federal Civil Service)

  2. Army officer classification guidance: Foreign Area Officer functional scope

    [2] Section 3-48, version effective 202210, paragraphs a and b; use this version rather than the separately reproduced 201810 version

    Supports: Regional political-military assessment for MENA, Regional advice to commanders and diplomats, Foreign military and interagency liaison, Foreign Affairs Officer (Federal Civil Service)

  3. OPM: Foreign Affairs Series 0130 qualification requirements

    [3] Basic Requirements and Evaluation of Experience; retrieved September 2026

    Supports: Foreign Affairs Officer (Federal Civil Service)

  4. Department of State: Foreign Affairs Officer, representative federal role

    [4] Duties, qualifications and hiring-path restrictions; announcement P/IO-MPI-2026-0007

    Supports: Foreign Affairs Officer (Federal Civil Service)

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