Announcement Number: ASHGABAT-2023-016

Hiring Agency: US Embassy in Turkmenistan

Position Title: Visa Assistant - Open to All Interested/ All Sources (LE-1415)

Open Period: 07/21/2023 - 08/10/2023

Series/Grade: LE - 1415 7

Salary: USD $18,872 /Per Year

Work Schedule: Full-time - 40 hours per week

Promotion Potential: LE-7

Duty Location(s): 1 Vacancy in Ashgabat, TM

Duties

Assists in all aspects of Post’s consular operations.  Handles complex work associated with the range of services provided by the section, particularly non-immigrant visa processing, immigrant visa processing, and American Citizen Services.  Routinely deals with passport and citizenship matters, registrations, and notarials. Fields public inquiries from American citizens, foreign nationals, and host country officials. Acts as a primary fraud investigator and as one of two Consular Cashiers. Performs a variety of clerical duties in the Embassy Consular Section, including processing of visa applications, printing machine-readable visas, and packaging sealed sensitive immigration documents for use by U.S. border officials. Translates (written and oral) for the Consular Section to and from Turkmen and Russian. Shares duties with the Consular Assistant.

Requirements:

EXPERIENCE: Two to three years of experience working in a modern computerized office, preferably with extensive public contact and/or a legal background.

EDUCATION: At least two years of full-time post-secondary study (college or university) is required.

LANGUAGE:

• Fluent level of English language is required. This may be tested.
• Fluent level of Turkmen language is required. This may be tested.
• Fluent level of Russian language is required. This may be tested.

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