Office to monitor and combat trafficking

(a) In general (1) Establishment The Secretary shall establish within the Department an Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, which shall provide assistance to the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking and shall report directly to the Under Secretary for International Security Affairs for matters relating to day-to-day administration and coordination of activities and programs. Any such Office shall be headed by a Director, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, with the rank of Ambassador-at-Large, and shall have two deputy directors. The Director shall report to the Secretary and shall have the primary responsibility for assisting the Secretary in carrying out the purposes of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.) and may have additional responsibilities as determined by the Secretary. The Director shall consult with nongovernmental organizations and multilateral organizations, and with trafficking victims or other affected persons. The Director shall have the authority to take evidence in public hearings or by other means. (2) Staff The heads of each of the Federal departments and agencies represented on the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking are authorized to provide staff to the Office on a non-reimbursable basis. (b) United States assistance The Director shall additionally be responsible for— (1) all policy, funding, and programming decisions regarding funds made available for trafficking in persons programs that are centrally controlled by the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking; (2) coordinating any trafficking in persons programs of the Department or of other Federal Government agencies; (3) compiling, drafting, and coordinating the production and issuing of the annual report; (4) ensuring, in coordination with other relevant officials, that all Department staff have completed annual anti-trafficking training pursuant to section 107(c)(4) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7105(c)(4)) and section 708(a) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4028(a)); (5) encouraging the inclusion in country and regional planning of a counter-trafficking in persons analytic component to guide foreign assistance program design and implementation and to inform diplomatic engagement pursuant to section 105(f) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7103(f)); and (6) organizing and coordinating the Trafficking in Persons Report Heroes Award.