Increasing United States citizens employment in international organizations

(a) Annual review of strategy The Assistant Secretary of International Organizations Affairs shall annually review and update as necessary the Department’s strategy for encouraging United States citizens to pursue careers with international organizations and ensure implementation, including by using performance metrics to determine success of increasing the employment of United States citizens within international organizations, including across the United Nations system (as such term is defined in section 611(c)). The strategy shall be updated to include— (1) utilizing online recruiting sites to advertise available positions within the United Nations system which may be implemented by the United States mission to the United Nations; and (2) identifying and providing information on working in the United Nations system to candidates that express interest in the Foreign Service test and internships at the Department, including by advertising the International Organization careers web page to those individuals (b) Inclusion of performance metrics Performance metrics in measuring the Department’s success in encouraging increased employment of United States citizens in international organizations since the 2023 strategy was implemented must include— (1) year over year numbers of new Americans employed and total Americans employed per international organization by employment type (detailee, transfer, secondee, junior professional officer, senior appointment/elected, direct hire (permanent or fixed-term position), consultancy, expert, or short-term contract); (2) to the extent known, year-over-year numbers of United States citizen applicants for open positions; (3) number of contacts from prospective American applicants from the relevant Department programming and outreach to be broken down by contact type, the average response time and success of those contacts/applicants; and (4) outreach via social media sites to be measured by views per item, clicks, and followers. (c) Notification to congress The updated annual strategy with included performance metrics shall be notified and made available to Congress. (d) Report Not later than 180 days after the enactment of this legislation, and annually thereafter for 3 years, the Assistant Secretary of International Organization Affairs shall submit to Congress a report that provides— (1) an assessment of United States representation among professional and senior-level positions at the United Nations, including— (A) an assessment of the proportion of United States citizens employed at the United Nations Secretariat and at all United Nations specialized agencies, funds, and programs relative to the total employment at the United Nations Secretariat and at all such agencies, funds, and programs; (B) an assessment of compliance, in coordination with the Inspector General of the Department of State, by the United Nations Secretariat and such agencies, funds, and programs with any applicable geographic distribution formula; and (C) a description of any steps taken or planned to be taken by the United States to increase the staffing of United States citizens at the United Nations Secretariat and such agencies, funds and programs; and (2) an assessment of— (A) the number of United States citizens who are involved in relevant junior professional programs and internships in an international organization; (B) the distribution of individuals described in subparagraph (A) among various international organizations; (C) the types of pre-deployment training that are available to United States citizens through a junior professional program at an international organization; and (D) and the number of United States citizens who are joint professional officers and interns who convert to full time United Nations employment.