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Instagram: @PSCblog @WorldTravelRRRGreghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981762691348722011noreply@blogger.comBlogger628125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770325711273461588.post-3084554469439398032023-10-01T12:00:00.890-04:002023-10-01T12:00:00.162-04:00FSCE Promotion Statistics 2023<div style="text-align: left;">Information about Foreign Service Construction Engineer staffing trends, and promotion/retention statistics are hard to find. Perhaps purposefully so? Fortunately, if you know where to look, you can find enough information to understand the personnel issues. But it's a challenge to piece it together without the insight that you can really only get after you join. With transparency in mind, I'll use open-source links for the data and provide some analysis of what the information might be telling us. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>The Department of State Five-Year Workforce Plan (FY 2019-2023)</b></h3><div style="text-align: left;">As you might imagine, the Bureau of Human Resources has a plan to "address the Department's human capital requirements" which "highlights the Department's challenges and achievements in recruiting, hiring, staffing, retaining, and developing employees. </div><div style="text-align: left;">You can find that plan with a Google search of this section's header, which should pull up this link to a 124-page document:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Five-Year-Workforce-Plan-FY19_FY23-Final.pdf">https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Five-Year-Workforce-Plan-FY19_FY23-Final.pdf</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">But I'm not an HR person, so I'll limit my observations to the Foreign Service Construction Engineer (FSCE) career field, starting with when I joined in 2012. It's important to note that there was a major reclassification action in 2016 that moved all entry-level (FP-04) FSCEs to FP-03 so that the new de facto entry-grade level became FP-03. The original intent was to allow hiring at both FP-04 and FP-03 grade levels, but since that date, I believe there has only been one FP-04 hired to date, which you can deduce from the lack of eligible FP-04s competed for promotion since 2016. That chart is further down this post. </div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Retention</h3><div style="text-align: left;">Part of the staffing challenge is retention. The 2019-2023 HR plan for Construction Engineers is succinctly captured in two tables in that document. Table 11 shows that between 2014-2018, the average annual attrition rate was 5 FSCEs per year. That works out to a retention rate of around 95%. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNCdhFI5Vyuf3jhFfzJBOuP9sMFcjYSKSo42sRgq3ujP_vTdG9s6uZ8plrQDFFauiIpLzdIbLPBzuATa9vvCjgTIwq2CUZfVjNLiytqYfbIAejrGL5Hjcs5UUnFG1yOMumfUpAA5tcZJs-h0xTMLY3sb6XC-GMLIDj87DE7yTZrw7EpKmw9cyCzGILmR-C/s1204/blog-attrition-fsce.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1018" data-original-width="1204" height="339" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNCdhFI5Vyuf3jhFfzJBOuP9sMFcjYSKSo42sRgq3ujP_vTdG9s6uZ8plrQDFFauiIpLzdIbLPBzuATa9vvCjgTIwq2CUZfVjNLiytqYfbIAejrGL5Hjcs5UUnFG1yOMumfUpAA5tcZJs-h0xTMLY3sb6XC-GMLIDj87DE7yTZrw7EpKmw9cyCzGILmR-C/w400-h339/blog-attrition-fsce.png" width="400" /></a></div><div>What's interesting though, is that the projection for 2019-2023 was to lose only two people in the entire career field per year, and solely to retirements. I don't know where they got this number, but it seems to ignore the fact that this is a very optimistic objective, given that historically twice as many have left annually (and not all of them were by retirement. Those stats reference Table A1 in the Appendix, so let's look at it.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1CodXcnOROklJJDpWwnTn7G0bF_N9wTGfJVkqrBYL7rwnUn8kb_9lAlGdUai8d33Jj0g9BuBe3umuHjuuGT-I5Awje_EWac6kpOaBgAO2i4hzoXUMjNF0zdi8x3T-3P--tuXrcHf6hX3ccAis3tEa-2RqFQlCidTuvo94WadiUge4IteUao_I9JXEY2AI/s1826/2019-2023%20projected%20attrition.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1170" data-original-width="1826" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1CodXcnOROklJJDpWwnTn7G0bF_N9wTGfJVkqrBYL7rwnUn8kb_9lAlGdUai8d33Jj0g9BuBe3umuHjuuGT-I5Awje_EWac6kpOaBgAO2i4hzoXUMjNF0zdi8x3T-3P--tuXrcHf6hX3ccAis3tEa-2RqFQlCidTuvo94WadiUge4IteUao_I9JXEY2AI/w400-h256/2019-2023%20projected%20attrition.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Table 1A consists of all of the Foreign Service Skill Groups, for both Generalists (FSO) and Specialists (FSS). There is something interesting about the data in this table, if you take a moment to look at it. Do you see what it is? There are projected numbers for non-retirements for the Generalists between FY19 to FY23 but not for most Specialists (including Construction Engineers). </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Considering that Specialists are hired for their specialized skills which are marketable, this seems like someone didn't want to even consider that people with sought-after skills might voluntarily leave the Foreign Service before retirement. For what it's worth, about those groups that did provide numbers estimate between 25%-50% of the attrition will be through non-retirement. It's also peculiar that the Department obscures the voluntary and involuntary turnover rates as a lump sum "non-retirement" because there are different action codes for each of those.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Why do I mention retention before promotion? Because it's possible to be retained without being promoted, but getting promoted without being retained just doesn't make much sense. To learn more about employee turnover and retention metrics & KPIs, check out this link:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.netsuite.com/portal/resource/articles/human-resources/employee-turnover-kpis-metrics.shtml">https://www.netsuite.com/portal/resource/articles/human-resources/employee-turnover-kpis-metrics.shtml</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Promotion Statistics</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">One of the big factors in retention is employee morale, and competitive promotions in the Foreign Service has a significant influence. So, now you're wondering what the promotion rates have been for Foreign Service Construction Engineers over the last decade, but don't know where to look? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><div>As you might imagine, there are public and non-public files with this info, but it helps to start with a Google search for “FSCE promotion statistics 2019 construction engineer” or 2017, or whatever.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>One of those results will likely be the State Department magazine, which often publishes the statistics from the previous year on their website around June or July. </div><div>For example: <a href="https://statemag.state.gov/2020/06/0620feat04/">2019 Promotion Planning and Statistics - State Magazine</a></div><div><br /></div><div>But that site isn't very searchable, and you have to download each of the archived issues separately just to get the link to the historical information.</div><div><br /></div><div>2016: <a href="https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/265927.pdf">https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/265927.pdf</a></div><div>2017: <a href="https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Foreign-Service-Promotion-Statistics.pdf">https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Foreign-Service-Promotion-Statistics.pdf</a></div><div>2018: <a href="https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2018_FS_Promotion_Statistics_by_Grade.pdf">https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2018_FS_Promotion_Statistics_by_Grade.pdf</a></div><div>2019: <a href="https://2017-2021.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2019_FS_Promotion_Statistics_by_Grade-.pdf">https://2017-2021.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2019_FS_Promotion_Statistics_by_Grade-.pdf</a></div><div>2020: <a href="https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2020-FS-Promotion-Statistics-by-Grade.pdf">https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2020-FS-Promotion-Statistics-by-Grade.pdf</a></div><div>2021: <a href="https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/FS-Promotion-Statistics-2021.pdf">https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/FS-Promotion-Statistics-2021.pdf</a></div><div>2022: <a href="https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2022-FS-Promotion-Statistics-by-Grade.pdf">https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2022-FS-Promotion-Statistics-by-Grade.pdf</a></div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm going to focus my analysis on the first promotion after becoming an FSCE, which is (as of 2016) typically going from FP-03 to FP-02. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">There are probably more files out there, but it's only worth going back as far as 2016 when the Department administratively reclassified all FSCEs from FP-04 to FP-03. I was one of the four FP-04s selected for promotion in 2016 out of the 9 competed, but due to the reclassification action, every single FP-04 was effectively "promoted" to FP-03 including those not selected for promotion (who could have been if there were enough positions available). The rules state that you have to have two years in grade as of 1 July of the promotion year to be considered eligible, so the reclassification action also "promoted" all of the FP-04s who were not even eligible yet. Talk about a shortcut!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So, that's why the 2017 and 2018 promotion statistics tables don't show Construction Engineers from FP-04 to FP-03. With that out of the way, let's look at how the promotions worked out for everyone since then based on the publicly available information.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-55a684dc-7fff-6d98-f78a-12625b4f87cf"><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><colgroup><col width="65"></col><col width="235"></col><col width="162"></col><col width="162"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Year</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Grade: Promoted/Competed (%)</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Avg TIC (Promotees)</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Avg TIS (Promotees)</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">2016</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FP-3: 4/9 (44%)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FP-2: 2/5 (40%)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FP-1: 4/12 (33%)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FE-OC: 1/8 (12%)</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">3.3</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">2.7</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">3.7</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">5.7</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">3.6</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">6.3</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">10.7</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">13.5</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 21pt;"><td colspan="4" style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Reclassification of all current FP-4 FSCEs to FP-3 in Summer 2016</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">2017</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FP-3: 0/0 (no eligibles)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FP-2: 3/7 (42%)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FP-1: 5/10 (50%)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FE-OC: 2/7 (28%)</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">4.0</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">3.5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">9.2</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">8.0</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">10.4</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">18.8</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">2018</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FP-3: 0/0 (no eligibles)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FP-2: 4/9 (44%)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FP-1: 3/7 (42%)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FE-OC: 2/9 (22%)</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">3.2</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">5.4</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">7.7</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">7.0</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">13.3</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">17.8</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">2019</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FP-3: 0/0 (no eligibles)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FP-2: 8/27 (29%)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FP-1: 3/6 (50%)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FE-OC: 2/8 (25%)</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">3.0</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">3.7</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">7.2</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">4.5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">9.6</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">17.4</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">2020</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FP-3: 0/0 (no eligibles)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FP-2: 7/19 (36.8%)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FP-1: 3/5 (60%)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FE-OC: 2/8 (25%)</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">4.3</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">3.7</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">8.7</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">6.4</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">9.5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">19.0</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">2021</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FP-3: 0/0 (no eligibles)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FP-2: 6/24 (25%)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FP-1: 4/6 (67%)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FE-OC: 1/4 (25%)</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">4.3</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">2.6</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">6.2</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">5.9</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">9.8</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">21.5</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">2022</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FP-3: 0/0 (no eligibles)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FP-2: 9/23 (39%)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FP-1: 4/9 (44%)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">To FE-OC: 2/6 (33%)</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">5.1</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">2.6</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">8.7</span></p></td><td style="border-bottom: solid #000000 1pt; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left: solid #000000 1pt; border-right: solid #000000 1pt; border-style: solid; border-top: solid #000000 1pt; border-width: 1pt; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">NA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">6.2</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">6.7</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">17.9</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>You start getting into some fun multivariable algebra when you try to determine things like the annual hiring rate and attrition rate per grade since these are not explicitly defined anywhere that I could find. </div><div>And honestly, looking at it as a year-to-year comparison might not even be practical given how small the numbers are. </div><div><br /></div><div>But you can somewhat indirectly determine the hiring and attrition rate based on the statistics for the full-time workforce produced by AFSA at <a href="https://afsa.org/foreign-service-statistics ">https://afsa.org/foreign-service-statistics </a></div><div><br /></div><div>Specifically, check out the "2018-06 Foreign Service FTP by Skill group" at this direct link:</div><div><a href="https://afsa.org/sites/default/files/0618_fs_ftp_skill_group.pdf">https://afsa.org/sites/default/files/0618_fs_ftp_skill_group.pdf</a></div><div>If you want to look it up on your own, the Foreign Service Construction Engineer skill code is 6218. Anyways, the important take-aways from the AFSA document are the number in each grade as of June 2018, and there were 86 Construction Engineers in total.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkqVdVraunJnj-ndA0YMo07KQ7cCU5tS37cS91545TfWzWqUmidiYIDCMdS28ffrhkrkolU7irClnnBvPCWus2wlxXTh-bRbYJ3YYC8ccs8XABQcO4WcXVbHq0eOc3g0dpBvPIk4_gPM28Mv0mez2_4ZonnARh7T6Eaep9UzlY_ZNLXD0hqi0ySkitVa2d/s1570/2018%20career%20field%20overview.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="1570" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkqVdVraunJnj-ndA0YMo07KQ7cCU5tS37cS91545TfWzWqUmidiYIDCMdS28ffrhkrkolU7irClnnBvPCWus2wlxXTh-bRbYJ3YYC8ccs8XABQcO4WcXVbHq0eOc3g0dpBvPIk4_gPM28Mv0mez2_4ZonnARh7T6Eaep9UzlY_ZNLXD0hqi0ySkitVa2d/w400-h78/2018%20career%20field%20overview.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>That image is edited to just show the Construction Engineer grades in decreasing order. In case you can't read the numbers, they are: </div><div>Senior Foreign Service MC: 2 / OC: 10</div><div>FP-01: 26 </div><div>FP-02: 15</div><div>FP-03: 33 </div><div>FP:04: 0</div><div>Note that this pattern should be a pyramid, but it's actually got a bottle-neck at FP-02. Part of this will be resolved when the FP-01s eventually retire, but they can stay in up to age 65 so long as they have less than 30 years of service per <a href="http://fam.state.gov/FAM/03FAM/03FAM6210.html" target="_blank">3 FAM 6210</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Since this data is from June 2018, no one that was reclassified in 2016 had yet achieved eligibility to compete for promotion because they needed at least 2+ years as of 1 July 2018. Stated differently, the 2016-2018 promotion stats relate to only those who were FP-03 before the reclassification. but helps to establish a picture of "the before times."</div><div><br /></div><div>So, in 2016, 2 of 5 FSCEs were selected for promotion to FP-02. The average Time in Class of those competed was 3.1 years, and their average length of service was 6.9 years. This is because most spent about 4 years as FP-04s before becoming FP-03s.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0OylW1rsNn-AEwRm3wWL_DYXVMc_27CQjc5kviWmLdgnuvHm288LlsCyqIHYnge31SeSzcnU7D1MhIRqaL3hIm1M3i7OMz0CeoTWhGfReOls4ZLj16q-_RtYpTXzUcaWNradArnWB8OVJiTyfWVo9AbNxFD9DokvwmhFCHygjUVPjGDnuyObn8wsJvLL3/s1866/2016-3to2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="484" data-original-width="1866" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0OylW1rsNn-AEwRm3wWL_DYXVMc_27CQjc5kviWmLdgnuvHm288LlsCyqIHYnge31SeSzcnU7D1MhIRqaL3hIm1M3i7OMz0CeoTWhGfReOls4ZLj16q-_RtYpTXzUcaWNradArnWB8OVJiTyfWVo9AbNxFD9DokvwmhFCHygjUVPjGDnuyObn8wsJvLL3/w400-h104/2016-3to2.png" width="400" /></a></div>In 2017, 3 of 7 FSCEs were selected for promotion to FP-02. Average time in class of those competed was 3.4 years, and their average length of service was 8.0 years. This is because most spent about 4 years as FP-04s before becoming FP-03s. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi__1VixkuaFqv0wjEercHOxaFgxj-c45zASA_S7i9bikzUQwHC0uCZZTZA6x57pkf6sTAgqowHSQOxs2Tji0Kq62JOB1r8yKEpCCCbBtcF4-lEt0iRMrnj6J4rN2FvtK6sOzbiYsnw2OYkFUz6EbYbVy2XMhoB3GoyyME1ad6WCcJdl4TQrg6PhdpguqTf/s2036/2017-3to2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="248" data-original-width="2036" height="49" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi__1VixkuaFqv0wjEercHOxaFgxj-c45zASA_S7i9bikzUQwHC0uCZZTZA6x57pkf6sTAgqowHSQOxs2Tji0Kq62JOB1r8yKEpCCCbBtcF4-lEt0iRMrnj6J4rN2FvtK6sOzbiYsnw2OYkFUz6EbYbVy2XMhoB3GoyyME1ad6WCcJdl4TQrg6PhdpguqTf/w400-h49/2017-3to2.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In 2018, 4 of 9 eligible were promoted to FP-2. Average time in class of those competed was 3.6 years, and their average length of service was 7.6 years. So that is a fair representation of it taking about 7.5 to 8 years in the Foreign Service after about 4 years in the previous grade. That would leave up to 5 FP-3s ready to compete for promotion against all of the FSCEs who were reclassified in 2016. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUzpzmaDKc5KfLZPReSypo7eF3euRRajJOdFlEwiKB4lQ60bojbyxZTv0mF6gzkSFwRxb3QpNcfpN7at-4_k2WRSLxKuCqDNILHERUlzpd8rfG89OWbykZpvzNy7PeDd_qHaTVUEtYt9t2dO7MEUCvC9wesaC4peDX7T0SqvagPad8jOrpx25sYLhhoU-9/s2030/2018-3to2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="2030" height="49" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUzpzmaDKc5KfLZPReSypo7eF3euRRajJOdFlEwiKB4lQ60bojbyxZTv0mF6gzkSFwRxb3QpNcfpN7at-4_k2WRSLxKuCqDNILHERUlzpd8rfG89OWbykZpvzNy7PeDd_qHaTVUEtYt9t2dO7MEUCvC9wesaC4peDX7T0SqvagPad8jOrpx25sYLhhoU-9/w400-h49/2018-3to2.png" width="400" /></a></div>Remember what I said about eligibility requirements of those impacted by the 2016 reclassification action? Because the promotion rules require a minimum of two-years time in grade to be considered for promotion, the 2019 stats are the first to hold some useful info for "the new normal". </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In 2019, there were 27 eligible FP-03s competing for promotion to FP-02. Average time in class of those competed was 3.1 years, and their average length of service was three years earlier than before, at 5.0 years. We also know that in June 2018 there were 33, and if there were 5 remaining candidates from 2018, there should have been 33-5=28 eligibles, not 27. So that's at least one non-retirement attrition right there, which can be attributed to the fact that some folks who had joined in the last few years had already promoted faster than others with more time in service...as evidenced by the Avg length of service of promotees being only 4.5 years... about 3 years less than in 2018. But this was an irregularity stemming from the reclassification.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4gLItDh3I1gBT0CQ4G5oGt4aSDAhwPIOKiCk2kQI8cpBMSBoRQH6gafHLi9iNh8iFbgmMMfmEJ02sJoDtYgQuqrBH318MhNiUMQzU51OcSwPKUYvgIm94W_R5HA0av7lvjBqZERpFLv6iaiKyW_PGJbguN79B_JwJzokKNwrIFiJXkLp4QELHVdxgcQIZ/s1876/2019-3to2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="228" data-original-width="1876" height="49" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4gLItDh3I1gBT0CQ4G5oGt4aSDAhwPIOKiCk2kQI8cpBMSBoRQH6gafHLi9iNh8iFbgmMMfmEJ02sJoDtYgQuqrBH318MhNiUMQzU51OcSwPKUYvgIm94W_R5HA0av7lvjBqZERpFLv6iaiKyW_PGJbguN79B_JwJzokKNwrIFiJXkLp4QELHVdxgcQIZ/w400-h49/2019-3to2.png" width="400" /></a></div><div>In 2020, there were only 19 eligibles competed for FP-02. Their average time in class was 4.1 years, and average length of service was 6.2 years. Notably, the average length of service of promotees was 6.4 years, or statistically the same. Still, basically a year longer than last year but still better than "the before times". </div><div><br /></div><div>As for headcount, considering that 8 were promoted in 2019, that's the same 27 from earlier. Without knowing what the current population is, it's not possible to know the exact number of hires vs attrition, other than that they are equal. But we do know that in 2020, there were 7 of 19 promoted to FP-02, so we're looking at next year having the 12 remaining eligibles plus however many FSCEs were hired in the period of Aug 2017 to July 2018 that have achieved their 2+ years time in grade. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLFNzbsPFHHlMEq_SB7sO4YUR8xRlEIr9dk300fBchhfIKjXsNj5qP4R3xwjbW-JMaCpx_bglKlA7qQlpcEh9ATGWnQDBSCdIPdpWSF-1RfYwuAcU76jptnqoYrQcFC9pwdntuTuOIyRbgL8wAmSL-Av7QBVf7H_K9dyQDj4PZBjrrnrxbxkSglkT4RyrX/s2022/2020-3to2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="244" data-original-width="2022" height="49" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLFNzbsPFHHlMEq_SB7sO4YUR8xRlEIr9dk300fBchhfIKjXsNj5qP4R3xwjbW-JMaCpx_bglKlA7qQlpcEh9ATGWnQDBSCdIPdpWSF-1RfYwuAcU76jptnqoYrQcFC9pwdntuTuOIyRbgL8wAmSL-Av7QBVf7H_K9dyQDj4PZBjrrnrxbxkSglkT4RyrX/w400-h49/2020-3to2.png" width="400" /></a></div>In 2021, we see that 6 were promoted of 24 eligibles competed. The average time in class for those competed was 3.7 years, and average length of service was 4.8 years. However, we're now starting to see the average length of time increasing for promotions, up to 5.9 years (a full year greater than in 2020.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This also means 12 more FSCEs joined between Aug 2017-Jul 2018. And with only 6 promoted to FP-02, that means there should be 18 plus any new FSCEs. This is were the trend starts to be a bit worrisome, as there are more people being hired than being promoted, swelling the pool of candidates and potentially extending the time in grade required to promote to the next level. It's important to note that the statistics in the table only report the time in class of the promotees, and not of everyone competed.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX-shE0d90bvkLxSPkraoD4S8Bx9FxEnZKt4Og7fclnKEGXf-HfoIoAgHcGCnhWYVoXwFwRqwV-5-I5aS18Rm33n8bATerCbyGDlw1Et4yrMDV6oYSBWn1u9wUgQGZuyal5zK0aDF3oSOb7Se6rfCMDbil6Q1O4DcgWGCJN0Gf0Rl2UkesK2-6ttjk1PUt/s2024/2021-3to2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="2024" height="46" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX-shE0d90bvkLxSPkraoD4S8Bx9FxEnZKt4Og7fclnKEGXf-HfoIoAgHcGCnhWYVoXwFwRqwV-5-I5aS18Rm33n8bATerCbyGDlw1Et4yrMDV6oYSBWn1u9wUgQGZuyal5zK0aDF3oSOb7Se6rfCMDbil6Q1O4DcgWGCJN0Gf0Rl2UkesK2-6ttjk1PUt/w400-h46/2021-3to2.png" width="400" /></a></div>In 2022, 9 of 23 were selected for FP-02. So at least 7 more were hired in that 2+ year eligibility window to meet the selection board for the first time. The average time in class of those promoted was 4.1 years (roughly 6 months more than 2021). What's interesting about 2022's stats are that the Average time in class of those competed/promoted and average (total) length of service are about a year apart now. This is an indication that there are still hold-overs from the 2016 reclassification action 6 years ago that had time in service before becoming FP-03s. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIxNQI3AGmV384-TOSy9Ymyi76IPLw4YN52_qehC8-ndp1RqMb7ZxU8GXm36drx8PGZ2EcjbbnA8i5emjfvgjd6ZsQX7_w_7hT-dzxSCEV-2nba66MLR89Uh6BNIevLfPpppXx0Q-1IE9oznQHPtCLagmsr4s652QyzJNLnJlmHgeFqiB9kNdtwDByy52S/s2022/2022-3to2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="242" data-original-width="2022" height="48" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIxNQI3AGmV384-TOSy9Ymyi76IPLw4YN52_qehC8-ndp1RqMb7ZxU8GXm36drx8PGZ2EcjbbnA8i5emjfvgjd6ZsQX7_w_7hT-dzxSCEV-2nba66MLR89Uh6BNIevLfPpppXx0Q-1IE9oznQHPtCLagmsr4s652QyzJNLnJlmHgeFqiB9kNdtwDByy52S/w400-h48/2022-3to2.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>In 2023...well, we have to wait for the results to be officially released. </div><div><br /></div><div>[insert 2023 FP-03 to FP-02 chart here]</div><div><br /></div><div>Notice that if you get promoted to FP-02, it’s often a pretty short time to be promoted to the next grade (FP-1), and has taken about 2.6 years for the last two years. But with a growing number of FP-03s being hired and becoming eligible for promotion, that’s a big “if” should the number of promotion opportunities not increase with the number of candidates. Why? Consider this:</div><div>The average time in service of promotees to FP-02 is now around 6 years. If it takes 2+ years to be eligible, that indicates that it’s around the third or fourth promotion panel that people get selected for promotion. Nothing wrong with that, but it helps to manage expectations. </div><div><br /></div><div>Looping back to retention for a moment, these stats are only the percentages for the people who stayed in. My specialist orientation class in 2012 had 7 FSCEs, there are only two of us left. She has been an FP-01 since 2021 and I have been an FP-03 since 2016. But by my totally unofficial count of the people I've known who are no longer FSCEs since 2018 (be it by retirement or resignation), here are the numbers I came up with for you to compare against HR's 2019-2023 plan (Appendix A1):</div><div><br /></div><div>2019: -9</div><div>2020: -6</div><div>2021: -6</div><div>2022: -1</div><div>2023: -3 </div><div>----------</div><div>Total: -25, or surprise, surprise, an average of 5 per year...just like the historical 2014-2018. And it's not like those 25 can be replaced at any level...the majority of new hires come in at FP-03. But given the historical trends, expect to sit there for about 6-8 years before being promoted up to FP-02.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">
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</div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981762691348722011noreply@blogger.com0Washington, DC, USA38.9071923 -77.036870710.596958463821153 -112.1931207 67.217426136178844 -41.880620699999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770325711273461588.post-89700877273361651632023-07-01T12:00:00.036-04:002023-09-13T08:35:58.012-04:00FSCE Job Description in Real Terms<div style="text-align: left;">
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<a name='more'></a><!--Subsection1 !-->OBO has a recruiting video that you can find it at this link: <a href="https://careers.state.gov/aiovg_videos/construction-engineers-in-the-u-s-foreign-service/">https://careers.state.gov/aiovg_videos/construction-engineers-in-the-u-s-foreign-service/</a><div><br /></div><div>If you don't have an hour to spend listening to a teleconference, here's my own anecdotal account.<br /><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><b>Overseas Assignments</b><br />It's right there in the job title: "Foreign Service". At post, OBO FSCEs are primarily tasked with delivering a fully functional facility as close to schedule and budget as possible. Due to the various factors related to international construction of diplomatic facilities, nearly all projects run over schedule and incur some sort of contract modification to the construction contract (using programmed contingency funds, etc)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Daily: <still in draft></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Weekly:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Monthly:</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><b>Domestic (Washington DC) FSCE assignments</b><br />Working a domestic assignment managing the paperwork for construction isn't what you think of when you hear "Foreign Service Construction Engineer", but most will spend 4-6 years in DC during their career. </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>Daily:</div><div><br /></div><div>Weekly: You know that scene from Office Space where Tom Smykowski says "Well-well look. I already told you: I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?" </div><div><br /></div><div>We have a similar situation in DC where the projects send in a Weekly Activity Report (WAR), which the construction executives take and highlight something for the area branch chief to submit up the reporting chain. </div><div><br /></div><div>Personally, I think the weekly activity report from the field could accomplish the exact same thing by highlighting what should be reported up the chain with only minor tweaks to the "template" (it's not really a template, but the content is similar). But it's not my circus, so the decision in DC is to have Construction Executives (who are generally new-hires with less experience) distill the reports from project directors with 10-20 years experience to then be passed up to senior management. See the disconnect there?</div><div><br /></div><div>Monthly: Also, our "TPS Reports" are called PPRs, which are Project Project Reports. We currently track most of our construction details in excel spreadsheets that are pulled into Power BI to create one-page project summaries. But there are lots of details that we're also responsible to know that aren't currently tracked in those spreadsheet, and without the will or technical understanding to tell the consultants what is needed...nothing changes. Most project directors keep a "shadow tracker" of the information which doesn't get reported to DC except when requested. </div><div><br /></div><div>Tangent: TPS reports in Office Space are actually a real thing. The letters stand for “Testing Procedure Specification,” and the reports needed to be filled out for quality assurance purposes, though no one really understood why. As such, they've become a huge symbol of pretentious corporate management culture, and redundancy in the workplace. Office Space turned the TPS report into a life lesson, and they suddenly became the catch-all term for meaningless exercises imposed upon employees by inept and uncaring management. </div>
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</div></div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981762691348722011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770325711273461588.post-27013496320692887432023-04-01T12:00:00.028-04:002023-09-15T09:25:46.134-04:00Employee Evaluation Report Process<div style="text-align: left;">How best to describe the State Department's unpopular employee evaluation process? </div><div style="text-align: left;">"You submitted an entry to the annual short story competition and didn’t use the right words."</div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm not a fan. Anyways, here's what to expect between February and May each year when all meaningful work seems to stop, so that Foreign Service personnel can focus on how best to make a review panel believe that while their peers might be walking on water, their performance was transcendent.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJpjYRpzG7CLrKeFvyhUtsnVUbd7RZenzbQuIKkdZwNUK1sXkR-sixh7yf0MauXaOPDsfPJ2iwwMMYEvarNuL7gHr_-4yHfNOUi75B65l7Cr4NYmT3tjpGrtA3UFr_9fZWi5RDfi0DK6b9YaeEE7UrJeTwhu_8ubFqUZuIVeRFAMt5SJeyurUYznZ7ji4E/s1686/DS-5055pg1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1686" data-original-width="1298" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJpjYRpzG7CLrKeFvyhUtsnVUbd7RZenzbQuIKkdZwNUK1sXkR-sixh7yf0MauXaOPDsfPJ2iwwMMYEvarNuL7gHr_-4yHfNOUi75B65l7Cr4NYmT3tjpGrtA3UFr_9fZWi5RDfi0DK6b9YaeEE7UrJeTwhu_8ubFqUZuIVeRFAMt5SJeyurUYznZ7ji4E/s320/DS-5055pg1.png" width="246" /></a></div><br />
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<b>The Rules of the Essay Contest</b><br />Every few years. the Department publishes "Core Precepts" that supposedly inform what your performance report should contain. Here they are for <a href="https://afsa.org/sites/default/files/2013coreprecepts_0.pdf" target="_blank">2013</a> and <a href="https://afsa.org/new-core-precepts-and-what-they-mean" target="_blank">2022</a>. Additionally, there are all sorts of policy requirements that must be followed, many of which can be found in <a href="https://fam.state.gov/fam/03fah01/03fah012810.html" target="_blank">3 FAH-1 2810</a>. </div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><b>The Submission Process</b><br />Oh, that's a solid double-entendre right there. The Department has been updating its evaluation platform, but that's not really all that important. Generally speaking, the annual performance report process goes like this to complete the <a href="https://eforms.state.gov/Forms/ds5055.PDF">DS-5055</a> "U.S. FOREIGN SERVICE EMPLOYEE EVALUATION REPORT":</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Define work requirements</div><div style="text-align: left;">Supervisor confirms work requirements</div><div style="text-align: left;">Hold occasional interim performance evaluations</div><div style="text-align: left;">Rated employee drafts their own statement and usually provides bullet statements or even full paragraphs to their immediate supervisor ("The Rater") and their supervisor's supervisor ("The Reviewer"). Each portion has a maximum number of lines, and is supposed to focus</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The draft document is now complete. It gets sent to a review committee to make sure that no inadmissible comments are included in the performance evaluation. You can see for yourself just how many there are in <a href="https://fam.state.gov/fam/03fam/03fam2810.html#M2815" target="_blank">3 FAM 2815</a>. The review committee comments are then sent back to the three writers to make changes before the revised draft gets sent to HR.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The finalized EERs are the primary factor in the promotion process, which (like everything else) is currently being revamped with more information to follow.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
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</div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981762691348722011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770325711273461588.post-60086094152827744562023-01-01T12:00:00.015-05:002023-09-15T09:30:00.090-04:00Foreign Service Salary and Benefits<div style="text-align: left;">
The Foreign Service seeks to recruit highly qualified staff, but (in my opinion) does a poor job of explaining the full salary and compensation package. So this post will attempt to address how different the advertised salary is from what is typically paid (both overseas and in DC).The format is <a href="https://www.bollrud.com/2023/04/foreign-service-salary-and-benefits.html#base-pay">Base Pay and Other Income</a> and <a href="https://www.bollrud.com/2023/04/foreign-service-salary-and-benefits.html#non-monetary-benefits">Non-monetary benefits</a>.
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<div style="text-align: left;"><b>Base Pay and Other Income</b><br />The confusion with Foreign Service pay begins with the USAJOBS position description. This applies for both Foreign Service Specialists and Foreign Service (Generalist) Officers. I have another post talking about the differences between the hiring process of those two hiring methods, but this post is focused on answering the important question of "what am I going to get paid once I'm in?". </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So, using a previous <a href="https://www.usajobs.gov/job/649100200" target="_blank">FSCE career field job announcement</a>, this is what it shows: </div><div style="text-align: left;"> Open & closing dates: 04/20/2022 to 05/10/2022 </div><div style="text-align: left;">Clarification: The application windows are around a month long, and occur 4-6 times per year. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Salary:
$72,686 - $143,172 per year </div><div style="text-align: left;">Clarification: This is "Base Pay" only. It does not include locality pay, cost of living adjustments, hardship pay, or account for multiple non-monetary benefits. To be very clear: you will make more than this, but how much more will depend on where you are </div><div style="text-align: left;">assigned. I'll be explaining all of this in a bit, but I pull the info from here: </div><div style="text-align: left;">link: https://aoprals.state.gov/web920/location.asp?menu_id=95</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Pay scale & grade
FP 03 - 04
Clarification: The Foreign Service uses the FS/FP pay scale [link] and the terms "FP-03" and "FP-04" are effectively "grades" like the military's ranks of "Major" or "Captain" (respectively). Unlike the military where the more senior people have higher ranks (Colonel O-6 vs a Lieutenant (O-1), the Foreign Service pay gets higher as the number gets lower. Within these two "grades" or "classes" there are 14 incremental "steps"</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Here's 2023's table (until I can find 2022's). </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA7dqD8uGI0x-hO5FIlZYMkKJzF_l3ZQCO2IPhn4h08YAuIIgTb19KSlZMyt20ebpsmoYr6rihzW1OHunaFh6UoH_4AZuUpSXaNqUsTwXpL_l1uQiZrXeCuwloChG1xT_u2NVK15fT8fVGYBMzrVzsjk58ajyMmE5JtxLZO_yy5uoj19gd2QW1ibU47Q/s2048/2023-Foreign-Service-Base-Salary-Schedule.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="2048" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA7dqD8uGI0x-hO5FIlZYMkKJzF_l3ZQCO2IPhn4h08YAuIIgTb19KSlZMyt20ebpsmoYr6rihzW1OHunaFh6UoH_4AZuUpSXaNqUsTwXpL_l1uQiZrXeCuwloChG1xT_u2NVK15fT8fVGYBMzrVzsjk58ajyMmE5JtxLZO_yy5uoj19gd2QW1ibU47Q/w640-h150/2023-Foreign-Service-Base-Salary-Schedule.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">So, you can see that the actual hiring range is looking at FP-04/Step 6 to FP-03/Step 14...but the high end numbers don't match. why? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Locality pay:</div><div style="text-align: left;">If you are assigned overseas, you have a multiplier of (XX%) on your base pay. If you are assigned domestically, that number changes (link to full list), but in Washington, D.C., the multiplier is (YY%). So do I make more in DC than overseas? It depends. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">At this point in the discussion, it's important to point out that one major non-monetary element of our compensation package is government-funded housing overseas. It's done primarily for security and safety reasons, but it means that our direct compensation package might look 20-25% lower on paper. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So, to recap: </div><div style="text-align: left;">base pay is what all of your allowances and benefits percentages are calculated off of.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Your base pay with locality pay will be XX% greater overseas (and you are provided housing) or YY% in DC (but you have to pay for your own housing).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So, about those allowances:</div><div style="text-align: left;">1) COLA - ranges from 0% to XX%, for the ZZZ posts I have rates for, the average (mean) is yy%; mode is xx%, median is zz% (can i produce a global map with COLA as a heat map?)</div><div style="text-align: left;">2) hardship differential. ranges from 0% to ZZZ. The nicer places generally have 0% because they are not hardships; (can i produce a global map with hardships as a heat map?)</div><div style="text-align: left;">3) danger pay; 0% to ZZZ; includes countries like X, Y, Z. So more than a hardship, there's a potential for physical danger.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Now, as for non-monetary compensation:</div><div style="text-align: left;">1) housing - three levels, with distinctions between with or without family. you won't see this money, but you can think of it as the rent paid on your behalf.</div><div style="text-align: left;">2) education allowance- International schools are quite good, and the tuitions are quite high...fortunately the Department pays the tuition. These are effectively private schools, often attended by the children of senior-level business leaders. Also, boarding school options exist if the kids don't reside with you in-country, which carries a different tuition. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Before I get into the "career-long" example, it's useful to understand how promotions work. Because who doesn't want more money? </div><div style="text-align: left;">a) how long before I'm eligible for promotion? The regulations require two years at grade as of 1 July. this doesn't make much difference after your first promotion which would be effective in November, but it can be really advantageous if you can start your training on or before 1 july. Someone with a date of grade of 29 June 2020 would be eligible to meet the 2022 promotion board, but someone with a date of grade of 2 July 2020 would not be eligible until 2023. </div><div style="text-align: left;">Note: Generalists and specialists have different promotion selection processes, but the eligibility requirements remain the same.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">b) how quickly can I promote? For the entry-level (FS-6 to FS-4), most people promote administratively in 1-X years, depending on where you came in. Starting with competitive promotion from FP-4 to FP-3, you could--in theory--spend a minimum of 2.5 years at each grade and move up from FP-4 to FP-1 in 7.5 years. That almost never happens. ((link to statemag promotion stats))</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">For the years 2019 to 2022 (6 years), the FSCE promotion profile looked like this:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Note: in August 2016, there was a massive re-classification of FSCEs, where all 27? FP-4s were administratively regraded to FP-3 to facilitate hiring new people in at the FP-3 level. This resulted in skewed promotion rates to FP-2 that didn't start to reflect the new normal until 2019.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">For the purposes of my example I'll start with FP-03/Step 6. If you are on any of the steps between 1 and 10, you automatically receive an annual "Wage Grade Increase" (WGI). From Steps 11-13, you would see a WGI once every 2 years. And no, if you spend 2 years at step 14, you won't automatically move up to the next grade. That's a whole different discussion related to promotions. All you need to know about that is that when you are promoted, (use official quote) your base pay salary will be increased by two steps and aligned with the (next higher?) step on the higher grade. ( </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><still in draft></div>
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</div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981762691348722011noreply@blogger.com0Washington, DC, USA38.9071923 -77.036870711.398914804579078 -112.1931207 66.415469795420918 -41.880620699999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770325711273461588.post-69426136774907407472022-12-17T00:00:00.060-05:002023-06-30T17:58:35.713-04:00Vientiane, Laos<div style="text-align: left;">After a significant hiatus from international work travel, my first trip as a construction executive in OBO’s East Asia and Pacific (EAP) branch included a number of unforced errors. The first of which was arriving at the wrong airport (IAD - Dulles) and not realizing my mistake until an hour before my flight was due to depart from DCA (Reagan National).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLe1ic8rIO1Xnt7PrCUrX7bXXIySv7amq43pw7p-0yR5bILX9funTivC_S37n4-kVbTgYxZ6xxvnJJHq8aqZUddTSTb8ypEMGxcYRm75m4Z9hBbcToJJ3h8ui8wwtcaiEVjGcagc4hvOY4vhq2yEvK0WpwH7KhFhqirx4AIfRFrfzRN6ucyw_LpzE_qg/s4032/IMG_2121.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLe1ic8rIO1Xnt7PrCUrX7bXXIySv7amq43pw7p-0yR5bILX9funTivC_S37n4-kVbTgYxZ6xxvnJJHq8aqZUddTSTb8ypEMGxcYRm75m4Z9hBbcToJJ3h8ui8wwtcaiEVjGcagc4hvOY4vhq2yEvK0WpwH7KhFhqirx4AIfRFrfzRN6ucyw_LpzE_qg/s320/IMG_2121.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><b>The plane won't wait for you.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">As you might have surmised by the existence of this post, I did make my flight...barely. For a bit more background, I had only just returned from a week of training in Orlando, FL last night around 10pm and that flight was delayed by a few hours due to an equipment issue. Most international flights depart from Dulles, so that’s where I scheduled my Uber to take me at 3:30am before going to sleep. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">My ride showed up and we made good time to IAD. I tried checking in at the kiosk there but got an error message. Knowing that my final destination in Laos had already caused some issues trying to check in online, I figured it was related to that. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">On hindsight, I probably couldn’t check in at the kiosk at Dulles because my flight wasn’t originating from there. I stood in line for an hour waiting to speak with the desk agent, only to realize at 5 am that I was 30 miles away from where I needed to be (DCA) in 30 minutes before the check-in desk closed there. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Challenge Accepted.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">After some quick mental calculations, I knew that I probably could make my flight, but my margin for error was razor thin. Fortunately, at this time in the morning there isn’t much traffic so the cab got me to DCA right around 5:30. The check-in counter had already stopped collecting checked baggage, but they were able to issue me a ticket. As my checked bags didn’t contain anything troublesome, I was able to bring them all the way to the gate that was actively boarding and check my larger duffel bag through to ICN (Incheon, South Korea). I was on my plane at 5:50 and the doors closed behind me.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote><div>“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”</div><div>― Hunter S. Thompson,</div></blockquote><div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;">The rest of the flights were thankfully uneventful, as was my transfer to the hotel outside the airport. I met up with several other members of the team, including a facility manager I was with in Orlando who didn’t have to stop into DC to change bags because he was headed home. </div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><b>Vientiane American Center</b><br />The purpose of our trip was to support (Am center/American spaces/pao) given the recent establishment of China’s Confucius Center a few years ago at the local university.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981762691348722011noreply@blogger.com0Vientiane, Laos17.9659493 102.611067917.949621846087311 102.59390176230468 17.982276753912686 102.62823403769531tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770325711273461588.post-28166865290431244392022-10-01T12:00:00.015-04:002023-09-12T22:34:28.228-04:00FSCE Career Progression and Assignments<div style="text-align: left;">The FSCE career field has several standard duty titles related to the responsibilities anticipated during any particular assignment. The three most common are <a href="http://www.bollrud.com/permalink.html#anchor1">Project Director</a>, <a href="http://www.bollrud.com/permalink.html#anchor1">Construction Manager</a>, and <a href="http://www.bollrud.com/permalink.html#anchor1">Construction Executive</a>. While there is a Professional Development Program (PDP) for Construction Engineers, it is more tailored to the specialty than the <a href="https://afsa.org/sites/default/files/17-STATE-127376.pdf">PDP for Generalists</a>. </div>
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<a name='more'></a><!--Subsection1 !-->Because the Foreign Service is a rank-in-person structure, your pay doesn't change based on the position you hold (which is the case for the Civil Service). But you still get all the work that comes with a more demanding job. However, the FSCE structure is relatively flat, so on one overseas assignment you might report to someone back in DC, and then they end up reporting to you the next time around.<div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><b>Project Director (PD)</b><br />Typically the most sought-after job for FSCEs, they are the top OBO project person at an overseas post. They are usually also the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) for developing contract modifications and formal communications with the contractor. Additional responsibilities include managing the budget and personnel. The Project Directors are rated on by the regional Branch Chiefs in DC.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">What grade do you have to be to be a PD? Any and every grade at or above FP-3. I was a PD on my third tour (Nicosia, Cyprus) for a small project. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>Construction Manager (CM)</b><br />The second-highest position on an OBO project, Construction Managers are tasked with more of the technical compliance issues, quality assurance, and the technical side of the project. In larger projects, a third FSCE may be assigned as a Project Controls Engineer.</div><div><br /></div><div>What grade do you have to be to be a CM? Usually two grades below the PD, so basically any grade at or below FP-01. </div></div>
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<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Construction Executive (CE)</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Washington DC-based Construction Executive is basically the OBO Bureau's desk officer for a project in construction. Their day is mostly paperwork related to funding and passing along reports from the field. They report to regional Branch Chiefs, who report upward to various directors within OBO. Additionally, Construction Executives are included in the design reviews prior to construction and occasionally sent out to the field to provide relief for PDs & CMs taking R&R. These positions may also be filled by Civil Service employees to provide continuity between FSCE assignment rotations.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">What grade do you have to be to be a CE? I'll be honest here. It's an entry-level position, and while it is useful for learning how things are done in the Bureau, the position didn't always exist. Many of the current FSCE upper management never had a tour as a CE. Since it's Washington, DC, it's also the default location used as a holding area for people when there aren't enough jobs in the field to place everyone. Personally, I think that advances in communication technology over the last decade have made the CE position a bit redundant, considering that the Project Director can do all of the same tasks remotely and with greater detail. Most of my current Construction Executive tour has been in support of projects in the design phase before the construction contract award, as the construction advisor to OBO's domestic Project Manager. </div><div style="text-align: left;">
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</div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981762691348722011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770325711273461588.post-22847770488419624322022-04-01T13:00:00.179-04:002023-09-13T08:43:24.486-04:00Washington DC, Second Tour and FSCE career info<div style="text-align: left;">Our fifth assignment with the Foreign Service took us back to Washington, DC for a second tour stateside. I've decided that I'll write this tour's posts to provide more information about our specific Foreign Service Construction Engineer career field, and am also specifically tailoring them for anyone out there who is considering applying to become a Foreign Service Construction Engineer (FSCE) with the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO).</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvx1Za_lYUktDSK6b2G6VYFD_cbt0Oo_GLUSgoKYIQZwfL0NMWzUmvRRF5JZ2cqFfgXMHchwoZVx9BoAAd5l5CJu6e_5FrgHBk1rMKGPYGguL7WJiXB-xDjQznEhhuyjfp9sOWY4v2YNM6g5-CJY9DcIMfRlmKrfM5qMReXHs-QY9vCYpQq_SY8Gu2fwZb/s1856/OBO-coin.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1856" data-original-width="1856" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvx1Za_lYUktDSK6b2G6VYFD_cbt0Oo_GLUSgoKYIQZwfL0NMWzUmvRRF5JZ2cqFfgXMHchwoZVx9BoAAd5l5CJu6e_5FrgHBk1rMKGPYGguL7WJiXB-xDjQznEhhuyjfp9sOWY4v2YNM6g5-CJY9DcIMfRlmKrfM5qMReXHs-QY9vCYpQq_SY8Gu2fwZb/w200-h200/OBO-coin.png" width="200" /></a></div><br /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is OBO Construction Management Coin</td></tr></tbody></table><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">With over a decade of experience as an FSCE, I'm right in the middle of the pack at OBO. In that time, I've noticed several trends emerging and information gaps appearing that often don't get addressed until after joining the Foreign Service. I think transparency is important, so I'll be writing about what I think you should know before applying for or accepting a job offer to become an FSCE. Bear in mind that things can and do change, so this information is current as of the summer of 2023.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Of course, the pandemic created a lot of disruptions during 2020-2023 for everyone, OBO included. I happen to be in the unique position to be able to compare and contrast what my job was like during our <a href="https://www.bollrud.com/search/label/DC12-14" target="_blank">first assignment in DC in 2012-2014</a> against what it's shaping up to be 2022-2024 and beyond.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">While I've organized this post as a tour summary (<a href="https://www.bollrud.com/search/label/DC22-24" target="_blank">DC22-24</a>), it's more of a platform to delve more deeply into various aspects of the FSCE career field to supplement my <a href="https://www.bollrud.com/2015/04/fsce-faqs.html" target="_blank">FSCE FAQs</a> page. All this info is available for access from outside the Department, but you probably wouldn't know where to look or what it means until you're already on board. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Salary and benefits, with career example...is it worth it to you?</li><li>FSCE promotion and retention statistics from the last 20 years...what do the numbers tell us?</li><li>Assignments, staffing, work culture, and career progression...your mileage may vary.</li><li>What to expect during your first two FSCE assignments (typically two years in DC and two years overseas...but not necessarily in that order)</li><li>Why do people join, and why do they leave? (I'll point you to Reddit <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/foreignservice/comments/14njtfu/to_those_who_quit_why/">/r/foreignservice/</a> for that discussion because I can only speak to my own priorities in this case).</li></ul></div></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><b>Quarterly Posts</b><br />Here are some posts that address some of the more frequent FAQs and feedback from new hires about what they wish they'd known more about before joining:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>July 2022: <a href="https://www.bollrud.com/2022/07/intro-to-obo-your-first-two-fsce-tours.html">Intro to OBO - What to expect for your first two tours as an FSCE</a></li><li>October 2022: <a href="https://www.bollrud.com/2022/10/fsce-career-progression-and-assignments.html">FSCE career progression and assignments (relative to the Professional Development Program)</a></li><li>January 2023: Understanding the <a href="https://www.bollrud.com/2023/01/foreign-service-salary-and-benefits.html" target="_blank">FS compensation package</a> (pay scale, base pay, allowances & entitlement benefits, and retirement)</li><li>April 2023: The annual <a href="https://www.bollrud.com/2023/04/employee-evaluation-report-process.html">Employee Evaluation Report (EER) process</a></li><li>July 2023: What the <a href="https://www.bollrud.com/2023/07/fsce-job-description-in-real-terms.html">FSCE job description</a> means in practice.</li><li>October 2023: <a href="https://www.bollrud.com/2023/10/FSCE-promotion-statistics-2023.html">FSCE staffing trends, promotion statistics, and retention</a></li><li>January 2024: How the OBO organization is structured</li><li>April 2024: The OBO project lifecycle (phases and gates)</li><li>August 2024: Understanding Travel Messages (TMs)</li></ul></div>
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</div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981762691348722011noreply@blogger.com0Washington, DC, USA38.9071923 -77.036870710.596958463821153 -112.1931207 67.217426136178844 -41.880620699999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770325711273461588.post-37531393489962394732022-03-22T09:20:00.089-04:002023-07-01T23:21:27.623-04:00End of Tour Summary - Nairobi, Kenya<div style="text-align: left;">We had originally planned our fourth tour in the Foreign Service to be in Nairobi, Kenya for three years. It got off to a rocky start during the first pandemic summer of 2020, but <a href="https://www.bollrud.com/2022/03/end-of-tour-nairobi.html#safari">safaris</a> were a great place to practice social distancing. Unfortunately, our three-year tour was cut short after only 16 months just as the neighboring countries were starting to open back up for travel. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2vP0d59PCs-ZXQ7dlGzD1x_zyCLfiy-V9RMKrbEUnRYKz1HZNNHGDBhIbIG0VEtmagSAoRXNdcDz21H0z9E2d_dA-CzCvlMg9KEOZ7n-EGhvGgRzmeaGdx0ZC1rGVLlzhWESZiM4ZWsoX3GYPpEmK8pJ2ga8pGiiL8hOO5edyzkAX4_96T1TD-0JunCnG/s4032/IMG_1779.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2vP0d59PCs-ZXQ7dlGzD1x_zyCLfiy-V9RMKrbEUnRYKz1HZNNHGDBhIbIG0VEtmagSAoRXNdcDz21H0z9E2d_dA-CzCvlMg9KEOZ7n-EGhvGgRzmeaGdx0ZC1rGVLlzhWESZiM4ZWsoX3GYPpEmK8pJ2ga8pGiiL8hOO5edyzkAX4_96T1TD-0JunCnG/w400-h225/IMG_1779.HEIC" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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The national park system of Kenya is a global treasure.<br />Here are our stories from our journeys through each of them.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheZ4VKj6usNRoBQy2S6hNiFITTzfV8D3a6GUR6NX1c4-dcP2OtVbcpAFJFPthuFde9GUCOe-EbrhC7UF0d105dAS-ebvnl9TiaLKcSU_qT1bBCPWgjViuVwA78W_UbZlbnl7B20erJCLf2qjjvWl-kABl3jC-pbK97fQN2B8xdWqbeLG6dvC_a2s3vUtyv/s1728/IMG_7407.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="1728" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheZ4VKj6usNRoBQy2S6hNiFITTzfV8D3a6GUR6NX1c4-dcP2OtVbcpAFJFPthuFde9GUCOe-EbrhC7UF0d105dAS-ebvnl9TiaLKcSU_qT1bBCPWgjViuVwA78W_UbZlbnl7B20erJCLf2qjjvWl-kABl3jC-pbK97fQN2B8xdWqbeLG6dvC_a2s3vUtyv/s320/IMG_7407.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amboseli - Elephant Country</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.bollrud.com/2020/11/kenya-safari-parks.html" target="_blank">Overview of the Kenya park system</a></li><li><a href="https://www.bollrud.com/2021/05/kenya-amboseli-national-park.html" target="_blank">Amboseli National Park</a></li><li><a href="https://www.bollrud.com/2021/02/kenya-hells-gate-national-park.html" target="_blank">Hell's Gate National Park</a></li><li><a href="https://www.bollrud.com/2021/04/kenya-lake-nakuru-national-park.html" target="_blank">Lake Nakuru National Park</a></li><li>Masai Mara (the land is spelled "Masai", the people are Maasai)</li><ul><li><a href="https://www.bollrud.com/2021/01/masai-mara-kenya.html" target="_blank">Masai Mara - New Year's</a></li><li>Masai Mara - Air Safari 27-28 Aug 2021</li><li><a href="https://www.bollrud.com/2021/09/kenya-masai-mara-great-migration.html" target="_blank">Masai Mara - Great Migration</a> (Mara Siligi)</li><li><a href="https://www.bollrud.com/2022/03/kenya-governors-camp-mara.html" target="_blank">Masai Mara - Governor's Camp</a> (Naivasha & Mara)</li></ul><li>Nairobi National Park</li><ul><li><a href="https://www.bollrud.com/2021/01/kenya-nairobi-national-park.html" target="_blank">Girl Scout picnic with lions</a></li><li><a href="https://www.bollrud.com/2021/09/kenya-nairobi-national-park.html" target="_blank">Safari in the city</a></li></ul></ul><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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</div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981762691348722011noreply@blogger.com0United Nations Avenue, US Embassy, Off Limuru Rd, Nairobi, Kenya-1.2341602 36.8105228-29.544394036178847 1.6542728000000011 27.076073636178844 71.9667728tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770325711273461588.post-88759480121177191252021-09-26T15:34:00.057-04:002023-06-30T18:19:26.809-04:00Sheldrick's Elephant orphanage<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Did you know that there are organizations that rescue elephants with the intent to release them back into the wild? Baby elephants can be orphaned for any number of reasons (poaching, illness, etc), and the <a href="https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/" target="_blank">Sheldrick Wildlife Trust</a> operates an elephant orphanage adjacent to the Nairobi National Park that offers opportunities to contribute to their mission.</div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><b>Our Elephant Orphanage Experience</b><br />We had family in town, and there's probably nothing more fun for all ages than seeing baby elephants playing. We were so impressed by the operation that we adopted an elephant! In the local Maa language, his name “esoit” means rock. <a href="https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/news/updates/rescue-of-esoit" target="_blank">This is his story</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><hr width="80%" /><center><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Advertisement</span><br /><script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!--Passport Stamp Collector (Responsive Display Default)--><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2337571853096657" data-ad-format="auto" data-ad-slot="9539146150" data-full-width-responsive="true" style="display: block;"></ins><script>
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</div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981762691348722011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770325711273461588.post-20790812070649937872020-11-11T15:30:00.030-05:002023-07-02T15:57:34.847-04:00Kenyan Safari Parks<div style="text-align: left;">Going on safari is an amazing opportunity when on assignment to Kenya, and we were able to visit several of the major national parks and reserves before we had to leave. With 23 National Parks, 4 National Marine Parks, 28 National Reserves, 6 National Marine Reserves, and 4 National Sanctuaries, we knew that we'd have to prioritize. This post also includes a list of <a href="https://www.bollrud.com/2020/11/kenya-safari-parks.html#safarigear">recommended Safari gear</a> that we found beneficial on our trips.</div>
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These are the parks and places that we've been recommended to visit. Will add links as pages are published.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuQ8cBr9Ha1TffILNrfRjiZRUsn2adwY-hH3VFk-EJxH8jcSOhBWc8ChikdKivwnAejRjcx5CRfm0_d0JB7vk-SXJKxyOmYH95LLncwUE5JpkV7XDGUJqCo8bCzyla-qWIlr_jK5mVDfAs/s4032/IMG_1478.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2268" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuQ8cBr9Ha1TffILNrfRjiZRUsn2adwY-hH3VFk-EJxH8jcSOhBWc8ChikdKivwnAejRjcx5CRfm0_d0JB7vk-SXJKxyOmYH95LLncwUE5JpkV7XDGUJqCo8bCzyla-qWIlr_jK5mVDfAs/s320/IMG_1478.HEIC" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">National parks:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>Kenya forest service- parks</div><div><br /></div><div>http://www.kws.go.ke/national-parks</div><div><br /></div><div>With 23 National Parks, 4 National Marine Parks, 28 National Reserves, 6 National Marine Reserves, and 4 National Sanctuaries, there is a wealth of protected areas for travelers to explore in Kenya.</div><div><br /></div><div>Other parks include Marsabit, Oldonyo Sabuk,Kakmega, Mwea, Ruma, Saiwa Swamp, South Turkana, Mt. Longonot, Kora, Sibiloi, Central & Southern Island, Shimba Hills, Chyullu and Ndere Island</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"></ul>Kiambu County<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li></li><li>Kereita Forest </li><li>Ragia Forest</li><li>Kinale Forest </li><li>Kieni Forest</li></ul>Machakos County<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li></li><li>Iveti Forest </li><li>Muumando</li></ul>Kajiado County<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li></li><li>Namanga Hills</li><li>Ngong Hills </li></ul>Nakuru County<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li></li><li>Menengai Forest</li><li>Eburu Forest </li><li>Dundori Forest</li></ul>Nairobi County<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li></li><li>Nairobi Arboretum</li><li>John Michuki Memorial Park</li><li>City Park</li><li>Karura Forest</li></ul></div>
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This is the field-tested list that was updated each time we realized we needed or forgot something</div>.<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>Cameras : know how they work & what their strengths & weaknesses are... (photo & video)</div><div><br /></div><div>GoPro 8 black - stabilized videos, wide angle, and 4K images. Easy swap batteries. Con: no zoom, can’t charge while using?</div><div><br /></div><div>4 smart phones. Medium zoom capable, photo and video. Easy to share. Can be used during charging. Adds geotag info! Con: weak in twilight, grainy zoom videos, shaky video</div><div><br /></div><div>Two canon PowerShot point and shoot (one damaged during safari). Lightweight/ pocket sized. Best zoom lens. Can take photo during video. Con: minimal video stabilization. Extra battery.</div><div><br /></div><div>SLR: currently with the rest of our stuff. Might need better zoom 50-300/100-400? Con: Heavy. Need batteries.</div><div><br /></div><div>Binoculars: we had my old 8x21 bushell hiking binoculars, which didnt meet the standard: </div><div>1) not enough magnification 8 v 10 or 12</div><div>2) Kind of dark (later models increaswd from 21 to 25), </div><div>3) Ordered adision 12x42 with cell phone adapter for next trip</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981762691348722011noreply@blogger.com0Kenya-0.023559 37.906193-28.333792836178844 2.7499430000000018 28.286674836178847 73.062443tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770325711273461588.post-17137004980915801352020-08-18T08:20:00.018-04:002023-07-01T01:10:03.995-04:00End of Tour Summary - Nicosia, Cyprus<div style="text-align: left;">
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We enjoyed our three years in Cyprus. Unfortunately, we weren't allowed to extend our assignment.<br />
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Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981762691348722011noreply@blogger.com0Nicosia, Cyprus35.1855659 33.38227640000002335.0817544 33.220914900000025 35.2893774 33.543637900000022tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770325711273461588.post-78141694265415962682020-03-09T14:05:00.031-04:002023-07-01T00:20:01.165-04:00Assignment: Nairobi<!--Introduction !-->
Just after my TDY to DC, we were given what is known in Foreign Service parlance as a "handshake" for our next post: Nairobi, Kenya. This will be our fourth assignment with the Foreign Service: <a href="http://www.bollrud.com/2015/01/end-of-tour-summary-washington-dc.html">Washington, D.C.</a> was first, followed by 2.5 year assignment as a Construction Manager in <a href="http://www.bollrud.com/2016/01/end-of-tour-summary-jeddah.html">Jeddah, Saudia Arabia</a>. My first full-time Project Director position was in Nicosia, Cyprus, and now I'm going to be the CM for the guy that I replaced as CM in Jeddah. It's a small world.<div><br /></div><div>And I should point out that after the first two assignments, folks are usually <a href="http://www.bollrud.com/2015/03/making-tenure-as-foreign-service-specialist.html">tenured</a> and considered to be "mid-level" and that changes how one goes about <a href="http://www.bollrud.com/2016/12/assignment-nicosia-cyprus.html#assignments">getting an assignment</a>. And, as always, my career field does things differently. But I digress.<div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Flag of Kenya" border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh90S484WjUTN0z6MgO0vMDvP2UvJRBR40W5nRwabEliC9wlVa527C7SjSere-sVrSDcnnM2K6vD0_4qYmpv-7e4-4KtYwi3ktp5E-OCiI59G87fuY99rR_JYtcitTdW7v3ZnTV6WN3G-Ei/w320-h214/640px-Flag_of_Kenya.svg.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flag of Kenya<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /><a name='more'></a>As for the symbolism of the flag, it's pretty straight forward. <i>The Kenyan flag includes symbols of unity, peace and defense of the country. The color black represents the people of the Republic of Kenya, red for the blood shed during the fight for independence, and green for the country's landscape and natural wealth. The white <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fimbriation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fimbriation</a> was added later to symbolize peace and honesty. The black, red, and white traditional Maasai shield and two spears symbolize the defense of all the things mentioned above.</i><br />
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Anyways, here's a little more about the "mid-level" assignment process for Foreign Service Construction Engineers. It differs from the entry-level assignments process in that you can kind of say no, since they aren't directed assignments. You can also lobby the decision-makers, who in this case are the branch chiefs. We also are more flexible on the "stretch" assignments, because there are simply more projects than people so there are always opportunities to take on the more challenging projects. Though, after my project in Jeddah, I was looking for a less challenging one.<br />
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<i>19 Sep 16: Official Summer 2017 bid season starts</i><br />
25 Sep 16: I submitted my Summer 2017 bid list. Pro Tip: Don't put down anywhere you don't want to go because they will say "Well, you did bid on it."<br />
<i>21 Oct 16: Bids due for Summer Cycle</i><br />
<i>31 Oct 16: Bureaus may offer Handshakes to Summer Bidders</i><br />
7 Nov 16: I was officially extended in Jeddah for another 5 months. Previous TED was 4 Jan 17.<br /><br /><div>
xx Feb 20:Received my "pre-handshake notice" from OBO. I had asked to extend another year in Cyprus, but the contractor's performance was so poor that the decision was made to terminate/reduce scope such that my presence wasn't needed longer than my assignment. I consider this my unofficial handshake/notification of intent to assign me to Nairobi.<div>xx month 20: initiated medical clearance process<br />xx month 20: Received my official handshake offer for Nairobi<br />xx month 20: Accepted the handshake offer. requested delayed home leave (in part due to COVID-19 impacts on travel). Required additional approvals.</div><div>x month 20: handshake officially registered. sent to assignment officer to be paneled. </div><div>x May 20: informed that if approved for delayed home leave, it would result in the loss of one of two R&Rs during the Nairobi assignment (not enough consecutive time overseas). withdrew request for deferrred home leave; sent to assignment panel<br />19 May 20: Formal Panel to assign me to Nairobi<br />
21 May 20: TM One issued (xx days after handshake offer)<br />xx month 20: TM Two Submitted<br />xx month 20: TM Two Accepted (7 days after TM Two submitted)<br />xx month 20: TM Two Returned & Re-submitted (Rest stop flight had no onward passage under the plane for our dog)<br />
N/A: TM Three Received (They exist online)<br />xx month 20: TM Four issued (51 days after TM One issued, 29 days after revised TM Two submitted)<br />xx month 20: HHE Pack-Out<br />xx month 20: Final exit visa issued<br />xx month 20: Wheels Up!<br />
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Kaceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974128376051608760noreply@blogger.com0Limassol, Cyprus34.712884 33.16739200000006334.706357000000004 33.157307000000067 34.719411 33.17747700000006tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770325711273461588.post-44892218072213951672019-10-13T10:13:00.023-04:002023-07-01T00:29:29.747-04:00Dragon Boat Training - Torrevieja<div style="text-align: left;">Kacey has a passion for dragonboat racing, and her team went from Cyprus to Spain to train with some elite level coaches.</div>
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There was a first-responder open-house in town, so there were lots of cool toys.<br />
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Kaceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974128376051608760noreply@blogger.com0Torrevieja, Alicante, Spain37.9847003 -0.6808232999999290837.9346428 -0.76150429999992908 38.0347578 -0.60014229999992907tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770325711273461588.post-49087215535064646972019-08-18T08:19:00.026-04:002023-07-01T01:07:22.199-04:00Two Years In: Nicosia, Cyprus<div style="text-align: left;">
During our second year exploring the island of Cyprus, we roamed from the northeastern Karpas Peninsula to the western Akamas Peninsula and southeastern Cape Greco. We experienced the small villages, local festivals, and the natural beauty of Cyprus.<br />
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Nicosia (or Lefkosia in Greek - Lefkoşa in Turkish)<br />
Famagusta (or Ammochostos in Greek - Gazimağusa in Turkish)<br />
Limassol (or Lemesos in Greek - Limasol in Turkish)<br />
Larnaca (also spelled Larnaka)<br />
Paphos (also spelled Pafos - Baf in Turkish) and<br />
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<li>Akamas peninula (Dec 18) with fam/kara beach (with/without fam car stuck?)/polis boat25 Nov</li>
<li>Aphrodite rock 27 Dec 18</li>
<li>4 nov zivania festival - alona?</li>
<li>Famagusta - a bike with nat13 Oct 18, with the fam?</li>
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<li>agia napa tri (w natalie)?</li>
<li>shekalim sailing (general, but on the rescue day of 14 Jul)</li>
<li>Paphos 5k swim</li>
<li>dec night flood-4 dec</li>
<li>Feb - yurts</li>
<li>Feb db championships</li>
<li>project: aug recover chairs 9 August 18 (technically year 1)</li>
<li>Jun 6 - national day</li>
<li>athalass park 25 mar</li>
<li>protaras/cyclops cave 12 jan 19 cape greco</li>
<li>Artemis trail - 1 Oct 18</li>
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<li>Bulgaria: Sophia, monastery, Plovdiv, black sea (29 Apr-4 May)</li>
<li>Greece: Athens, Nafplion 6 Jan, Delphi, Thessaloniki (18-19 May)</li>
<li>Switerland: Zuerich (30 dec 18-jan 8), tobaganning, braunwald</li>
<li>US - Jamestown</li>
<li>US island girls' ears pierced</li>
<li>UK - thistle pods at LHR</li>
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Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981762691348722011noreply@blogger.com0Nicosia, Cyprus35.1855659 33.38227640000002335.0817544 33.220914900000025 35.2893774 33.543637900000022tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770325711273461588.post-11423846253030041362019-08-16T08:16:00.000-04:002019-11-04T07:19:10.564-05:00Karpaz Peninsula and Kantara Castle<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<br />Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981762691348722011noreply@blogger.com0Karpaz Anayolu, Dipkarpaz 9989035.643835487156196 34.55882549285888735.6349079871562 34.53928449285889 35.652762987156194 34.578366492858883tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770325711273461588.post-79823664096415870022019-08-15T08:19:00.000-04:002019-11-03T04:35:04.623-05:00Bellapais Abbey<div style="text-align: left;">
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Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981762691348722011noreply@blogger.com0 Karşıyaka, TRNC35.353155982420006 33.08989261394481235.35234648242 33.088632113944811 35.353965482420008 33.091153113944813tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770325711273461588.post-14473925153523828002019-08-11T10:19:00.001-04:002019-08-11T10:19:16.760-04:00Breaking & Fixing Things<div style="text-align: left;">
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This is post is currently a placeholder for Kacey to write more when she's ready.<br />
The date chosen was the date of the run, and start of the healing process.<br />
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Kaceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974128376051608760noreply@blogger.com0Natalie's Tree in Athalassa Park35.125333311703187 33.39771676304292235.12449081170319 33.395884763042922 35.126175811703185 33.399548763042922tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770325711273461588.post-7524300776260273492019-06-25T18:25:00.000-04:002019-11-03T06:05:16.645-05:00Jamestown Settlement Our daughter learned about the Jamestown settlement during her 4th Grade history class, and we just so happened to be related to someone who could give us a guided tour.<br />
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Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981762691348722011noreply@blogger.com0Jamestown Settlement Museum Building, 2110 Jamestown Rd, Williamsburg, VA 23185, USA37.22479270654037 -76.78387641906738337.198548206540373 -76.842498919067381 37.251037206540367 -76.725253919067384tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770325711273461588.post-63221589223102787572019-05-02T17:02:00.000-04:002019-11-03T04:58:15.692-05:00PlovdivIt’s an artsy town, but I need to add photos and content.<br />
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Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981762691348722011noreply@blogger.com0Plovdiv, Bulgaria42.1354079 24.74529039999993141.947033399999995 24.422566899999932 42.3237824 25.068013899999929tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6770325711273461588.post-82026096925177951842019-03-17T15:17:00.009-04:002023-07-01T00:55:15.014-04:00Agia Napa Triathlon<div style="text-align: left;">Cyprus is an ideal place for swimming, biking, and running. So Kacey competed in the Agia Napa Triathlon.</div>
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