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<p class="MsoNormal">Please find below two job opportunities in my office at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. These both have short suspense dates. Please share with your networks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The following job announcement is for a Prevention of Workplace Harassment (PWH) Specialist, Affirmative Employment Group, Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, GS-0260-13. The job announcement
closes Thursday, March 2, 2023:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The following job announcement is for a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Strategist, Affirmative Employment Group (AEG), Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, GS-0260-13. The job
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As a DEI Strategist, GS-0260-13, the successful candidate will be a principal advisor to the AEG Director on CMS-wide diversity initiatives in support of the CMS DEI Strategic Plan</span>:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Ronza Othman, </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">President</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">National Federation of the Blind of Maryland<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The National Federation of the Blind of Maryland knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind
people and our dreams. You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back<o:p></o:p></p>
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